Lets hope valve delists them from the MB. Its sad already that those servers
"pollute" the server list for honest players.
To be fair, I wouldn't mind any form of registration by server owners for their
servers. I know that in the past a steam client was needed, and somewhere it
was dropped as a requirement. Wouldn't go as far as re-introducing that, but
maybe simular to the matchmaking requirements? Or some other system to keep the
rogue ones out. There where some replies in the past that some would be
addressed, dunno if that is already done. I'd welcome extra measures to it,
even if we as server owners have to do some extra for it.
>________________________________
>From: Eli Witt <[email protected]>
>To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, 30 September 2011, 12:35
>Subject: Re: [hlds] Servers are absent in Server Browser
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>Imagine that, the master server for people who bought the game will not
>display servers made that allow people who didn't pay for the game to play.
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>Get out of the list already, everyone already dislikes you now.
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>On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Cc2iscooL <[email protected]> wrote:
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>We support non-cracked servers.
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>>Why?
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>>Because cracked servers typically have issues like this that are completely
>>unrelated to any issue with the proper build.
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>>On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Dmitriy Bobrovskiy <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
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>>Ook>> Is he running cracked servers? How can you tell? And what exactly is a
>>"cracked" server?
>>>mauirixxx> It allows players who didn’t buy the game play the multiplayer
>>>aspect of said game.
>>>Saul Rennison> Server-side Steam authentication is effectively disabled, so
>>>players who do not legally own the game with Steam can play.
>>>I agree. It’s fully correct definitions.
>>>
>>>AnAkIn> We don't support Non Steam servers on this list.
>>>First of all I hate this situation. Most of admins have to run so-called
>>>cracked servers in order to have players on them. I have legal copy of the
>>>game 'Half-Life'. I done simple research during an hour: I opened server
>>>browser, connected to various servers and then pressed Shift+TAB to open
>>>Steam Community in-game. After that I navigated to Players->Current game and
>>>saw 'No Steam users reported by game server' every time! Tell me where I can
>>>find Steam servers? I don't know they all is cracked in Steam Server Browser
>>>list.
>>>
>>>If you don't support Non Steam servers who do you support then?
>>>And who 'we'?
>>>
>>>--
>>>Ook> Ignore the list nazis...it looks to me that these are all HL DM
>>>servers, at least
>>>Ook> the ones on the steam server browser. And the last I checked, this was
>>>the
>>>Ook> HLDS list....
>>>Ook>
>>>Ook> right now I see DM3 and TDM2, TDM3, TDM4. I can see DM2 with HLSW, but
>>>Ook> it does not appear in steam server browser and yet there are 20 players
>>>on it.
>>>Ook>
>>>Ook> I don't have a solution, but this happens to me all the time. I have two
>>>Ook> OP4 servers and on HL server, on the same IP, different ports, and they
>>>Ook> seem to pop on and off of the steam server browser at random - and it's
>>>Ook> never the one on port 27015 - that one is always there, it is the
>>>others that
>>>Ook> come and go. And if you restart the server, it appears immediately on
>>>the list.
>>>Ook> For a while...
>>>Ook>
>>>Ook> I've given up trying to find an answer, I just ignore it...strange that
>>>the one on
>>>Ook> port 27015 is always there, where the others come and go.
>>>Thank you for answer! It's great help especially when there are no any info
>>>yet.
>>>Our servers don't appears on the list after restarting.
>>>I think the problem (poping on|off and absence) has two common reasons:
>>>ether servers get banned after some time (because cracked?) or servers don't
>>>meet list requirements for some reason. And I do want find out why.
>>>
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