I enjoy running TF2 servers, I have a decent job to support them but me putting some ads on them so you only view when you join (this is how I had them setup) then why should that shame on me for trying to at least recover the costs of running them. I'm not talking about a profit, I'm lucky to break even every month. I can be trusted just fine to run well managed and fast servers for players to play on FREE, them viewing an ad one time when they join for a few seconds isn't going to hurt nobody and is no different than television companies do with the ads. If you wish to have tags in place then fine but tags shouldn't disqualify my servers from getting traffic be it browser or quickplay as someone else already put it most kids are too stupid to know how the server browser works so you have to depend on quickplay/match making to get traffic to your servers. You can't expect to be able to advertise them on SPUF - you get instant banned for even typing out an IP# or name of servers so a lot of help Valve is in that regard.
-----Original Message----- From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Gordon Reynolds Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 2:32 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Mandatory Team Fortress 2 update released If people cannot be trusted to run a server for a free game without blasting users with ads then I hardly doubt they will play nice and put the proper tags in place informing people that they are about to blast you with ads. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
