Steam@LAN

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	BelleH Rush! 13:22 30/9/2003	about time [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Smittins 13:25 30/9/2003	what a shambles :/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Velta Professional Gamer 13:28 30/9/2003	Anything for money [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	AnNuM 13:32 30/9/2003	Thats hilerious. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Valar 13:33 30/9/2003	FFS i'm so queered off by valve its untrue. I regularly have little mini-lans with a group of friends and CS was obviously one of the popular games to play. Notice that? Past tense. WAS. When did Cliffe and co. become part of the "omg just can't make enough money" brigade? You'd have thought they might've been satisfied with how well they've done out of CS in the last few years considering it only started off as a bit of fun? Money-grabbing f*in wkers [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	brutal The Next Generation 13:37 30/9/2003	Money grabbing? They have recieved f*** all for Counter Strike, save for the relatively paltry sum they got for CS retail [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Valar 13:39 30/9/2003	So you think they've spent the last 5 years or so watching CS get as big as it has and they've not made any money out of it or seen any kind of benefits? Nice world you live in, not many sharp edges are there? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Gilga 13:44 30/9/2003	lan centres always had to pay extra to use the game anyway this dont seem any different. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Valar 13:44 30/9/2003	I could write an essay on this, just cba. Valve = sucks. Give us back LAN play u f***s. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fez 13:45 30/9/2003	valve own the rights to cs, hence its gone all f***ed up. cliffe and gooseman no longer help code it [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fez 13:50 30/9/2003	wudnt surprise me if lan tournaments stuck to using 1.5. id be quite happy to stick with 1.5, maybe just moving the new maps over like aztec inferno and cobble. this steam crap is just utter bs, that wud mean the it centre in northampton wud have to pay $400 a month to have 1.6 installed on the computers [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	brutal The Next Generation 13:55 30/9/2003	From Valves stand point, is that such a bad thing? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Smiffeh Game2XS.Monkey Magic 14:02 30/9/2003	why do the IT centre need it they have a net connection? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	acron^ Sector7G 14:08 30/9/2003	Velta you b****** :P Totally ripped off my column! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Velta Professional Gamer 14:09 30/9/2003	Ripped off schroet.com more like :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	acron^ Sector7G 14:09 30/9/2003	^^ = http://www.ukterrorist.co.uk/columns/view.php?id=396 [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	acron^ Sector7G 14:10 30/9/2003	oh balls. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	acron^ Sector7G 14:10 30/9/2003	oh balls. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	acron^ Sector7G 14:11 30/9/2003	fs, Velta can you clean this mess up? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Grom^ 14:11 30/9/2003	fs, what about as valar says small lans with friends or office lans or whatever? f*** this noise. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Valar 14:21 30/9/2003	pld acron^. pro :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Rhyzz Nocturne 14:32 30/9/2003	and so it is upon us. CS becomes pay to play. Pricks@Valve. f*** it, im sure there is some way to burn the LAN version onto another disk, and crack it. UNLUCKY VALVE, KEEP TRYING! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	acron^ Sector7G 14:33 30/9/2003	o/ he even copied my title [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	KungFu 14:42 30/9/2003	1.6! for UKT :o [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Velta Professional Gamer 14:43 30/9/2003	Honestly acron, i didnt even realise you posted a column, i dont check them for a start :-) I got it from schroet.com and 'Steam@LAN' founded like a fitting title. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Valar 14:49 30/9/2003	founded like a fitting title nasty lifp u got there. u fhould go fee a doctor :E [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Velta Professional Gamer 14:54 30/9/2003	f is like right next to s, and im fired. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Valar 15:33 30/9/2003	u not got a D on your keyboard then? or juft uber fat fingerf? :x [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Velta Professional Gamer 15:48 30/9/2003	Nah im just retarded :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Valar 15:58 30/9/2003	/me throws velta a crayon [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Weebull 16:24 30/9/2003	OK, maybe I'm being thick, but are they not saying you can either have steam@LAN by either: Buying seperate copies of the game (1:1 or 1:6 I dunno), or, Paying $10 a month and getting unlimited copies. What's wrong with that? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fez 16:31 30/9/2003	$10 per computer per month & you don't have to buy the retail software howd u get $10 for unlimited copies from that? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 16:33 30/9/2003	Looks a lot like the post on the steampowered.com website. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Weebull 16:35 30/9/2003	whoops, scrap the unlimited copies form that, me being thick there. :/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Weebull 16:36 30/9/2003	But my point still stands. It seems you either buy the game on its own for each comp, or pay $10 a month for each one. Doesn't seem much of a deal to me, but still, it's a deal. :s [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Toomy 16:38 30/9/2003	grom i don't see any of that as a problem, just download steam on each of the pc's that you want to use to play your office/mini-lan on? seeing as either of those aren't "gaming venue's". netcafe managers have to pay for 1 copy of half life per pc as it is at the moment, and if this is for JUST steam (inc with steam is cs/dod/tfc/hl2/future steam supported games) then it'll turn out a hell of a lot cheaper in the long run don't you think... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Grom^ 16:56 30/9/2003	the main problem is firewall/connectivity issues for Steam. It's technically not possible for a lot of places (including ourselves) to download steam onto all pcs and also handle the authentication stuff as well. 1 download of 400MB is acceptable but when you need ~30 of them it gets a bit ridiculous... handling the f***ed-up-at-the-best-of-times authentication is just impossible... It's a shame really. