Everything must be whitelisted and you are required to moderate it for speech, cheating, etc. It's even more ridiculous if you want to run an "official" server. If they had a Linux server I might still make a server with the game set up to my liking and throw it up and see how long before they ban it--because I've barely played that game at all and I certainly wouldn't be moderating much of anything.

Yep, and you must get approved which is done in batches, and so for can't find any setting to even point to another serverlist so that there can be unoffical ones.

That game might survive if it allowed wide open anyone run a server at all with nothing more than just pinging an API to list it on the browser. I wouldn't care if there was a "cheating is allowed" server even.

I mean classic cs and the hl engine and their modded server, I was the glorious days in which we shall not see untill it all falls apart.