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Valve Releases Counter-Strike 1.6 Installer
Thanks to Blue's News for pointing out that Valve has released the Counter-Strike 1.6 installer for Steam, the broadband delivery platform for which "over 200,000 new accounts have been created" since its official launch on Friday. The 379mb install, helpful for those who can't get swift downloads from Steam itself, is available from Gamer's Hell, Worthplaying, and FilePlanet (reg. required).
Downloading movies will never be as popular as going to the theater or renting, especially if the system is anything like Steam. How many people have fast enough broadband to download movies in the amt of time it takes to run down to the local Blockbuster or Hollywood. There is no reliability in the delivery via broadband. Anyways I would prefer Netflix.com over a downloaded movie that would probably be only viewable once.
I think you're also excluding a lot of people if you don't have rental stores. This may shock some of you but there are people out there who have no use for the internet and are getting by in life without it.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Steam makes the static cache file, but doesnt display the percentage of the download. So you look at your HD you have a 360 meg file, but its just a container.
At least now you can download a complete cache file, which should include all the basic levels... (Bitch when you join a server and you dont have that level, and you have to wait for the download.)
Funny how people always thought with Half Life patches that they needed to download all the incremental version patches seperately (Ie 1004 to 1008 then to 1010 etc) when all people needed to do was install Half Life then DOWNLOAD the FULL upgrade patch (which last time was around 70 megs or so) and install it.
Plain and simple. STEAM is aimed towards the AOL crowd who is often too stupid to unzip a zip file - never mind patching a game.
You must master your joystick like a fisherman masters bait! - Gimpy
To be honest Cyranose I do not trust VALVE's answer on this. I suspect they ARE doing something in the background that could possibly be spyware related and are just trying to use some "good feeling answers" to quiet the masses.
Maybe I am right - maybe I am not, who knows. The point is VALVE has effectivly ticked off a lot of hardcore half life players whether it was TFC/CS or some other mod with this STEAM crap.
You must master your joystick like a fisherman masters bait! - Gimpy
People have the right to complain especially seeing how VALVE has handled STEAM from the get go. Problems galore since the beta release and now the non beta release - plus the fact STEAM is so bug ridden and shoots up system requirements that it is killing off a lot of the players the TFC and CS community HAD to begin with.
Besides STEAM won't be running free games forever - eventually they will want people to use credit cards to play "future" games on it.
You must master your joystick like a fisherman masters bait! - Gimpy