Then just give the ability to make custom hats, that's just fucking ridiculous to block every creative idea people got. More, Valve clearly used or at least inspired themselfs from existing community hats for almost all the first wave. Why worked for money when others do it for free for you. Valve used to be reprsentative of a quality of service towards community, now it's just EA Bis.
2010/5/2 1nsane <[email protected]> > Perhaps Valve is getting ready to sell hats themselves, and as such they do > not want people to get their hats free from servers with a hat plugin. > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Joeri van der Velden < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Why was the functionality removed anyway? > > > > - Clavus > > > > 2010/5/2 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald <[email protected]> > > > > > "Are there any other mods/plugins that are effected by this other than > > the > > > 2 > > > listed on the petition." > > > > > > It breaks anything that wants to attach a model to a player. Not just > > hats > > > or weapons. > > > > > > There is a variety of ways this can be used for creativity and this > > > essentially breaks it, purposely. I usually don't ever complain when > they > > > make changes to the game and break plug-ins, usually those are > > side-effects > > > of them making other changes, this changed was targeted and > intentional. > > > > > > The petition was just an alternative use of my time, either I was going > > to > > > spend time circumventing the existing restriction (which would probably > > get > > > fixed if they kept this policy), or I could spend the time asking them > > > nicely to reverse this policy and get the community involved. > > > > > > Also, this doesn't prevent server ops from issuing overpowered weapons > or > > > other things that drastically affect game play. All that happens is the > > > client doesn't render the model. > > > > > > I wasn't going to post this petition to the list (prefer to do so on > > other > > > community sites), but since it's here I figured I'd explain it a > little. > > > > > > In the end, I hope valve reconsiders. > > > > > > - voogru. > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] > > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alexander > > Baade > > > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 4:54 PM > > > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > > > Subject: Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Available > > > > > > Are there any other mods/plugins that are effected by this other than > the > > 2 > > > listed on the petition. I personally don't care about these because a > > lot > > > of server admins will use the hat mod and charge players for them. It > > > angers me to no end that I have to download a boat load of custom > content > > > and then I cant use it unless I donate to the server. These servers > > > typically go on my blacklist. I could over look this fact but I'm not > > > going > > > to because there are a lot of servers out there who have stolen custom > > > maps/content from my clan and heavily rely on these plugins. > > > > > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Justin <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > https://secure.voogru.com/petition/index.php > > > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Justin Fortin <[email protected] > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Any word on a fix for this yet? > > > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPod > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Msilbys12 <[email protected] > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Sounds like a client problem > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent from the best phone ever > > > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 30, 2010, at 9:24 PM, Matt Hoffman > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >> Yep, crashing on every server I connect to. (As a client > > obviously) > > > > > >> > > > > > >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Justin Fortin > > > > > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >>> So you got everything serverwide working, but it seems like > > anyone > > > > > >>> Jo > > > > > >>> has updated the client will crash when they try to connect. > > > > > >>> > > > > > >>> Sent from my iPod > > > > > >>> > > > > > >>> On Apr 30, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Noel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >>> > > > > > >>>> My Windows servers are both up and running and joinable now. > > > > > >>>> Updates seemed > > > > > >>>> to take a minute or so longer than usual, but no problems with > > MM/ > > > > > >>>> SM > > > > > >>>> running. > > > > > >>>> _______________________________________________ > > > > > >>>> 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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
