I don't see how Valve will ever care about community servers, or add any
changes to balance the odds and manage bad communities.
Otherwise they wouldn't have introduced certain changes and/or would
have accepted one of the many discussed ways of improving the situation.
Argument has been made that Valve is a "business". I disagree. A
business would ever so try to maximize their profit. If you look at
Valve's history, almost all games were community games or adopted third
party mods. If they were interested in more and more profit, they would
at least consider keeping the grounds alive that let their future
product emerge and grow.
If you supply a fix for a bug that would save Valve tons of money, you
get a hat of 0 worth. I disagree if anyone says it has a value as a
token, an item of mutual respect.
One could say that Valve is a business because they don't care about
their customers long-term. I disagree. If Valve does anything, in my
opinion it is because it is designed to be a cluttered company where
everyone can do whatever they like. It's an anarchy and madness that
exceeded the bounds of creativity long ago. Otherwise they wouldn't have
to rely on others to supply them content.
A moment of deep disappointment, then I'm just moving on and doing my
thing. I'm sure others think the same. Mind you Valve, at some point you
will have disgruntled so many of your supporters that their helpful
exploit-reporting might just develop into hatred and frustration. If
someone like Nathaniel would show them the finger, they would have a
huge problem. And probably someone will at some point because this will
go on and on.
To McKay:
GJ reminding the mailing list of that response. Few good reads so far.
In the sense that they're repetitive and sometimes entertaining, ofc.
On 03.09.2015 21:05, ICS Staff wrote:
2005, community servers were first party servers, there were no Valve
servers.
2014, community servers are 3rd party servers, Valve servers give you
XP, drops from missions, players get directed only to Valve servers
and community servers are in separate pool completely.
What's next, you take away the drops too or are you really going to do
something to keep us running servers or not? Too afraid to have open
discussion about the matter? Yeah, thought so.
-ics
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