Yes but now you aren't using the theater metaphor. That's cheating. :) -----Original Message----- From: Gigabit Nick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [hlds] Ingame adds, who will remove them?
-- [ 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
