Agree in this post! The business impact of this failure is devastating! For 10 years have I been working with SAP! They also make mistakes and sometimes - sadly to admit - big mistakes!
But they who are the customers are - They know that the key factor to success in the long run is satisfied customers! After 24 hours would Alfred's successor (or the successor responsible for the mistake) been apologising for the mistake and in the same moment announced a world-wide roll back of the update has already been initiated on his initiative! And they would (my guess) announce a programme to prevent this types of mistakes together with an explanation of the ideas behind the disaster! If I was the devils advocate and I would like to sabotage the HL2 based servers in order to move players to other platforms would I say that this is the most successful attempt that I ever could have hope to achieve... And I believe a serious investor would see the update in the same perspective. On the stock exchanges would they say, that the management is trying to "destroy value" with updates like this one - coming without a warning and a default value of 1 instead of 0! Because if they could code 3 different options - why on earth would they make the default value of 1 - leading to major drop in the number of servers and players - why not make the default value 0 and combine it with a kind of pop-up that a new CVR is introduced and explain the impact of this CVAR! The investors would probably listen to explanations from Valve but they would see the default value of 1 as a deliberate attempt of destroying their value. My only hope is that an investor with influence would read this thread and punish the Valve top management for this serious mistake! Br nullbit -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af Ghost Sendt: 18. november 2006 00:12 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: [hlds_linux] Counter-Strike: Source and Source Engine Update Released Valve - instead of ignoring us, can you give us some insight? Can you say something? Why are you always so silent? Specifically, I would like to hear your thoughts on: - Is this update _really_ worth breaking so many mods and server add-ons? - Why is CS:S not considered good enough for the CPL? - Why are you adding features that the community did not ask for instead of fixing long-time bugs? - Why do you think that CS:S is played less then CS1.6 even though 1.6 is much older? - Why are you ignoring the community instead of using them to your advantage? (testing, betas, ideas, sales, etc.) - If the community is not important to you what is? - What are your long term plans for CS:S? - Why do you think your solutions are the best ones? I am not trolling for Valve bashing answers from the court. These are honest questions that I have for Valve. I run 3 public servers that together get 60,000+ connection attempts per month and a CS:S community with a website that gets 350,000+ hits per month. My communities users spend money by renting servers (game, web, vent), buying STEAM games (The Ship, etc.) and convincing others to buy CS:S. Yes we are just a small voice but the point I am trying to make is that we are part of the overall community. We are your end users. I will not try and hide my disappointment in the last update but this really sucks. The add-ons provided by Mani make my servers fun. They add choice and switch up the "same old thing". Now that is gone (by default). For the first time I actually started thinking about either just giving up and shutting everything down or migrating to a new game. My decision has not been made yet, I'm still thinking. I guess I just don't understand and am hoping for some honest enlightenment from Valve themselves. Am I asking for too much? Fred Harju aka: Ghost++; aka: very frustrated, disappointed and confused Jason Ruymen wrote: > Updates to Counter-Strike: Source and the Source Engine have been > released. Release run hldsupdatetool to receive these updates. The > changes are: > > ... > Jason > > _______________________________________________ > 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
