I've been playing Half-Life: Source and Deathmatch: Source since 2008 (In fact, I have 623+ hours in HLDMS), always being optimistic for updates, always wanting to share my knowledge of the issues of the game to Valve. My time to shine came in 2013 when Valve decided to provide updates to all Source games since they were moving all of their games to the new Source branch (Source Base 2013) because of the introduction of Steampipe. However, this update project wasn't what I completely expected. It was ran by basically 1 man (Alfred) and it didn't really seem like he knew what he was doing with these 2 games. But it seemed he was at least trying to cope with the fact this game wasn't in the best shape as it wasn't maintained. But, around late 2013 to early 2014, the update project was canned, leaving these 2 games to have their beta depot released into the release depot, mean, they unreleased an unfinished build into the public's eye to forever see this as Half-Life: Source and Deathmatch: Source.

I was angry, how could they do such of a thing, so I took it to their GitHub, told them to roll back their games, but no response... they had abandoned the repository, silently. So what could I personally do? I asked someone on my friends list who was friends with a Valve developer to tell him to try to get a word out about rolling back this game, I don't know if the word ever made it to him, but it's clear it probably didn't spread far. I would of tried emailing them, but emailing Valve and having it read is about a likely as you meeting the real Santa Claus. I told the world that they had canned the projects, some people cared, most people thought I was full of shit. So what could I personally do? I did two things, I made a private client of the old build for me and my friends to play and enjoy like we used to, and I made a Update project to make Half-Life: Source the game that should of released (slow progress on that). But that is as far as I could probably ever get, so that's why I'm writing this, I want you to speak out to Valve with me, we want Half-Life: Source and Deathmatch: Source back to the way it was, to prevent future buyers to buy a non-functioning product and to give previous owners a game that does work.

I would also like to offer Half-Life: Source Update to Valve to officially replace Half-Life: Source and Deathmatch: Source to make it a game worth playing.