Valve Can @#$@#%@#% Me

[MrVicchio]

Lets see.. Today was the long awaited CS 1.6 LAUNCH!! WOOT WOOT WOOT!

It also was the first CS update purely by thier UPDATED STEAM 2.0!!!

Check this out...

They had 500meg Pipe to cater to the public... First off, the 4 meg Steam updater got leaked.. Then people like me started DLing it all early...

Then Valves bandwidth went bye bye...

CS 1.6 is like a 160 meg file.. there are around 70,000 CS players on any given night... 70,000 x 160 megs = 11,200,000 worth of Data to send out. (BTW, there are MORE then that many CS players, thats just the average tottal of CS players..) 500megs of bandwidth CANNOT meet even a 1/4 of that kinda of demand...

So anyhoots, before they had officially given out the patch file to the 4-5 sites selected to carry it.. they shut it down and shut down CS.. great... so people like me are faced with RELOADING HL and CS to play 1.5 or wait till Valve gets its collective head out of its collective ARSE! Isnt that WONDERFUL??? I hate them

BTW for those that dont know.. Steam is a BROADBAND only content delivery system Valve cooked up, its currently in beta, but eventually you will only be able to update ANY AND ALL VALVE programs through it.. and of course.. it will cost you money to do so.. isn't that nice?

[Navaron]

I could have told you that Steam was going to suck. All of those things like that blow. Simple as that. Valve has really hit the shitters lately anyway. Speaking of CS, does anyone even give a shit about CZ anymore? Whats the point? IT'S OLD. No offense to cs, but they really choked on CZ. WAAY past it's peak. I can't understand how people underestimate what their dl's are going to be. Microsoft is a real bitch about that too.

[mistled]

Breathe man, breathe. It's going to be allright. PS is going to come out and then who cares what they do with CS??

[Navaron]

....INHALE>..Exhale.....ahhh that's better. I really hope that games don't go the way of steam. I must be old fashioned but I like to hold what I pay for. The stuff I don't pay for, I don't care about .

[Civilian]

I hear that.

I completely reinstalled CS today in mod form from Half-Life so I could play 1.6. After downloading some 250+ MB worth of patches I finally read that I will be unable to play 1.6 because of the afore mentioned problem. What a ***

[Navaron]

Can we let go of our ankles now??

[�io]

Originally posted by MrVicchio
and of course.. it will cost you money to do so.. isn't that nice?

I said it before and i'll say it again, capitalism sucks.

And yeah i agree PS 0wnz CS!

[FireFrenzy]

Originally posted by Dio
And yeah i agree PS 0wnz CS!

You'd know that because we've all played it, right?

[Sputty]

Hamma has! I think he's said PS owns CS too.

[Hamma]

I think every game owns CS, its time for it to go away.

[MrVicchio]

Originally posted by Dio
I said it before and i'll say it again, capitalism sucks.

And yeah i agree PS 0wnz CS!

Yeah Captialism Sux! Its the driving force behind Planetsides development how on earth could you want that huh?

[Lexington_Steele]

Originally posted by MrVicchio
Yeah Captialism Sux! Its the driving force behind Planetsides development how on earth could you want that huh?

Not on earth, on Auraxis.

[mistled]

Originally posted by FireFrenzy
You'd know that because we've all played it, right?

I haven't played CS 1.6 either, but I'm sure PS will kick it's ass.

[�io]

1-PS 0wnz all.

2-Capitalism is also what makes people work 40hours a week just to buy their new cool pairs of Adidas made by small children in some 3rd world country who got paid a whole 0.84$ for making a pair of them.

I could go on about why our money based society means we our slaves to the work place and there are tons of injust things in the world but this thread isn't about that.

[CDaws]

I haven't played CS since about 3 weeks b4 1.3 came out and I don't regret it either. Untill Valve finally comes out with HL2 or TF2 it wont matter. Then again when PS come out nothing else will matter.