Yeah, you paid for the game. Thats like 10-30 bucks, depending when you 
bought it or if it came with Orangebox, even more. However, they did the 
game and can do whatever they want with it. As long as we run the 
servers, they dont have to do it. Things would be propablty like in L4D 
where Valve had to run servers because it was unlikely that the game 
would collect a mass of servers like TF2 or CS Source did.And it did 
not. There were times when it was impossible to find a server to play on.

I also know what its like to pay for a gameserver, set it up, keep it 
running at all times and how much time it really takes to keep it up and 
playable with new maps and stuff but thats our choice. It's not like we 
are required to run any servers for this game. I dont know about the 
rest but i do it for fun and because there isn't many people at this 
country who will do it anyways. 1-2 people can make many hundred players 
happy by running a local server for them where to play on. This is where 
i get my own satisfaction and has been as such for over 4 years. Not 
just only for TF2 though.

Valve might buy some of the community maps and they might just set up 
few hundred servers up theirselves but they never will pay us to run a 
server. That dream of yours is never going to do the "deja vu".

-ics

Andy kirjoitti:
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:40:46 +0300, "ics" <[email protected]> said:
>   
>> I don't think Valve sees any of these plugins and mods trivial enough to 
>> give out the updates in advance or any information about them. Servers 
>> run "fine" without them too. If you would be paying customer, things 
>> would be different.
>>
>> -ics
>>     
>
> The last time I checked, we all paid for the game. Also, I don't know
> about the rest of you, but I am paying out of pocket for the hardware
> and hosting for my servers. Valve should be paying us.
>
>
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> Andy
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