Steam BETA & FileShack

[Monarch]

Yea, I am not too anxious, so I am just waiting for a final release.

[rizzuh]

mouth wrote..

Non-mercury users are simply on a "first come, first serve" basis, which makes complete sense.

This release of Steam is for Mercury members only.

[Dragon_Song]

OMG, We have to pay?! Doesn't the damn company make enough money already!?

[alex`]

i already have steam, but thats cheap.. fileshack also sucks., check out www.filefront.com ... you get free downloads, no registration and speeds of 70-80k/s

[narby]

rizzuh wrote..

This release of Steam is for Mercury members only.

You misreadin a lil.

[solgae1784]

Even though they say Steam is avaliable only to fileshack mercury, there are still plenty of sites who offer leaked version of Steam. To be honest, I decided to try that one. And, for SOME reason, it works great. I am now playing CS 1.6 and it's pretty fun in my opinion.



I used both FAMAS and Galil and for FAMAS, it was exactly what I hoped. But for Galil, I think it's a little too good for $2000. (I call it a 'cheapo rifle' =) ) The riot shield is all around much what I expected. You can still get killed if they shoot you through the window. (I don't know if that's a penetration bug)



Overall, good. But I feel somewhat guilty about this.

[Cruiser]

Would you rather this was on Gamespy/Failplanet?



At least any cash from new regs will go to a far better cause than GSI. Valve made me happy by doing this, its a nice big middle finger up to the land of the bloatware.

[Saitoh Hajime]

So, the general idea I'm getting from this is if I wanted to play CS 1.6 right now, downloading an "official" release, and had not already downloaded Steam 2.0, I would have to go on to Fileshack, and not only sign up, but also PAY???



What the hell is this? An MMORPG?



And why is it that it is being released only on Fileshack? Why not just a flat out official release?



This seems completely unfair, and biased against the poor/cheap-ass part of the CS community that I am so proudly a part of.



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I guess I'll just have to keep on waiting... not like I haven't done enough of that already...

[Tekron]

solgae1784 wrote..

Even though they say Steam is avaliable only to fileshack mercury, there are still plenty of sites who offer leaked version of Steam. To be honest, I decided to try that one. And, for SOME reason, it works great. I am now playing CS 1.6 and it's pretty fun in my opinion.



I used both FAMAS and Galil and for FAMAS, it was exactly what I hoped. But for Galil, I think it's a little too good for $2000. (I call it a 'cheapo rifle' =) ) The riot shield is all around much what I expected. You can still get killed if they shoot you through the window. (I don't know if that's a penetration bug)



Overall, good. But I feel somewhat guilty about this.

yeah dude for the non-moronic people out there, they would try to search the internet for the file first before paying x amount of money... geez there are even links to d/l it own steams own website...whats this scam fileshack is doing?

[cHic0!]

People pay to get the file right away with no waits, no hassle, no searching, just a fast download. For example, they will be the first to get cs/hl patches because they wont have to wait or anything.

[McDeth]

They also pay to get rid of annoying ads, get "featured" downloads that non-paying customers do not get, e.t.c

[Tekron]

wow download the patch faster than anyone else! this must make you special and signify you have never seen a vagina in atleast 6 months due to the fact that you PAID to download faster...

[mouth]

McDeth wrote..

Oh hisss hisss, I can see somebodies panties got in a fuckin twist......somebody needs to cool it, and its not me. I was just posting my opinion.

And your opinion sucked, jackass. Don't act like you were playing it cool when you launched into a completely ill-thought rant, wondering when developers are going to start suing people for something they're not doing.

Shadow-Dragon wrote..

lol I can't believe you guys are arguing over fileshack. Geeks are pathetic.

Yeah. Why don't you post a few more times on an internet comments section so we can see how butch you are?

Saitoh Hajime wrote..

And why is it that it is being released only on Fileshack? Why not just a flat out official release?



This seems completely unfair, and biased against the poor/cheap-ass part of the CS community that I am so proudly a part of.

STEAM was officially released, as far as i'm concerned. Finding the installer was child's play. Anyone that had 2 braincells to rub together got the file a long time ago, so it's your own god damned fault if you wanted it so badly but decided to not get it before now.



Beyond that, people are still so wrapped up in their CS-centric stupidity to realize that you are not paying to download STEAM, should you subscribe to mercury. You are paying for mercury itself, and all that comes with it. If all you want is STEAM, then YES, GENIUS, a mercury account is naturally not going to be a worthwhile purchase for you.

[.::Phoenix::.]

arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics.



even if you win, you're still RETARDED

[FLeK0]

In addition, Mercury members have access to a private messageboard where Valve Software employees will answer questions and help our Mercury subscribers as they try out the new Counter-Strike 1.6 BETA.