-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I'd say it's more like renting a TV & DVD player.
You buy the movie from Valve, you rent the TV & DVD player from the server operators. You can play the Valve movie on the server admins TV &DVD player, but the people who rent you the TV & DVD player can't put ads into the Valve movies. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Subject: RE: [hlds] > Ingame adds, who will remove them?> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:43:59 -0500> > > 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 _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
