We are their most valuable asset, but they ignore our opinion about ads and sixty-four bits... (Don't forget they don't make any money off us, letting us earn money for hosting instead.) I advise you to get over it... they gamble on the probability that we will never manage to organize a global strike and turn off absolutely all servers until our demands are met.
I don't know if the ads wander via the server... if they do, set up a firewall and deny access to the servers hosting the ad textures. However, I think the clients download the ads directly from the servers, not eating up your bandwidth. Easiest way out? Prove Valve's decision makers wrong, decide on a date and shut down as many CS servers as possible in protest. My personal opinion: ads on the scoreboard and in spectator camera are alright, but the big posters on the walls are just too much. Why the hell should I think about buying Half-Life Episode Two when I gotta blow up a few crates in some Arabic town? I hope the poster idea never hits CS: Source. ~~ Ondra Nic Strix wrote:
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] we could possibly also use non-vac secured servers (face it vac is crap) and use a 3rd party anti-cheat plugin that bans cheaters there and then (how an anti-cheat system normally works) and allow players who have a cracked version of the game to play WITHOUT adds on an older server. I also very much object to my own clan funded server and bandwidth being used WITHOUT my permission for someone else's ads (I do not sell this service and am entirely funded by donations - valve are you going to donate to our server then?) and I am also under the impression that there is a questionable legality here - are there any readers of this list who have some knowledge of legal matters and could advise us? Valve/Alfred/anyone else - we are your biggest asset - we host your game and without us you wouldn't sell games so why do you do things like this? We also are all players - do you hear our voice? Is there ONE server admin who likes this idea? I doubt it... N
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