Steam 2.0 BETA Delayed

[Xpoce]

Dued i went to CS Central and download Stream 2.0 now its preloading files from half-life d0es this mean i will get 1.6 or will it give some sort of message that i cant d/l it?

[$pazmatazz]

I CANNOT believe Valve couldn't predict the amount of bandwith that would be used for this.

[m0ss]

Gnu wrote..

Okay, about three people are making sense in here. Not that I should expect anything else.



1.6 IS going to be "released" the traditional way. This isn't a release -- it's a beta. And, like the 1.4 beta, it's really more about beta testing Steam than it is Counter-Strike. Testing a pre-release 1.6 is just an added bonus.



I can understand why Valve would underestimate their load; they seemed to do just fine when Steam was first released to the public. The possible difference here is the fact that the userbase has probably quadrupled since then, not to mention the fact that they had a fair few people (like me) participating in their "semi-closed" beta beforehand who weren't swamping the servers when it was unleashed to the public with the ******. (We got to peek at DoD 2.0 a couple of weeks early, as well ... I felt speshul.)

I don't have anything to say, I just wanted what he said posted again incase you people missed it.

[V1P3l2]

this really sucks if been waiting for this since like september 2002 and now we have to wait longer

[Frito Bandito]

Take13|Invader Zim wrote..

You'd think that with all the download craze that happens at EVERY new version release they would have learned their lesson by now. I mean, everytime all the big mirrors got swamped like stupid, what the hell did they expect would happen this time?



I'm not known for my vavle bashing, but this was simply the utter most stupid thing that could have happened (VALVe realized their bandwidth simply couldn't handle the load). I mean, hello! There is such a thing as experience. You might have had at least some idea what would've happened in terms of bandwidth requirements during something this big that people all over the world have been waiting for.



And now, cuz it's steam, you can't even start a local lan game, so there we are, with 935Mb of worthless files that you won't delete, cuz when they finally DO release 2.0 you'll have less to download.



*sigh* Absolutely brilliant.

So true. So fucking true.



I'm downloading CS 1.6 right now, fuckin 62 minutes to go.

[lakz]

I knew this would happen

[Lethal]

I saw earlier a server with 9/10 players, when I tried to connect I got "Invalid Steam Registration." Hmm.

[UncleFu]

to the people that said 1.6 would not be out today.... your checks are in the mail!!!

[TeMPeR]

im in australia with 56k and just tried steam again

created an account and its downloading 1.6 at 5k/sec

ETA is 3hours im just hoping somewhere local has a server up by then



i guess this means they added extra bandwidth?

[Lethal]

Give a man a golden toilet seat and he will complain that it is too cold.

[Kream]

Lethal HAHAHAHAHA...

[SkylineGTRR35]

FUCK!



aight heres wut goin on wit me. I have Steam 2.0 and i have CS 1.6 and i have subscibed to CS and i click games and then i double click CS and all it does is say preparing CS...



i hope it works just to c the guns and maps.



Well im gunna try it agian and take a 20 minute shower while it sits on the preparing CS window hopefully it will load:)



PS i tryied joing a server erlier and i got to the new window but it froze:\ POOP on this BETA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



iy looks so damn cool i like the look and physical Detail of Steam so i was very disapointed to find out after a 60minute download of 1.6 that it wouldn't work! crap

well im gunna try and i'll let every one noe if it worked or not.

[Sa-Raven]

OMG i've dling for 2 HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEAZ STOP TRYING TO DL 1.6. WAIT TO THE WEEKEND WHEN IT MAY DIE DOWN A LI'L

[ApatheticYouth]

kareeser wrote..

XGL, you can't blame the millions of people who download CS 1.6 at the same time. I bet you were one of them too.



We all want CS 1.6, and earlier today, I read CSCentral's comments page, and i was disgusted by the replies... people were going



"F___ING STEAM! WE WERE BETTER OFF WITHOUT THEM"



and



"DOWNLOADING CS WAS BETTER THE OLD WAY!"



Honestly people, let's not lose our heads! We're all very anxious to get 1.6!



(I have it already, It's just slow as heck)



Just patiently wait a day or two! A day won't kill you, will it?



(Please don't reply with stuff like "Yeah, I WILL die", Thanks



- Kar

i think i am going to die.

[[AFO]Tandex]

haha my steam works fine same with my cs same with every thing it pays of skipping schoo haha newbs!!! IM PLAYING CS 1.6 RIGHT NWO