Not quite. Valve would be selling tickets to enter the theater showing VALVe "movies", once inside they still have to pay us to get into the theater. So they would be making cash on the entry for the 'theater' and for the ad impressions for those who pay us to host their "movie". I hate metaphors.
-----Original Message----- From: Cc2iscooL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds] Ingame adds, who will remove them? -- [ 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
