Again I have to agree, the whole feel of this "beta test" is more of giving CSZ owners something more than everyone else, at first I hoped that release to caf�'s then to CSZ users was a ploy by Valve to stagger the release and save Steam falling to its knees again.
I am also pretty sure that some of the bugs that come with each beta release are intentional ie no comms in the latest as this is something that could not have been missed in a quick internal test before release of the update and something that could have been patched next day if it was yet a week later and we await an update to fix that and bring yet more obvious problems, all the beta tests I have been involved in before for other games we would see nightly builds and fixes not weekly. The appeal of CS and DoD is that you can play on just about any hardware and it runs without to many problems, there are so many copies of HL out there that�s anyone can get a key to play not that it's legit but you used to be able to buy some of the HL packs and get 3 or more keys you did not need all these so 2 friends could soon be playing, this is what helped bring CS and DOD to the masses be it by accident or design. CSZ was a flop they promised so much all that time and delivered NOTHING I would not own a copy if it was not for the fact I run game servers for a living with the company paying for my games and I really need to have at least one copy for testing, I have it install but have only actually spent 5-10 mins playing on the single player part of the game the day it was released. CSZ was the update CS 1.6 should have been, and CS:S is the game that CSZ should have been. But yet again we sit here baffled at what is going on up in the CEO's ivory tower and what they plan next to upset a dedicated community of users as I see them do time after time, year after year. As for this "Beta Test" it's no more than valve wanting to iron out a few final bugs and Offer yet more to the CSZ owners because they shelled out on a right stinker of a game and to try and boost a few more sales probably cause there are still so many copies sitting on the shelf's of games stores that expected to be selling them by the thousand, my local game store in the UK has about 20 copies on the shelf and has done pretty much since its release only selling a handful of copies. Mark --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.768 / Virus Database: 515 - Release Date: 22/09/2004 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