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Baby_Joker 16:58 30/9/2003	Some lan cafes are all ready on a tight budget and now we gotta pay 2 to 300 pounds a month for one game. I hope it falls apart or other companies will be sure to follow suit and if you think big deal charge the cafes, thie is just the begining. Think of it as another "beta test" before theyy do it for home users. They cant charge you to play cs but they can to use steam. I rekon about half the lan cafes will dump cs due to the charge, Other side is to keep it not pay and see how the hell they gonna police the 100+ cafes in the uk and the 1000's world wide. Good Job Valve. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	reddy gameSlave 17:04 30/9/2003	is it not possible to DL the HLDS then connect through console using 'slist' then 'connect 1'? That afaik should let you play on lan [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	t0m 17:09 30/9/2003	dl the steam_cs install file, like 300mb install it on each pc then small update surely not a problem :o) :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	acron^ Sector7G 17:34 30/9/2003	If the LAN has a net connection then it's fine. If it doesn't it's gonna have to shell out or stick to 1.5. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	t0m 17:52 30/9/2003	dont most netcafes have inet D: and if some mates are gunna lan surely they will do it at sum1s house,can see a problem for lans like uprising which to my knowledge dont have inet =:-[ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Abysmal 17:59 30/9/2003	Oh my god talk about a rip off. This is crap, there is so many lans at student unions i go to, where an internet connection isn't exactly on the agenda. Even still, I can see this totally ruining cybercafes, or at least increasing the prices by about 20% :/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	SIE Choke 18:17 30/9/2003	The $10 a month is for Steam and any future games released on it, so they pay $10 a month for every game thats gonna come out on Steam including HL2 etc. The same thing is going to happen to all clients. Also like ppl have said if the cafe has an inet connection then they can just do what clients do now, download the full Steam 700 and odd MB install. It's not all about CS... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Baby_Joker 18:26 30/9/2003	Sie they want to charge cafes no matter what version they use. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	SIE Choke 18:42 30/9/2003	Can u not read? They will be charged $10 a month for every single game that is and will come out on Steam, CS, TFC, DOD, Half-Life 2 and whatever future titles that appear etc... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	SIE Choke 18:45 30/9/2003	The same thing will happen with us, we can either go and buy HL2 and any other future games from the shop or pay $10 a month for HL2, CS2 and future games to come. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Toomy 18:51 30/9/2003	sie where's the credit?! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	SIE Choke 18:57 30/9/2003	www.steampowered.com :D oh and Toomy pointed this out aswell :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	biffster 2seXeh 2perfoRm 19:00 30/9/2003	then it will be $12, then $20 then EA will do it, then .... then EVERYONE will be paying then everyone will be paying $100 or whatever to play games..... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Noah- r4ngers 19:06 30/9/2003	So what about small mini lans with freinds etc? this is utter bulls*** [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	SIE Choke 19:08 30/9/2003	All my 'friends' have cable so i couldn't give a s***! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Rhyzz Nocturne 20:27 30/9/2003	a total joke. Lan Cafe's have already bought halflife, and if Valve want to make profit off CS, stop releasing updates, and release an entirely new game. pricks, pay to play is an absolute joke, and a scam. you wont catch me paying monthly to get crushed by some lamer on a public server. f*** valve [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Baby_Joker 20:44 30/9/2003	Bingo rhyzz. Ive been in the lan cafe industry for 4 years and i have a copy of the lan version on its way ill do a little review to let you all know whats on it. If its works with lan cafes and they do make money your there next target. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Smittins 21:06 30/9/2003	lol rhyzz is a king, give him a little crown like keiju has [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	SIE Choke 21:20 30/9/2003	Some ppl are thick as f***, u gotta laugh. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alpha Da boss Inspired Gaming 21:44 30/9/2003	Blah blah blah, typical "jump on the bandwagon" slagging off of Valve. I'll wait and see whether it's $10 per comp per game or just $10 per comp for steam, but even still that's cheaper than buying a copy of each game for every computer isn't it? As for free mods, why shouldn't the makers get some money for the games if the LAN cafe's are making money off them? If they don't like it that can stick to CS 1.5. Obviously there are still going to be problems for the cafes without 'net connections but with broadband so ubuiqutous these days those have got to be the minority. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Socks Expert RMA'er 21:49 30/9/2003	erm...i agree with alpha, pretty much. People like money and they'll do whatever they can to get it :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Alk^ 23:09 30/9/2003	ROFL scamming c***s !!!!! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	duc digital heresy 14:14 1/10/2003	What makes me laugh is 'all steam games' thats basically halflife and halflife 2 when its out. As valve release a game aproximately once every 5 years it'll work out like buying a valve game every year rather than every 5, and thats assuming every cafe bough halflife 1 for £30. This 'fair deal' should start saving the cafe's money sometime around 2020. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Havors 16:08 1/10/2003	And so begins the death of counter strike. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Abysmal 03:48 5/10/2003	indeed. Its too much money for gamers, the same thing happened to the Q3 community (think i read that somewhere here - but its damn tru). Most gamers only play casually and a subscription will put them off. Oh well, time to take up professional solitaire :/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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