On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Frederick P wrote:
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.
Hmmm, I doubt that. CS *was* a cash cow, but I imagine sales figures for it
these days are rather slim. They've got a lot of gear, a lot of bandwidth,
and a lot of staff to maintain. That costs $$$s. Why should sales of new
games continue to support their old one? Obviously because if they got rid
of that support the backlash would be immediate, and permanent.
From: "Marcel Beringer"
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:49 AM
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
Erm, tough! :-) You could always put your own ads on the server to finance
your hardware and connection.
Sorry, I don't want to sound like a valve fanboy or anything, and I
personally dislike having dynamic ads in games that I've played and enjoyed
for years, but if it's a choice between ads, or decreasing quality and
quantity of support and service for CS 1.6, then I'll choose the ads. I
think the situation is quite different from the bf2142 one. Besides, so far
it seems they're just advertising their own products, which makes sense --
1.6 is helping promote the current generation of games.
-Andrew
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