Just opinionating here......
Perhaps the "VACII" timeline is more dependent upon the lawyers than upon the code.
We need something big to happen here and soon.
I have shut down all but 2 servers because of the enormous surge of cheats that have been released in the last 2 weeks. We simply don't have enough mature admins to handle the load. I went into one server yesterday and only one player out of 14 was not using speed hacks (and thus rendering the entire system unstable). So, I banned the cheaters. After I shut down all the servers they like to hang out in.
Perhaps someone at VALVe/STEAM would become concerned if suddenly the source server count dropped to less than a thousand. Why bother running the code if speed hack racing is what the future of Source servers has become?
On the other hand I do appreciate Alfred & the VALVe Team's efforts and attention to these list server messages. Regardless of the cheaters and general hassles, I continue to work on admin utilities for Source servers.
Eventually VACII (or whatever it is called) will come out as will new games from other vendors and the hacker community will, as they always do, run off to harrass the players elsewhere. The hackers like the challenge of the new games more than they like the drudgery of writing hax with trojans for the perverse pleasure of seeing thousands of idiots disappear from the servers when the idiot's hard drives get eaten up. (Death Adder Trojan)
So why don't the game developers use the features of Data Execution Prevention to stop the WriteProcessMemory() calls all hax use anyway? I would immediately upgrade my processor to the AMD FX55 if they did.....
Tony wrote:
You know, it's funny. We were talking about something similar at work (since we all work in IT). That deadlines for stuff people don't want or need are always met, yet with stuff they're dying for, those deadlines are NEVER met.
If I remember correctly, VAC2 was an end of Febuary release. That has come and gone. Weeks away? I can say weeks away and mean 5 weeks.
I'd rather them say nothing at all than give us another crappy time estimate.
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