Why should they? They have a way to let server operators and players update almost instantaneously. With the way the steam platform works, we become their unpaid QA group. It is a headache for GSPs as well as individual server operators, but is anybody losing money over it? If not, then I can see why they would be hesitant to change their business model.
Look at it this way, and I know a lot of people are different, I bought HL2DM when it first came out. I haven't purchased another steam game since then. Yet I still play that game every night. Valve isn't making any money off of me. They don't make any money off the server operators either. Personally, I think it's a horrible way to do business ... but that would be more from a pride standpoint than a business model. Keeper -----Original Message----- From: SmOoThEm [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 1:04 PM To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list' Subject: Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead Update Available In response to Violent Crimes and his post: This has been a major complaint for years now, valve makes all kinds of changes and must release multi patches to fix the original patch all at the expense of the server owners. I'm glad we all have nothing better to do but update and troubleshoot valves broken patch updates all night long. It's become a regular routine fighting just to get our servers online let alone worry about sourcemod or plugin issues because of changes and updates nobody was prepared for. They remove cvars, change gameplay, introduce bugs, and piss a lot of people off every update with the slew of problems that always seem to follow. Once again I make my own plea, I would recommend you guys do the same. PLEASE VALVE, GIVE US BETA TESTING! You do so for steam client updates and such, it could be done for other products too. Give the server owners a break, allow us the chance to test updates and changes to FIND your bugs before it hits the masses and creates major problems. SmOoThEm _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
