Jason O. Washburn wrote:
I've suspected for a while now that we were headed for "pay to Play". Maybe
they are planning on cornering the marked on in game ads to pay for the
future R&D of their mods?
Jason
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Subject: [hlds] Re: In-game ad's
At 02:37 PM 1/20/2006 -0800, you wrote:
its there game no one should be able to slap some advertisements in
their work that they freakin put their time into.
amx_csay "Server hosting courtesy of BigCorp www.bigcorp.com" is
advertising, and a lot of servers do that every five minutes. Valve will
have a real legal hurdle to overcome if they think a spray of a Pepsi logo
on a wall in de_dust is against their EULA and glowing green letters on your
screen are not.
Given the price of bandwidth, and how the HL engine has required
more and more, Valve knew this would happen. You don't build an engine that
can't run on a 56K modem connection or a 256K up /1024 DSL link and not
figure server ops are paying for the ability to host your free server.
- Dan
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How 'bout they make little billboards in the maps like downtown L.A.
streets. This will make them even more realistic. Then make it so
players can go up to them and order take out. You know like a Dominoes
pizza billboard? Then you go up and use your mic, it connects you to
the closes dominoes to your house and you order. Then 1/2 an hour later
*ding-dong* and there's your pizza. Valve could get a percentage and
the server op gets the tip? Cool haw!
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