You have that right, and like I've stated before, I have an opinion, and I will share it whether you like it or not.
I am one of Valve's faithful customers. They have my money. This gives me the right to assert my opinion. Don't like it? Tough. If everyone remains complacent with Valve, then their service will NEVER improve. But you go right on being complacent along with DWN :) Maybe Valve will offer you a job. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of msleeper Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 7:01 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] [TF2] Time out at map change I have associated the name "Karl Weckstrom" with whine whine bitch moan. DWN is 100% right. On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 18:51 -0500, Karl Weckstrom wrote: > Anyone can just roll out "something" to shut up the community. But sadly, > that doesn't solve our problem. > > Look, this is simple. > > There's a bug. > It's a SERIOUS bug that's doing ACTUAL HARM to game community server > perception. > Valve has not confirmed, denied or spoken to its existence, not even in an > effort to keep us informed. > That's it. > > Let's face it - for most, Perception is Reality. If people see servers > disconnect them on mapcycle, they are not going to place the blame on Valve. > They will place it on the server operator. > > It's actually a nice position for Valve to be in :) They can be 100% the > cause of the bug, but we, the server community get to take 100% of the blame. > > Ideally, Valve should say "YES, we know about it, and we're working on a > fix", then we, the community guys, could put nice little posts in our MOTD's > and Websites that explain the situation. Everyone wins. > > It's not like i'm going to take down my TF2 servers in disgust. It's a bug, > they happen, and we just want to know that it's being fixed or is at the very > least on Valve's radar. > > But to leave us all in the dark over this? It benefits absolutely no one. We > all lose. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jake E > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 6:13 PM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] [TF2] Time out at map change > > Hey, VALVe may not over great server support, but the free patches, updates, > and mod support are something, aren't they? > I agree the customer support is crap, though. > > But we can't take their great CUSTOMER support for granted. > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:05 PM, DontWannaName! > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Perhaps because SRCDS is free and not everyone with SRCDS owns the game. > > Therefore, they lose money supporting SRCDS. That is why the community > > provides it and has been doing it ever since CS was released. Now, back on > > topic? > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
