VALVe Cyber Cafe Program

Posted by Dev at 18:57 5/11/2003.

Some updated information about VALVe's Cyber Cafe Program has been released. Here is the detail:

Valve's cyber café program also protects members against banned or stolen product keys. We understand that it is sometimes difficult to prevent users from misusing your computers or gaining access to the registry and taking the product keys. To help combat this problem, cafés in the program can contact Valve to have their systems "un-banned" and/or to receive a new set of product keys. Old product keys are quickly turned off in order to prevent unauthorized use.
When reviewing the attached agreement you will see the program costs US$10 per month per computer. Remember, this licensing fee entitles you to fully licensed versions of products in the cyber café program and you do not have to purchase the underlying products at retail. With the purchase of one-year licenses café owners will receive a 10% discount lowering the cost per computer to US$108 per year.

So there you have it; $10 a month for each PC that has STEAM installed and the cafe must have at least 10 machines running STEAM.

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	MadSpunk Last Chance 18:58 5/11/2003	hummm more money for Valve then [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Wolfie WanadooWolfie 18:58 5/11/2003	wow $100 min. per month nice on valve! /me cries [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	spicyjj 19:01 5/11/2003	whats that, no more official cs lans ever!! who0p whoop. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Messiah Game2XS.Monkey Magic 19:07 5/11/2003	looks like Lan cafes will be having 1 PC with HL then [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ Anti-saviour of UKT 19:07 5/11/2003	If people actually pay that, valve will get far too much money [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	BArra 19:11 5/11/2003	tazzle who made the weapon name fix before anything "offical" came out has modified 1.6 so u can play it offline.. we're using it for a lan in dublin soon with dNC,suiGeneris and some other ppl [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Sm[o][o]th 19:17 5/11/2003	Well BYOC LANs will be a lot more common now... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MaGiX Prozac 19:25 5/11/2003	1.5 lan anyone? oh hi from florida :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	callous Specster 19:26 5/11/2003	thats about 70 quid a year for 10 pc's ? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Torrad 19:26 5/11/2003	Wow. Valve are turning into a microsoft; Under-developed, over-rated s**e products, distributed by money grabbing greedy bastrds. What a beautiful thing... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	LEEZER 19:29 5/11/2003	bout 800 quid(?) a year for 10 pcs on steam? HARSH. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Magic^ 19:45 5/11/2003	valve pushing the community as far as they can to see if they will be able to get away with p2p IN MY OPINION [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Noah- r4ngers 20:02 5/11/2003	too right magic :/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	NokkonWud 20:11 5/11/2003	LAN's should just host 1.5 or even 1.3 CS then. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Necroboy fightclubclan 20:24 5/11/2003	most games will end like this, cafes just have to start getting used to paying more. I laugh at the cafes who have been illegally using companies games for free, HA. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Jena Blist unicon.cs 20:33 5/11/2003	so y dont they buy just retail for 10 machines it would work out cheaper... i mean Hl is 9.99 nowdays.. 100squid for 10 machines vs 800 for 1 year bollox [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Otis Rush! 20:53 5/11/2003	good point, no one is gonna f***ing check, especially in the uk [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	NukeMasta 20:58 5/11/2003	valve dont choose what version of cs gets played on lan, could just keep it at 1.5. and noone can moan about the shield then [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	polaris church 21:00 5/11/2003	Igames withdrew all activity with CS, so I'm guessing many cafes will do the same. 1.5 will still run at my local cafe, so I'm guessing if they could do it tournaments could use 1.5? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Otis Rush! 21:07 5/11/2003	you couldnt have lan competitions at 1.5 and online at 1.6, it just wouldnt work [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Pimpboy feo 21:13 5/11/2003	so are we ever gona play cs 1.6 on LAN in the uk? ={ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	SIE Choke 21:15 5/11/2003	Remember that $10 per month includes every Valve game that is and will be available through Steam, HL, CS, CZ, HL2 and whatever, so it's not that bad.. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	polaris church 21:17 5/11/2003	Maybe, just a suggestion. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Solid` Choke 21:25 5/11/2003	What about playin LAN's round @ a m8's or anything, they putting a end to that aswell or can you play via a dedicated svr? valve been talking to bill gates methinks [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Game Silent Killers 187 22:00 5/11/2003	mm 800 a year for 10 comps not to bad considering you will get hl2 on 10 comps included an that would be around the 250-300 mark [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	GoRy Last Refusal 22:36 5/11/2003	I dont think so. It says simply "The cyber cafe program". It doesnt say every new valve game. TBH i think you will have to buy HL2 anyways. But i'll reserve judgement. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Far 23:53 5/11/2003	I'd think it would include HL2 since the current list of games included is * Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (available upon release to retail) * Counter-Strike * Deathmatch Classic * Day of Defeat * Half-Life * Opposing Force * Half-Life Deathmatch * Ricochet * Team Fortress Classic [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Seno Puk Kai 00:38 6/11/2003	hope all cafe stop playing cs so valve f***s up n has to make it cheaper... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Samje 09:10 6/11/2003	/me rolls back to 1.5 1.5 was way more fun anyway. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	David Smith Infinity-eSports 09:52 6/11/2003	Think of the revenue each internet/gaming cafe PC earns in a month! $10.00 a month is not that much in comparison, especially when it's CS that helps creates a large part of most gaming cafes revenue streams. Yes it's another cost on the cafe owners head, and will probably be passed down to the end user in the end, so the cafe owner probably won't loose that much as they will make up the loss by charging more to play using their PC's. Cafe owners have ripped us off for years at least now they have an excuse to do so! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Weebull 11:17 6/11/2003	...and the cafe must have at least 10 machines running STEAM. Where does it say that? Not that many cafes run less than 10 comps, but just wondering. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Far 23:46 6/11/2003	Just one major point ... http://www.steampowered.com/?area=cafe_pricing As- Always, Tournament Licenses Are Free If you'd like to host a LAN event or competition, just let us know and we'll issue you a Tournament License, free of charge. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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