
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
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Lite
13:47 19/8/2003
theb0g
13:48 19/8/2003
Infinity-eSports
13:49 19/8/2003
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
13:50 19/8/2003
The update's only been out for a week or so. It just isnt worth running serious competitions online anymore. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
13:51 19/8/2003
THANK GOD, set my mind at ease [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Infinity-eSports
13:51 19/8/2003
SEL do it alright on the night [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Choke
13:53 19/8/2003
Last Chance
13:53 19/8/2003
Last Chance
13:56 19/8/2003
Infinity-eSports
13:57 19/8/2003
Choke
13:58 19/8/2003
ImaGine
14:11 19/8/2003
Lite
14:19 19/8/2003
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 ]
ClanNEW
14:21 19/8/2003
14:23 19/8/2003
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
14:40 19/8/2003
14:44 19/8/2003
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 ]
14:46 19/8/2003
of our country's population obviously. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Choke
14:47 19/8/2003
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
14:57 19/8/2003
15:04 19/8/2003
feo
15:05 19/8/2003
feo
15:06 19/8/2003
Sniper's Alley
15:09 19/8/2003
now that was a class venue. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
feo
15:10 19/8/2003
nuff said tbh [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Lite
15:14 19/8/2003
Choke
15:15 19/8/2003
feo
15:16 19/8/2003
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 ]
Last Chance
15:17 19/8/2003
feo
15:17 19/8/2003
Lite
15:19 19/8/2003
Lite
15:19 19/8/2003
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 ]
fluid element
15:32 19/8/2003
/me thinks up a cunning plan [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Game2XS.Monkey Magic
15:33 19/8/2003
Game2XS.Monkey Magic
15:33 19/8/2003
fluid element
15:39 19/8/2003
yo moma! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
15:41 19/8/2003
OnlineSports
15:42 19/8/2003
Choke
15:44 19/8/2003
Sniper's Alley
15:44 19/8/2003
Ironic :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
OnlineSports
15:49 19/8/2003
15:50 19/8/2003
15:50 19/8/2003
16:08 19/8/2003
contact!
16:16 19/8/2003
Lite
16:20 19/8/2003
Team56
16:23 19/8/2003
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 ]
Lite
17:01 19/8/2003
Lite
17:54 19/8/2003
Game2XS.Monkey Magic
17:58 19/8/2003
18:43 19/8/2003
Lite
18:48 19/8/2003
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 ]
19:11 19/8/2003
Lite
19:13 19/8/2003
theb0g
23:22 19/8/2003