Valve Shutting Down The Multiplayer Servers...

acer_r1 · March 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">..and moving to the oh so spurned Steam?</div> Basicaly what it says, I heard that Valve has set a date of when they will shut down the current multiplayer server so they can move every thing to Steam because they are losing money on 2 servers.......but on the bright side, Steam will have a larger bandwith......

Talnoy · March 2003

oh no.........*beats head against wall*

InfraRed · March 2003

Nah not true at all, and anyway, they could only remove WON.net from HL, they cant go shutting down privately owned servers that dont belong to them. If they did remove WON.net there would probably soon be a way to play HL online with having to authenticate. At the moment a server must get WON authentification before it allows you to join, seems like some stupid rumour to me.

acer_r1 · March 2003

oh yes, im very sorry, thats what i meant, the WON stuff is going down in favor of Steam power....... and who would really try to go through all the rap without WON? people will conform to Steam or be forced to play with bots or lans or something like that.......

That_Annoying_Kid · March 2003

but I usually plan on a LAN, so I don't mind

babygirl · March 2003

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You make it sound like it's going to be some giant chore. No matter what they do, I seriously doubt that what we see and do on the client side is going to change.

And last I heard, steam was just a content delivery system... it had nothing at all do with multiplayer authentication. Where on earth did you hear this?

pardzh · March 2003

Very doubtful.

Steam doesn't support all mods, so they'd basically shoot their fanbase in the face by doing so.

Think about it, until <b>ALL OTHER</b> mods adopted Steam, all you would be able to play would be CS, Ricchochet, or TFC. Now I know CS is a major part of the HL community, but it's hardly the entire amount of people that play Half-Life.

If they're doing it, they're **** off copious amounts of people in the process.

Boneless · March 2003

AFAIK the final version of Steam will be compatible with non-Steam-Hosted mods.

... and Steam will be merely an autentication gateway for these mods.

acer_r1 · March 2003

for you that want to see where i got that, ill post it before 9 pm central, i have to go play CS

Immacolata · April 2003

Still you're too early for aprils fool. So either you're a joker who isn't familiar with calendars or you got some mad inside information that no one else had.

Brutus · April 2003

ummm.... No.

Cowswin · April 2003

I gurantee you even if this wasn't an April fool's joke that someone would come out with their own version of a HL authenticator within a week and skip the whole damn thing anyway. m0oT point <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

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