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Originally Posted by Powerlord
Server owners are undermining the game's MOTD (Message of the Day) function by abusing it to do things it's not intended to do.
The matchmaking "no reopening the MOTD window" was a warning that things like Pinion are ignoring. We'll see if this escalates farther.
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And players are undermining the game's connect command by abusing it to do things that it's not intended to do. The MOTD window is only supposed to be non-reopen-able if the player joined through matchmaking. Players were never intended to be able to use console commands to simulate this.
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Originally Posted by Powerlord
Actually, no, Valve gets a say in how you run your server, too. It is after all, their game. Then can force you to update servers at their whim and cut abused functions from the game completely. In case you forgot, that's how this matchmaking MOTD block came about in the first place.
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As soon as Valve decides that they don't want ads in MOTD windows and says it publicly, I'll change my tune. Until that happens, it's up to the server operators.
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