"Britt Priddy (PZGN)" wrote: > > Steam is going to affect this how? Pay for updates now with steam?
For current games, no. The statement is that when you bought the game it's yours and you aren't going to pay for updates or to play it. But users will have the choice whether to buy the game in a store or buy it via Steam or even only buy online time via Steam in the future. Who owns their hard copy of HL or CS right now will have no extra costs suddenly. > Is > the current way going to be left alone and allowed to continue Yes. > - or is > it going to be forced to "steam"? No. . > > Why would we change from what we're using and use steam servers? Because the server will update itself. If you prefer that over doing the update yourself is your choice, of course. > Would users be able to connect to these steam servers with their regular > half-life/TFC setups Yes. > or is a steam client required for them to connect > and play? No. Right now the CS1.6 *beta* is only available via Steam and thus only Steam clients can connect. CS1.6 will be available as a download as before. > I ask these questions because we will of course stay in the game and > test - I just would like to know where its going and how it is going to > affect the majority of the users out there. Of course only Valve can answer your questions authoritively. But that is what I remember from Valve's earlier statements. I only chose to repeat them here because I'm sick of the FUD. Hopefully some Valve guy will jump in and provide you an official answer to go by. Florian. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
