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Counter-Strike Opens Weapons Market
kalpatin writes "The ever so popular game, Counter Strike:Source developed by Valve, has a new feature added to the game: A virtual marketplace for the weapons and equipment. According to Valve, every item's price will be updated on a weekly basis depending on the global market demand. Some users have posted their anger toward the new change on the Valve forums and have even started a petition to stop the change. Is Valve turning into Microsoft by introducing features that are not needed or wanted by the community, or are they merely spicing the game up?"
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Started playing it a year ago and haven't picked up CS since. It's awesome.
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
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Just right click on the game in your steam menu and tell it not to automatically update the game. There you go.
Were you dropped on your head as a child, or do you just ignore certain details to whine about "locked in" platforms?
...can be seen here: http://www.steampowered.com/stats/csmarket/ Though I agree that forced mods stink, the change to the game will likely be insignificant.
So, what you do on your server (and it has to be your server, in order to be able to tweak the options like you want), you can do this. But it won't affect anyone else.
and it SHOULD be free as in freedom. TCE is a GPL breaker.
Having not played CS, I can't comment, but I'd like to echo the fact that most of the people you come across on TCE are funny and friendly. For people thinking of downloading it, be aware that the new version, 0.49, is coming out on 29th, so you might want to wait. The maps and gameplay are, apparently going to change not insignficantly. Many of the changes are directly down to comments on the TCE forums on realism flaws. Looking forward to trying out the new gametypes and the new official maps (which look awesome from the screenshots) having said that, demolition and (to a much lesser extent) bodycount have kept me occupied. Give me a shout! -- gonzo|FishFace.
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Steam is about the most "friendly" content delivery platform I've ever seen at this point, barring some rather stupid technical problems that plagued the earlier releases (way to fail to learn from beta testing Valve).
I don't get why people are so hostile about it. I highly doubt that if one day Valve shuts down they'll just say, "lol, tough luck guys" and leave us with gigs of encrypted games we can't touch. That's about the biggest legitimate thing one can worry about, and judging from the size of Valve's money hats and the interest Steam is drawing from other publishers I don't think we have to worry about them running out of cash anytime soon.
Everything else is a non-issue or people don't get it. You DON'T have to update any of your titles unless you want to, it's just on by default. You DON'T have to be online to use Steam (yet another option people mysteriously overlook). You CAN burn backup copies of your games (there's an option to spit out backups in CDR and DVD friendly chunks, I just reinstalled from a backup a few months ago when I got my new rig built). There's no restriction on how many PCs you can install your games on. Shit, I can go to any internet-enabled PC, install Steam, and have access to my games whenever I want (well, after downloading 2+Gigs of stuff, buh!). That's fucking awesome IMO.
"It's ok, if you don't like it just don't download the patch and just continue playing it your way with your mates on the local LAN..."
I really don't see how this can compare. Maybe I'm just not cool enough to have 47 or 31 some friends ready to hop onto a game of counterstrike at any time of day or night. But something tells me that you don't either, and the option you presented was just to fuel your argument, rather than a feasible choice that anyone else would make.
To be honest, I bought my entire game through steam. I don't even have a physical backup. So from an external perspective, one might think I'm biased towards them. But the truth is, I just saw it as an opportunity to do everything through the computer, as I was over at my brother's and I planned to surprise him by having the platinum pack bought, installed and running by morning when he woke up, so that we could play together. On other people's servers. Because small lans of counterstrike can't possibly as entertaining as playing normally, with the online crowd.
I agree that having updates forced on you is no fun if there's a chance that they could be detrimental in some way. Star Wars Galaxies being a good example. God knows it could be the same with WoW. But the content updates have to be applied to everyone evenly to ensure they can all play together. You can choose not to update in steam, but you are also cutting yourself off from everyone who has. And in an online game, that's not really an option.
Ever get the feeling that the people who don't have anything to say are the ones doing the majority of the talking?
If you're going to be pedantic you should at least bother to look the damn word up.
`moot':
"has three Standard meanings: "discussable, debatable"; "under discussion, being disputed"; and "without practical significance, academic." Thus a moot question may be open to discussion, in the process of being discussed, or not worth discussing at all, depending on the sense dictated by context."
Columbia Guide to Standard American English (http://www.bartleby.com/68/42/3942.html).
You also could have used "define:moot" at google and seen that the word has many accepted and acceptable meanings. Which, of course, makes your point moot.
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