Archived from groups: alt.games.half-life (
More info?)
Peter Lykkegaard wrote:
> "Gil" wrote
>
>
>>If that happened, at least we would be some of the lucky ones who
>>actually played the game. Live for the moment, people.
>>
>
> Come on guys
>
> Wtf
> Do you think Valve is some kind of übermeisster in advanced programming?
> Get out of here
>
> One who follows the discussion in the VERC developer forums will know that
> the Steam content file system is wide open in the SDK
> A very professional modteam has developed a better more efficient content -
> and server system and as such they can play their MP mod without Steam on
> non Steam servers
>
> This give some legal problems for the modteam - obviously
> They will have to add code in order to check that is Steam running and the
> users Steamticket is valid - well that's another story
>
> But the bottomline here is that if Valve goes under it'll be a matter of
> weeks before nonSteam versions is flooding the internet
>
> Hell - you have already a cracked pseudo Steam engine floating around for
> the SP version
>
> - Peter
>
>
All true Peter but I think Gil was just saying 'look on the bright
side'. Looking at his other posts tonight he's just fed up of the
whining same as us. .... I think?
--
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity."
Martin Luther King, Jr.