Ultimate Arena Launches CS Section

Posted by Dev at 13:44 19/8/2003.

Ultimate Arena the company with the 'Play Games. Win Cash' motto has added Counter-Strike to its already successful list of games. 10,000 users already compete via Ultimate Arena for money and now Counter-Strike players also have that ability. The Ultimate Arena set up works like this: A user sets up an account into which they deposit money via a credit card and/or PayPal. You then play other Counter-Strike players for money. Sounds good? Well Doug Lombardi the head of marketing for VALVe thinks so too. This is what he had to say:

We know that a lot of Counter-Strike players will love the option of playing to win money at Ultimate Arena. It's an exciting new dimension to Counter-Strike gameplay.

If you are worried about people cheating you out of your money don't fear as all competitors have to have Cheating Death installed on their machines in order to play. For most 'cash' matches there will be a member of staff observing but if you are still worried you are being cheated out of your money there is a reporting feature.

Check out the Ultimate Arena website for information on how to sign up.

Source: CSCentral

Comments

DooMeh
Lite
13:47 19/8/2003
sounds good, shud be a way to enforce u sign up with ur proper name, so u know who ur playin against before u decide to play. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
shads
theb0g
13:48 19/8/2003
holy s*** dont worry about cheats getting all ur money coz super ultra cheatstopping CHEATING DEATH must be used by everyone!!! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
m0rph
Infinity-eSports
13:49 19/8/2003
If you are worried about people cheating you out of your money don't fear as all competetors have to have Cheating Death installed on their machines in order to play

holy c**kcheese batman! Cheating death will SURELY stop all the cheats and allow people to compete for money fairly!

WHAM! BASH! THAWP! KADUNG! MASH! BOOF! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Choke|MaT
Choke
13:50 19/8/2003
you seen how many hacks there are for C-D 4.2 already? it's sickening :-(

The update's only been out for a week or so. It just isnt worth running serious competitions online anymore. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Smittins
13:51 19/8/2003
If you are worried about people cheating you out of your money don't fear as all competetors have to have Cheating Death installed on their machines in order to play.

THANK GOD, set my mind at ease [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
m0rph
Infinity-eSports
13:51 19/8/2003
its ok running competitions which have clans that are proven and dont cheat :)

SEL do it alright on the night [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Choke|MaT
Choke
13:53 19/8/2003
dont they play from lan centres though? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Geordie
Last Chance
13:53 19/8/2003
keiju will rock this ;P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
MadSpunk
Last Chance
13:56 19/8/2003
time to win some money! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
m0rph
Infinity-eSports
13:57 19/8/2003
sel ask 3 or 4 of the players to be playing from a lan cafe, still tho doesnt mean they cant whack a cheaty file on :P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Choke|MaT
Choke
13:58 19/8/2003
yeah it's a lot easily when Stockholm's the only major city in Sweden and everyone lives there, or nearby. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
ColdAsIce
ImaGine
14:11 19/8/2003
With money involved and being played online there no doubt cheats will try there luck. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Loxam
Lite
14:19 19/8/2003
Hehe, I put $5 on to see what its like, servers alright nowt special.

I made like $1.25 upto now from 2 games.

Its not bad + u get an extra $5 when u sign up [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Fox
ClanNEW
14:21 19/8/2003
american servers ? so useless for europeans to play fps games surely? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
blank.
14:23 19/8/2003
or just use the european ones! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
14:40 19/8/2003
teppum plays this :o [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Thorin
14:44 19/8/2003
"yeah it's a lot easily when Stockholm's the only major city in Sweden and everyone lives there, or nearby"

Sweden has a population of ~10,000,000 and only ~1,700,000 people live in Stockholm. ~1,500,000 people live in Gothenburg which is on the opposite side of the country. Both of these two cities' populations combined don't even come to close to a majority percentage of the population of Sweden.

The population of metropolitan London is ~9,000,000.

That means that Stockholm has ~17% of Sweden's population while London has ~15%. Not only that but there are almost as many people live in London as live in all of Sweden.

Time to think up some new excuses by the looks of it guys. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Thorin
14:46 19/8/2003
"while London has ~15%"

of our country's population obviously. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Choke|MaT
Choke
14:47 19/8/2003
point is it's not hard to get 3-4 players in the local lan centre for SEL, whereas the UK doesnt have many registered LAN centres to play from [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
14:57 19/8/2003
http://www.iguk.org/?a=centres [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Sev^
15:04 19/8/2003
How effective is cheating death? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Pimpboy
feo
15:05 19/8/2003
yes myers but how many of these LAN centres are actualy hospitible places and dont use pc's that are clearly has been office equipment [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Pimpboy
feo
15:06 19/8/2003
i games should really demand a minimum spec for their machines and demand all the LAN centres to run winxp [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
ferrers
Sniper's Alley
15:09 19/8/2003
someone with loads of cash restart the playing fields in london :)

