you guys might want to change the subject, so that valve actually knows what you guys are complaining about?
->-----Original Message----- ->From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ->[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Judge ->Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:27 PM ->To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ->Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Server update -> -> ->I currently pay for my servers out of my own pocket. -> ->Surely, if people are downloading content from my server, using the ->bandwidth I am paying for, then I should be recieving money for any ->advertising that is being displayed. -> ->Alternatively, you could allow us to display our own banner to advertise ->our own companies and websites. -> ->My tuppence worth. -> ->Matt. -> ->Christopher Luk wrote: -> ->> 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 we may need to withdrawn from -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 ->>> ->>> -- ->>> "A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a ->>> proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." ->>> ->>> – Prime Minister Jean Chrétien ->>> ->>> ->>> ->>> _______________________________________________ ->>> 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
