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It's a setting for pub servers, get over it. Nobody is forced to use it for competition. Nullbit wrote: > 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
