I'm not saying CS 1.6 is irrelevant; I shouldn't have compared it to
Quake 2 and that was my mistake. Yes, CS 1.6 is hugely popular
worldwide, and yes, it's still a great game. But Valve is in the
business of making money, and how much does Valve make off of CS 1.6
these days compared to its other products? Probably not much. I think
this game has become a monkey on Valve's back, so to speak. It's still
very popular and it has a tremendous following, but the actual revenue
they bring in from it is small. Most software companies don't support
their products nearly as long Valve has been supporting CS.
That's why I'm saying that we're lucky they even work on it at all.
They could just as easily throw their hands up in the air and say
they're done working on it. People would still buy new games, Valve
would continue to make money, and we would be stuck with bugs that will
never get fixed. So, instead of insulting them for not doing this work
sooner, it seems like we should be thanking them for doing this work at
all. We're not paying them to use the game once we've bought it, and
we're not paying them for the server stuff at all.
On 07/26/2011 01:48 PM, ics wrote:
One sentence. Mann Co Store ingame. More money than cs 1.6 buyers bring in.
-ics
26.7.2011 20:43, C Szabo kirjoitti:
TF2 is only bigger becuse its free. So they should stop support TF2
when they dont even make money on it? :P
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:24:49 +0300
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Half-Life 1 engine beta update released
Ok, I understand you, but Counter-Strike was the most played game in
The STEAM before TF2 F2P, and now it is in second place, so VALVe
SHOULD release bugfixes and support this game, and I think this game
is most popular First Person Shooter in The World, because there are
a lot of non-steam players, thousands of them ...
Quoting *David A. Parker<[email protected]> [1]*:
I don't want to get into a flame war here, but seriously, Counter
Strike
is how old now? I think we're lucky that Valve is still putting
effort
into it, and insulting Alfred for doing this work now instead of
two
years ago isn't productive. I'm sure everyone at Valve, including
Alfred, has better (and more profitable) things to work on in the
last
few years. Complaining to Valve about the lack of fixes in CS is
like
complaining to id Software about a bug in Quake 2. It doesn't even
make
sense.
- Dave
On 07/26/2011 12:57 PM, Janis Petrovs wrote:
>
> Did you read this bug with +voicerecord(voicecomm)? And what
about
> cs_siege bug with "concert hall" sound? After this map I
have to
> restart my CS to get back normal sound. Also "Internet List"
is full
> with Fake Servers, please ban these servers or block.
Counter-strike
> is going down because VALVe don't fix bugs, Ok now Alfred is
doing
> something after two years of doing nothing... I think VALVe
need to
> shame ...
> Quoting *Janis Petrovs<[email protected]> [1]*:
>> Good update, now setmaster work correct, but now there is
problem
>> with voicecomm, when player join server, it works but
after some
>> time it doesn't, so players can't use voicecomm, please
fix this as
>> fast as you can, players are asking me why they can't
speak.
>>
>> Quoting *Alfred Reynolds<[email protected]>
[2]*:
>>> We have released an update to the beta, run the
hldsupdatetool with
>>> "-beta hlbeta" to get this update. Changes for this
update are:
>>>
>>> - fixed failing to load steam interfaces on windows
(updated
>>> steamclient binaries) (win32)
>>> - statically linked libsteam.so to libstdc++ so you
don't need to
>>> update it (linux)
>>>
>>> Let us see if this one sticks.
>>>
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