the banner slot is a problem. VALVE develope the software, every one knew for sure. but its not the current banner ad provider host the server, or even paid for the server. one of my investors ask me an funny question immediately after seeing that banner. "is your company being sold to somebody else?", they also blame us for banner ad being sold to others without acknowledgement, of course they don't know the details, also none of them know about this list. we may need to withdrawn from the HL business because of this issues, not even from the technical point of view. investors doesn't knew many things, thats for sure, just found it doesn't make sense why the server they paid for becoming the marketing platform of others (may be potential competitors) and we have no control of.
VALVE people please help us reflect the situations. if HL2 continous show this problem, we may have to keep out of it.
i m sure its doesn't matter while banner ad shown for downloading steam content from its own content server. but it shouldn't show up (or at least let us have some control on) while people downloading maps or resources from the servers we paid for something. we are also woking on bf1942 recently even though we host CS since beta5.
chris
Mad Scientist wrote:
Great update :roll:
I see the following improvements:
- When a user is downloading maps and other CONTENT from my server, they are now mislead to believe another company is providing that CONTENT. Meanwhile, I pay for the bandwidth and somebody else is making money off of the marketing. I'm sure glad you fixed that banner slot.
- Flaginfo still DOES NOT WORK in TFC. It's not like flaginfo is very important - it's only the main objective of the game.
I'm too tired to test the other TFC bugs since I assume none of them were fixed.
In other news, after being an exclusive HL server shop for four years, we know have UT2K3 and ET servers in test. They should provide a nice change.
-Mad
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