When VALVe claims game devs get around $9 per boxed copy of a game sold, I wouldn't blame them for turning down such a large request =)
Every 'blessing' has it's 'curse'
- Bruce "Bahamut" Andrews
Ian mu wrote:
Add up all the games supporting PB and you'll find there's nowhere near as much cheaters not sure what crack people are smoking if they think there's more. No comparison at all. Also there's the other features like screenshot grabbing etc which can catch many of those that get through as not detected yet, plus the global master ban list means its pretty effective. The downside is the extra lag, but thats normally only for the first minute or so when joining a server, then hardly evident.
Don't confuse the amount of people getting caught with the amount of people cheating, if there's no way to detect cheats, doesn't mean they aren't there. PB games look like there's more cheats because it catches so many and removes them. You can't say the same with other games. PB made adminning public servers a blessing.
The philosophy from the game companies is interesting as well. Evenbalance offered their services to Valve for $1 total nominal fee, Valve turned it down. Evenbalance offered their services to Id for free, Id said we'll take them but not for free, we'll pay you a decent amount to do a decent job. I know which company has the best philosophy for me.
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:12:41 +0100, Florian Zschocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Peter Holcroft wrote:
Or you could say:
The only reason HLGuard started to fail, was because Valve fixed a very important file checking bug within HL without warning.
I would even go as far as to say that what CSGuard used as a file checking feature was a security flaw in HL1, which Valve fixed after getting kicked for it from within the community. And while they did it without advance warning they sure didn't without saying so.
Florian
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