Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Roman Hatsiev
Seems like you, guys, are trying to make decisions for your community. Personally I'm not going to do anything with my servers as long as my community is playing there. Simply because I spent all these money building community not hosting servers and I won't hurt my community just to express my fe

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread kyle
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I really couldn't care less about what they do with source games or even Hl1mods as long as its not going on inside my server. now if there talking about tossing up adds to players in the server when there playing and interupting game play to sp

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread atouk
This is probobly the worst idea possible for the game. But I'm looking at a different angle than most (unless I missed it. I didn't read every post in this thread), Lets recap a bit and do a quick look into the crystal ball; 1) The people most responsible for the continuing success of the game

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Chad
Enlighten me? Please? kyle wrote: -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] LOL you obviously don't know much about the law chad. ---Original Message--- From: Chad Date: 12/09/06 14:47:36 To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread kyle
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Exactly and that's just one of many caveats that exist in doing business with software companies. Thanks for pointing that out. ---Original Message--- From: Ronny Schedel Date: 12/09/06 15:27:42 To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: R

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread kyle
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] LOL you obviously don't know much about the law chad. ---Original Message--- From: Chad Date: 12/09/06 14:47:36 To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6 here is what came up in the retail

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Ronny Schedel
Such EULAs are not valid in Germany, because you will see this EULA at installation time and you can not give back an opened software package. So, whatever this EULA tells us, it is not valid in every country of the world. Regards Ronny - Original Message - From: "Chad" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread [GS]Admin
Well like I have said in my forums.If they blend it into a game where it's not so obtrusive it wouldn't be that bad.Like making the coke machines on office actual coke machines of ballz machines or making the computers actual dell computers ect.But I can see signs put into the game that look akin

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Chad
here is what came up in the retail cd istallation YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE INSTALLING THIS SOFTWARE PROGRAM. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, YOU MAY NOT INSTALL THE SOFTWARE AND MUST IMMEDIATELY RETURN IT FOR A REFUND FROM YOU

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread kyle
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Right but remember way back when sierra sold thousands of the same CD keys to the same buyers. That was a major screw up, so there are circumstances were Valve can be sued and made to pay for there actions. I'll bet valve/sierra were never sued

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Ben
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] You never buy a game, just a "license" to play it. Well that is how publishers put it now, so I don't think that will work. On 12/9/06, kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > Someone needs to

RE: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread kyle
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Someone needs to look over the valve/steam TOS and see if there is a way they can be sued in order to stop them from being total jackasses and ruining the games we all paid for months and years ago. I mean if we all bought a game and it didn't sa

RE: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Dustin Tuft
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I can see your point, but when was the last time you sat down to play a board game like Risk only to be interrupted every so often by some guy trying to get you to buy a chess board? The fact is playing a computer game is not the same thing a w

RE: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Glenn Dysart
Glad I'm not the old guy here. I'm only 50. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ook Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 13:18 To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6 I quit counting at 45. 50 is w

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Ook
I quit counting at 45. 50 is waaayyy too close for comfort, and old age pains are already moving in. Youth just didn't last long enough, did it? But better to be old, crochety and wise then young and dumb :-P -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] 51. But who's counting. :) On 1

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Biscuits
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] People saying they are older than everyone else on the list are just playing a poker hand. On 12/10/06, HSantal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > 51. But who's counting. :) > > On 12/9/06, Ook

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread HSantal
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] 51. But who's counting. :) On 12/9/06, Ook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Easily. 47. But I'm sure there are a few here that can beat even that :) > > > > > Can ya beat 42?? > > > > :) > > > > > > ___

Re: [hlds] DONT UPGRADE, DOWNGRADE TO WON

2006-12-09 Thread Biscuits
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Roman Hatsiev for one reason or for 2 (:Þ On 12/10/06, Roman Hatsiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Minor amendment to EULA and this project becomes illegal. Better > switch to cracked LAN servers then but be ready to handle enormous > amount of

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Ook
Easily. 47. But I'm sure there are a few here that can beat even that :) Can ya beat 42?? :) ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds

Re: [hlds] DONT UPGRADE, DOWNGRADE TO WON

2006-12-09 Thread Roman Hatsiev
Minor amendment to EULA and this project becomes illegal. Better switch to cracked LAN servers then but be ready to handle enormous amount of shit on your servers. I had this experience three years ago before legal Valve games were made affordable to most local players and I'm not going to jump ba

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Whisper
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I don't think people, and server operators in particular are pissed at Valve in regards to advertising or the concept thereof. Anybody remotely in touch with reality could see this coming a mile away. I think server operators feel, perhaps legiti

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread mjjordan
Can ya beat 42?? :) > > From: "Edward Luna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/12/09 Sat AM 06:28:24 CST > To: > Subject: RE: Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6 > > "... waffling more than John Kerry." ROFL! > > Okay... seriously now. I've seen this all before and you guys are 100%

[hlds] DONT UPGRADE, DOWNGRADE TO WON

2006-12-09 Thread Chad
one word steamlessproject.nl err, maybe two. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds

RE: Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Edward Luna
"... waffling more than John Kerry." ROFL! Okay... seriously now. I've seen this all before and you guys are 100% correct to be concerned but you're also spitting into the wind. The times they are a changin and in-game adds are comin. To quote a phrase oft used by one incredibly sexy ex-Bor

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread [GS]Admin
Well I didn't buy BF2142 due to this.If this happens I will no longer buy VALVe games.Which I currently own most of.And I've been looking for a really good reason to move my 6 year old community to a better game,which I thought CS:S would be nobody played it. So if this happens good bye CS Commun

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Roman Hatsiev
Frankly I fail to see a connection between in-game ads and server hosting as long as we are discussing it from server operator perspective. Am I missing something? On 08/12/06, Saint K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: interview: advertisements coming to cs In-game advertisements are coming to Count

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Dennis
Saint K. wrote: interview: advertisements coming to cs In-game advertisements are coming to Counter-Strike 1.6. Go ahead and let that sink in a bit. CS-Nation has the exclusive first interview with Valve's Doug Lombardi about this upcoming addition into the Counter-Strike world. CS-Nation: Many

Re: [hlds] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6

2006-12-09 Thread Dennis
-- [ Converted text/html to text/plain ] Gigabit Nick wrote: -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] 'Anyone else thinking that ads could be a toe in the water test for giving the game away for free? What does everyone think???' I will bet a million bucks that Valve will not give awa