-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] No, actually they're putting the ads in our theaters.
Selling tickets to the theaters would equate to Valve charging a fee for people to join servers. Just wanted to point that one out. =) On 3/8/07, Roman Hatsiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only difference is that in our case Valve sells tickets to our > theaters... > > On 08/03/07, Edward Luna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Commercials in movie theaters have nothing to do with the movie theater, > they're built into the film (client side). Without the movie theaters > Hollywood has no outlet for their films and without the servers Valve has no > outlet for their MP games. > > > > Bottom line... your server is the equivalent of the screen in a movie > theater. Valve's movie is playing on your projector. There is only one > Valve but an almost limitless number of projectors... those currently in > operation and those that will take their place in the event the current > projectors (servers) drop out. > > > > TBH... it's amazing Valve has lasted this long. The original game was > so good that it's carried them well past what would normally be considered a > reasonable product life. Valve must evolve or go the way of Acclaim > Entertainment. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kevin Ottalini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:45 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [hlds] Ingame adds, who will remove them? > > > > > > One thing I thought I would toss out here is that the in-game ads are > purely > > client-side and servers (and server admins and operators) have nothing > to do > > with providing them, control over them or with being involved with > promoting > > the ads or the ad content. > > > > Even though I personally don't enjoy having non-original content on maps > > while I play, this issue is similar to player sprays except the ads will > > never have any porn or abusive content. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
