I don't see anything aside from a few messages about a large update coming thru this list until after some sorta page is placed up much like the MvM page was thrown up on the www.teamfortress.com page. Basically why is due to everyone again having access to this mailing list and that will mean a ton of "secrets" getting leaked and so on with what is coming down the pipe which will cause SPUF to implode from speculation posts. You lose that secret surprise method of releasing these updates and you lose the speculation, the excitement and days of discussions of what is this and what is that, you lose SALES of items in the Mann Co store which are basically the driving force behind keeping the game free and still supported to start with.
So nope, I don't see anything like this of preview builds, test builds nothing like that to ever be released in the current channels. The only way you can really allow this is to let a select few Server Owners/Administrators sign an NDA with Valve for test purposes under certain conditions which will again require no leaked information of any kind to the general TF2 public. I'd gladly join this but it should require a ton of information such as mailing address, contact phone number or whatever to validate someone is really serious about being involved. -----Original Message----- From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of HyperionGaming.org Admin Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:40 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Mandatory TF2 update released It's nice to dream about exclusive hats, but as many have previously said, it won't happen. There aren't a lot of good multiplayer games that have dedicated servers support with this level of flexibility and freedom these days. Valve is great in that regard. If I had one wish after this weekend's incident, it would be maybe having a bit more communication from Valve and some pre-release builds. They could tell us (like they do now) about a big update coming soon, and release a preview build for us to test on our servers a day or two ahead of public release. They wouldn't have to do this for every single update, just for the major ones. I'm sure a lot of people on this list will gladly test these updates and report potential issues and problems. Then again, I'm not a programmer, so maybe what I'm saying isn't practical/possible. On topic, it seems that this morning's update did fix the crashes. I haven't had any problems so far. Thanks Valve. P. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
