All of those who propose for us to get over our attitudes and to create some kind of peace contract to send to Valve should actually try coding a plugin and take the painstaking time of learning how to hack functions through assembly and memory scanning before they act as if all this bitching is without any merit. Most coding I spend on plugins is not for the actual purpose of the plugin itself, but for getting at things I need available for the plugin. If Valve really wanted to do something about all these plugins that change their beloved mods, then they should implement something such as an optional filter for their server browsers that removes any modified servers. For example an identifier that could even be hardcoded into the plugin which may represent "servers running this plugin will have altered gameplay." But instead they choose to spend wasteful time trying to obstruct our progress through manipulations to the code here and there. Every time a new update is put out, all of us plugin coders have to check whether our plugins still work, and if it doesn't, we get many unhappy users who come to complain to us and pressure us for a quick fix. Imagine having to do that with your mods every few weeks. This is the reason why we bitch.
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