sure, as the demand at this moment in time is probably pretty low, as there are no major updates, and more than likely everyone who wanted to convert already has...
When *everyone* is forced to update, or they offer HL2 on steam, that will be a completely different story unless they get a lot more serious distributed content servers up and running than they did on the steam/1.6 release. Then again, they very well might already have the bandwidth they forsee they will need, who knows. kev ->-----Original Message----- ->From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ->[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stone, Ken ->Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:04 PM ->To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ->Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] Re: WonID System and CS 1.5 -> -> ->Ive been actually getting great performance from the content servers for ->about the last 5 days. -> -> ->-----Original Message----- ->From: Kevin J. Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ->Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:11 PM ->To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ->Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] Re: WonID System and CS 1.5 -> -> -> -> ->->-----Original Message----- ->->From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ->->[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon ->->Garner ->->Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:05 AM ->->To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ->->Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Re: WonID System and CS 1.5 ->-> ->-> ->->On Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:12 PM [GMT+1200=NZT], ->->tremens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ->-> ->->> And VALVe should cater to "The World Cyber Games Grand Final" why ?? ->->> ->->> When VALVe has FORCED all the other major Half-Life leagues to go ->->> ahead and switch to STEAM, and has also forced them to rewrite their ->->> database that tracks Wonids (now SteamIDs) ->->> ->-> ->->Because it's big and it's a one-off and it's less than three weeks away. ->->And it's a major international event, not your neighborhood online ->->league. ->-> ->->This has nothing to do with changing to Steam, the games will go ahead ->->with 1.5 regardless of whatever Valve does. The question is only whether ->->the world will be able to watch the games with HLTV or not. ->-> ->-> ->->> ->->> I wish they go ahead and use one or the other, but not both. The ->->> longer they draw this out, the harder it's going to be for everyone. ->->> ->-> ->->Why? What difference does it make to you? ->-> ->->Certainly the changeover has to happen at some point, but I can't see ->->any reason to rush it. I'm just suggesting that if no set, arbitrary ->->date has been determined yet, here is something to consider when the ->->date is decided. -> ->I wouldnt worry about it tooo much. With all the problems they have been ->having, not least of which having the bandwidth/content providers, I doubt ->they will force the switch any time soon. IE kill won/1.5 -> ->Remember, they also have already pushed back hl2, and I'm sure ->one of those ->reasons is that they are not confident in distributing it over steam quite ->yet. -> ->my .02 -> ->kev -> -> ->_______________________________________________ ->To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, ->please visit: ->http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux -> ->_______________________________________________ ->To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list ->archives, please visit: ->http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
