You know, this doesn't mean that the 1 Mb is actually *FREE* of charge. They still have to pay for it, it just has to be available for everyone to buy.

Small time indie developers also get a larger share over at Steam sellings than in retail, which is alone a major risk anyway.

My only wonder is, how much bandwidth Steam really eats per month? Is 500 Terabytes enough?

That pixel snow you refer to is assumed to be caused of GPU overheating while the console is in standby mode (yellow light). As you said, the fan isn't spinning while the WC24 is on so the GPU could do something and then start to overheat due to having lack of cooling. I haven't heard any confirmations to this issue either but i stopped keeping my Wii on when i do not need it.

What? Does Linus use MacBook Air and crapping on it?

None of these are made by actual fucking professional level designers. The custom campaigns, especially the first ones are usually full of shit with few exceptions that you just listed. I'm amazed that almost after a year since the game was released, there has been only ONE actual content update, the new survival map lighthouse. If this game would have been CS Source or TF2, there would have been lots of downloadable content aka NEW MAPS.

They threw us the developers tools - make your own maps but only after 6 months when everyone was already tired of the same old maps and to the whole game. If the tools would have been given 6 months prior from the day they went beta, there would have been a lot more quality custom campaigns already out.

Death Aboard is the most promising one yet - but it has issues. One of them is the low fps. My eyes bleed when i have to look that twitching screen. It is also far too easy to play trough.

That comic as in reply to a solution in every news comments is seriously overrated.

Your domain is your responsibility, just like your password to any site you visit to or any bill you wish to pay. If you do not renew your domain in time, it's your own loss. If the domain really is important to you, this would never happen.

You are allowed to say FUCK here. There is no censorship needed. Infact, lets all say it loudly and proudly: FUCK YOU

I don't really get the idea they are after while blocking internet radios, YouTube videos and other services from people outside of US. That's like shooting yourself in a leg. Do i need to go pirate to listen and hear this stuff on them? Seriously, these people should get their heads out of ass already.

I just lost my faith to Swedish court system. Even though Piratebay is sorta spreading illegal material through their trackers, the hunt of them has been lead by copyright lobby's and firms up to a point where only winning is the goal no matter what means (bribery) there are used.

If i would have mod points, i would put you up in the sky with them. You said everything so well that i was gonna say.

While i know community mappers will have tons of good campaings on the works, they will not reach the same level of quality as Valve maps are for a quite a while. Professional is always a professional.

Everyone expected more content from _Valve_. More campaigns, more survival maps and only thing L4D seems to get is Tools for community to make their own campaigns and survival maps so that Valve can concentrate for L4D2 instead.

However, the L4D2 Boycott group on Steamcommunity (that has around 18% of people compared to the official L4D Group) made Valve to change their mind. Now they promise more content for Left 4 Dead, the original one and promised not to ditch it when L4D2 is out.

I paid 50$ for the game, i assumed that it would get atleast 2 more campaigns before the end of the year + a lot more content than this, for free. Now 7 months passed after it's release and i've seen 1 _new_ map, survival mode lighthouse. Rest are just warmups for the maps that has been played over and over and over again. Then L4D2 was announced and it's not a suprise for me that a lot of people are dissapointed for the current count of DLC.

TF2 has gotten a lot more content since and so did CS Source too. In the first year of their release, there was amazing count of new maps for these games and new features. L4D is way behind in the schedule.

Do you see *any* game developers releasing their engine sourcecodes so shortly after release? It's their product, there is no obligation to release the code. Yes, there are limits what you can do with plugins and mods. However, there are some great games made with these, like zombie panic in which L4D took some ideas. I'm sure Counter-Strike 1.6 sources would be released first but that game is like 7 years old. If any multiplayer Valve game gets their Sourcecode released, that is most likely the one. TF2 is still being actively updated by Valve. It's not going to be "free modded game" anytime soon.

I'd say that Valve is supporting their games currently the most and has the largest community which has many active mappers and mod creators, like Sourcemod which you mentioned. Could you elaborate what you would like to create with Source and why it isn't possible now?

It's good thing that Valve supports the community and shows how they do things. People can learn by just opening the vmf files. In the past they had to decompile the original maps with vmex software but the decompile wasn't always 100% correct. Some Areaportals and such were left off.

Beginners mappers will do mostly remakes as it's rather easy but not all of them are interested of doing something original. These just released files are more inportant to the people who already know some mapping and perhaps have made some work of their own already. Only problem there now will be is the countless remakes of their maps. Some people do not see the problem in this but as a guy who runs TF2 servers or plays a lot of custom made maps, i can safely say that 95% of the remakes will be crap, won't be played on many servers and will have only minor fixes. As the map sizes are somewhat 30-50MB, it's also kind of pain to download the countless remakes since some servers do not provide fast downloads to their maps in-game.

There are some successfull remakes of the original maps too, which incorporate separate game modes. For example Dustbowl was made to Payload map and it is quite successfull. I could see how Granary would become a nice Payload Race mode map with the hands of someone.