lol? i pay money to help valve solving problems with there steaming beast? ok i would - if valve gives me a signature on NOT selling games by monthley fees with steam!
ever heared about a valve - ati - xbox2 - microsoft - windows connection? id software knows about the future - they release the linux client before the win32 client - and opengl is much more powerfull than direct3d is... vavle still has to learn many things... > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag > von Britt Priddy (PZGN) > Gesendet: Montag, 15. September 2003 06:55 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: [hlds_linux] FW: Steam and Content Servers > > > Well - for as many players that play this game - if half of > donated a buck - that would help intice holder of higher > bandwidth to let go of some to get through these first couple > of weeks - most of us - as server admins and hosting > providers - of course we pay for our servers and bandwidth - > but in the short term - this will help save a lot of > complaining clients and in a sense - help everyone. My > opinion. We've invested alot into the servers / bandwidth we > have and sure would hate to see it all fall apart because of > loss of interest over a little more bandwidth needed to get > the games to the people and ourselves. It'd be nice if we > could select the content provider - as some seem very full > while others are just idle or minimal use on their network. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeremy Brooking" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 11:46 PM > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] FW: Steam and Content Servers > > > > Britt Priddy (PZGN) wrote: > > > > >Not people like you I guess. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1. A server running Win2k/2k3 server. > > > > Would have to be a dedicated box, as I wouldnt chance running it on > > any of our other systems. So theres a few Dollars there. > > > > 2. 1GB of RAM or more. > > > > Sweet, can do. A few more dollars there, but its ok. > > > > 3. A 50mb/sec internet connection. > > > > Now this is where it gets pricey. In New Zealand lets be > conservative > > here and say, $100 per 64k channel, thats a cost to me of > $320,000.00 > > per month in bandwidth alone, without including ATM tail charges, > > routers, staff etc... > > > > Forgive me for thinking I should be payed for doing this. > > > > > > > > VALVe should be paying for their own distrabution, not us. > Donating to > > Content providers, I dont think so. VALVe should be paying them. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the > list archives, > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo> /hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
