On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Frederick P wrote:
Well, they are finally here... a lot of negative feedbacks so far... I personally don't see the reason to have in game Ads. People paid for the product, they deserve having a product without Ads. It makes more sense for a Free version of CS 1.6 to be released that has Ad support and also giving an "option" for people to buy the game which will remove the Ads. This is truly annoying. Valve only has vac and authentication servers, Valve isn't the company that hosts the actual game servers for people to play on. I don't see any reason for this idea to be added to Ad unless if it is a marketing scheme to kill off CS 1.6 and get people into CS Source.
Geeeez, this really sucks! I made some in-game screens for you guys to check out: http://zeus.geforce.nl/~mb/cs_ads/ As you can, apart from screen 3, these ads are there when you are playing! So not only when you're waiting to spawn again, but just all the time :( As I have mentioned before, I finance my hardware and server connectivity myself, no ISP sponsoring me whatsoever. I do not need Valve to make advertisements on my server I do expect that they made a server side cvar to disable the in-game ads? Is this legal that anybody knows of? I have a bad feeling that these ads are no more then ordinary spam, it's an advertisement I didn't ask for, so when they try to shove down there ads through my throat without permission they are no more then pethatic spammers in my eyes.... I would like to see a reply from a Valve employee, with ofcourse the server cvar in it which disables there spamming. Regards, Marcel Beringer Netherlands Foute Baas Counter-Strike @ 80.69.78.204:27015 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