now that was a class venue. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Pimpboy
feo
15:10 19/8/2003
i mean judging by popular belief the IT centre is one of or if not the best LAN centre in the country and this is the the new best thing in sweden http://www.sogamed.com/ios/

nuff said tbh [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Loxam
Lite
15:14 19/8/2003
You haven't been to UniCon! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Choke|MaT
Choke
15:15 19/8/2003
not very atm sev [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Pimpboy
feo
15:16 19/8/2003
LAN centres need to be run by millionaire sugar daddies otherwise they just dont make enough profit. Overheads, equipment,facilities all cost money and you need at least 20 pc's that can play games of todays standard and some more that dont need to be upgraded because they can still play last years games.

Where do the swede's get the money to able to keep a place like that in the green in its bank balance?
Your average person who comes into a net cafe is gona be a "gamer" "a person who just wants to browse the net" or very occasionaly a business man but mostly gamers who are usually aged between 16-25 so they wont be spending loads of money at the place. Thats the s*** we have to compete with as a country and its just not gona happen LAN CS will become a little rich kids hame unless we get help from somewhere. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Geordie
Last Chance
15:17 19/8/2003
CGZ is the best in the uk, just up north, and by god u southerners wouldnt travel for s*** [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Pimpboy
feo
15:17 19/8/2003
yeah i havnt been to unicon loxam and ive heard its very nice place but still only 2 places that come even in the vicinity of that place above [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DooMeh
Lite
15:19 19/8/2003
unicon is great apart from its rather small and therefore not so good for big events. i doubt the connection is as good as the swedish ones either but unicon.cs can still get some decent prac there n so cud any other manchester based teams [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Loxam
Lite
15:19 19/8/2003
Yeah,

I gonna visit CGZ soon, i hear its quite good. I think dengor is after some home/away style thing with the Triads and UniCon anyway. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
wLz
fluid element
15:32 19/8/2003
inteeeeresting, u reckon u could pull off some hussling?

/me thinks up a cunning plan [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Smiffeh
Game2XS.Monkey Magic
15:33 19/8/2003
HMMmmmMMm [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Smiffeh
Game2XS.Monkey Magic
15:33 19/8/2003
that clan thing still aint workin ! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
wLz
fluid element
15:39 19/8/2003
black men can't aim stylee

yo moma! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Macca
15:41 19/8/2003
cheating death dont stop all cheats - but it stops alot more than vac [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
kwik^
OnlineSports
15:42 19/8/2003
If you all donate ur pc's i'll turn my all ready pc ridden living/dining room into a free lan centre :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Katori
Choke
15:44 19/8/2003
n1 i'll post you it kwik :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Scrappy
Sniper's Alley
15:44 19/8/2003
Would ya call it the Online Sports Lan Centre.

Ironic :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
kwik^
OnlineSports
15:49 19/8/2003
lol :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
emfive
15:50 19/8/2003
London is blessed with few & s*** lan centres so don't bother arguing that point Thorin. Havn't checked out Harrow Arena however. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Smittins
15:50 19/8/2003
yeh Geo cos getting to London is just a trip round the corner from bristol ;) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
arma
16:08 19/8/2003
CGZ is very very good [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Ablation
contact!
16:16 19/8/2003
LAN cafes in the UK are a joke - the iGames one in Coventry charges £3/hour and has XP 1700s according to its website :| [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Loxam
Lite
16:20 19/8/2003
$3.81 in profit im on a role ;P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
ilic``
Team56
16:23 19/8/2003
my bloody paypal wont let me send them any cash

says that this recipitant does not accept money from non-us countries... ffs i wanna lose some cash to some cheatin fag [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Loxam
Lite
17:01 19/8/2003
lol this is great :P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Loxam
Lite
17:54 19/8/2003
Runnin off the $5 they give me now, withdrawn the starting cash + profit i made back, nearly £4 profit lol [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Messiah
Game2XS.Monkey Magic
17:58 19/8/2003
You'll be able to retire soon buddy [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
dravicus
18:43 19/8/2003
CD aint bad but especially when theres money at stake there will always be cheaters =( [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Loxam
Lite
18:48 19/8/2003
Yep, i closed up shop now having made back my starting cash + £8 profit.

Svr reg just a tad too s*** at times :/

Maybe if im hard up one day I might play a few rounds ;P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Grunt
19:11 19/8/2003
after paying the pros for lessons you can make your money back on this innit [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Loxam
Lite
19:13 19/8/2003
lol, its a perfect system ;P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Dev
theb0g
23:22 19/8/2003
TheFragCafe in Sheffield is a good LAN caf. So is cybercuts in Leicester. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
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