Whooohooo! Kudos to Erik! Thank you for letting us know where you/valve stand on the issue.
I've been in the process of moving the last few days, including my DSL service, and my servers. I haven't had a chance to get to my email for a couple of days... Thank you again for the post. We really needed it. StanTheMan TheHardwareFreak www.hardwarefreak.devastation.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beer for Breakfast CS/DoD servers http://bfb.bogleg.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 10:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Punkbuster > > > > We're coming up on the third year of Half-Life development, > and it's been a > pretty fun first three years. We don't have any plans to stop > supporting our > existing customers, mod makers, or server admins. It's pretty > obvious that > much of Half-Life's success is due to third party > development, and it's for > that reason that we spend so much time supporting them. > > We think it's great the Punkbuster team has championed the > effort to combat > cheating in Half-Life. Working together with the whole > Half-Life community > on any kind of cheat prevention software just seems like time > well spent. > The more people that take up the cause to combat cheating, > and the more > Valve can do to support those people, the better off all of > our customers > and server admins are. > > With that in mind, rest assured that we've talked to the > Punkbuster team and > we're going to see if there is a way to move the Half-Life > engine toward > being more friendly to these kinds of third party anti-cheat > applications. > > Erik > >
