no. i will not pay monthly for counterstrike On 4/13/05, Steve Tilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How abaout the Subscription based model. (eh warcry?) > Pay a few bucks per month to play on a privately owned, operated, and > administered server. > Players that get banned by a steambans style adjudication process lose > whatever they have paid to date. > > We will never know till someone trys it out. > > How many people paid $50 for WoW and continue to pay $15 per month to > play online? > Guesstimate: 50000 players times $15 times 12 equals $9,000,000 per year! > Sweet! (I'm in the wrong end of the business thats for sure.) > > And if you dare to cuss too many times on a WoW system they ban you, > cancel your account, and keep the money. > > I suspect eventually all online games will follow this lead. > > > TJ Hilton wrote: > > >15 myg0ts get on and proceed to voteban everyone else off the goodguy > >system... Myg0t wins again. > > > >-- > >TJ Hilton > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >On 4/13/05, Allen 'Uncanny' Schott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>How about a "Good Guy" system which would work the opposite of a ban list. > >> > >>I would work something like this: > >> > >>1. The player signs up, for free, at a website and is granted instant access > >>to "Good Guy" servers. Supplied info from player would be minimal to avoid > >>issues with the under 14 players and such. Just the email address (the > >>player would have to reply to activate) and thier SteamID would really be > >>all you needed. > >> > >>2. With an Admin plugin, only "Good Guy" players can join a "Good Guy" > >>protected server. > >> > >>3. All players on the server are able to police themselves, when there is no > >>Admin present, with majority votes to kick or ban (revoke "Good Guy" status) > >>with a plugin. > >> > >>4. The players could vote to start a demo on the suspected player (which > >>would be silent, all players except the suspect would vote). Maybe set up > >>the plugin to send copies of the log to the master system for review (to see > >>if the player was just being lippy and pissed everyone off, ect...). > >> > >>5. Revoked players would be able to appeal the revoked status. Set up a set > >>number of times a player may be revoked and reinstated before they are > >>ineligible to be a "Good Guy". > >> > >>I've been thinking about this for months. Now, where are the real holes? > >>Of course, it will be a pain cuz players won't want to sign up, but then > >>again, players who are tired of the hackers might find some refuge in the > >>idea. I think the best part is: The legit players can police themselves. > >>Myself, if I see a player being an ass on my team, I want him gone too. > >> > >>Thoughts? > >> > >>Uncanny > >> > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > >please visit: > >http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >
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