UKTerrorist
Posted by Dev at 13:41 23/1/2003.
Halflife.org have written a spanker of an article about STEAM. The article is very long and detailed but worth the read. Here is a little extract:It all began in the first month of 2003 when Counter-Strike 1.6 was going to be released to Steam users. Meaning anyone who had a Steam account would automatically receive Counter-Strike 1.6 (along with the new version of TFC) instantly! This was Steam's chance to make it big in the Half-Life community, but soon enough "everything hit the fan". Well it seemed that someone miscalculated the amount of bandwidth the Steam servers would consume and the Steam servers maxed out! On January 16 the Counter-Strike 1.6 and the TFC update was suspended and thousands of Steam users were "outa luck!". Steam certainly made a huge mistake and was obviously not ready for a public release, can you say "Public humiliation"? On top of that Steam users had to download the full version of Counter-Strike (409 MB!!!) in order to get the new 1.6 version; no wonder the Server's maxed out!Read the article here.
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13:44 23/1/2003
13:46 23/1/2003
"spanker" - must use that word more often [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
14:02 23/1/2003
Anti-saviour of UKT
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15:28 23/1/2003
maxed out! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
15:31 23/1/2003
I think Valve believes that people are starting to forget who started Half-Life and is trying to regain their power
lol [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
15:33 23/1/2003
My Note to Valve: "Think before you do!" you guys are all jokers!
consistency central yo [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
15:49 23/1/2003
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17:01 23/1/2003
That's why this is Steam 2.0... [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
theb0g
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19:31 23/1/2003
I honestly think it will end up subscription one day.
Plus money changes everything so im sure if valve said gooseman here is x% of the profit we are making cs a monthly subscription game hed be like cha ching! :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
theb0g
19:45 23/1/2003
19:58 23/1/2003
If it were based upon subscription I'd go back to playing it. As long as they went back to 1.3
The game itself has been battered beyond recognition and spawned a bread of players that are not worth the doggy dirt on my Nike Airs.
Apart from the Pro circuit 90% of CS players are idiots with over inflated opinions of themselves and their skills.
Frankly I'm very happy the latest version of CS has been delayed.
You can bet as soon as it is released all of you will start complaining about some aspect of the latest release. The longer it is withheld the better!
Steam going down can only be considered a good point in my opinion. At least it keeps you lot from complaining for five minutes.
Saying that your complaining about it not being here and when it gets here you will complain about it being here. What a joke the CS community has become. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
20:02 23/1/2003
and cs is a 100 times more popular than these.
you may not pay for it but i gaurantee an awful lot would, world wide. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Da boss
Inspired Gaming
20:11 23/1/2003
The Steam release was a beta test of the system, there was nothing forcing you to use it. CS 1.6 will be released as a normal downloadable patch at some point anyway. Valve don't need to "remind people who made Half-Life", so implying that they're releasing these things just for that is silly. I'm not quite sure how they expected Steam to cope with tens of thousands of people suddenly trying to download several hundred MB off them, but apart from that I think the only thing they did wrong was not delaying the Steam beta until the release of the proper patch (so a simultaneous release). All this "Valve-hate" is pretty pathetic. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Da boss
Inspired Gaming
20:13 23/1/2003
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20:19 23/1/2003
Unfortunately.. wc3 is even worse - attitude wise again .. than cs.
it seems this country has a curse; in which all english gamers must act like f***ing losers ..oh well </rant> [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
20:41 23/1/2003
I personally think its a good idea if they can cope with all the demands of bandwidth...
CS won't be made pay per play, as has been said, DAoC is an evolving game, which is why it is pay per play. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
21:22 23/1/2003
Lite
21:44 23/1/2003
... lol [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
theb0g
22:02 23/1/2003
Thats funny because it HAS changed, it was NOT like this in beta 3 and 4. You chould join a wp server and know everyone on it, 80% of whom would be sound. Its changed so much with the growth of the game. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
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22:17 23/1/2003
So sad but true. The UK CS scene is a crying shame. It once used to be something many ol-skool players were proud to be a part of but now it's something most of us are ashamed of. I can't speak for the team behind the original game but I can seek for a great deal of players who played CS while it remained underground and out of reach of the '12 yr old publess f****ts who b***h and moan for the fun of it'.
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Yeah I'm posting anonymously, reason being I no longer want to be associated with 'CURRENT' UK CS scene. But still my interest is drawn to discussions like this; such is life eh. hehe. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
22:39 23/1/2003
id like to complain about this [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Rush!
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08:20 24/1/2003
your missing the point.
right froom the start cs has been plauged by certain elements in the uk, such as cheaters etc. Now obviously there are still some of the oldschool peeps still around - those of which are some of the funniest people you would ever meet, never moan and just get on with the f***ing game. I miss the days were you could just join the ukla server and have a laugh. Now its to look 'pro', own everyone ... and to take the p*** out of the noobs who cant aim. These 'elements' need to f***ing take a look at some of the 'oldskool' people and take a note, cus the amount of bs that comes out of these losers mouths is disgusting. That about rounds of uk cs in general.
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theb0g
09:56 24/1/2003
theb0g
11:31 24/1/2003
Oh and cheating is a bad example it has been prominent everywhere since the begining of time :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
12:03 24/1/2003