Nesto wrote..Your sir, are a moron. I said simile, not a smile. Go back to school and learn what a simile is.
u probaly forgot the smiley face then because there's no smiley face in ur post earlier.....
and about the foreign subject.. who said it was foreign?
U try speaking dutch to me, then come back and moan some more :p
stooopid wrote..I read an interview somewhere recently (I think it was the british comp mag, Edge) and, incredibly, they said that they're actually talk about how they're hoping to finally make money out of their work. well done for your deduction Mr Stooopid but the numbers aren't just for a plan confined to milking the cashcow counterstrike, it's also to prove to clients that might want to publish games over Steam that there's a wide enough audience.
Where do you get the numbers!!
The numbers are increasing because ppl want to play the game for fun not to cheat!!
First, the numbers are from the Steam broadband operating model on steampowered. Its a business plan.
Second, it doesn't matter why people play, only that it is wildly popular and nobody is making money on it. If you were in charge of Valve you'd be rubbing your nuts trying to figure out how to turn some revenue on it somewhere... This isn't rocket science. You would be informed to know that Steam includes all kinds of nice features for "e-commerce" including credit card authorization, one-time fees, subscriptions, and related billing mechanisms. I don't make this stuff up. Its right there in the report (if you can read, of course).
Its coming people... maybe not in 1.4... but soon.
-stooop
Goo5ey wrote..Agreed.
I read an interview somewhere recently (I think it was the british comp mag, Edge) and, incredibly, they said that they're actually talk about how they're hoping to finally make money out of their work. well done for your deduction Mr Stooopid but the numbers aren't just for a plan confined to milking the cashcow counterstrike, it's also to prove to clients that might want to publish games over Steam that there's a wide enough audience.
I wouldn't actually mind paying a reasonable rate for counterstrike - I've been playing free for the past two years and it actually costs Valve money to maintain it over all this time anyway... I don't think cheating is the reason for the rise in popularity though - the numbers may be high but cheaters are cheaters and I'll bet the majority won't pay their way, although the slower ones will probably pay then get banned multiple times...Yeah, I wasn't trying to say that cheating has made CS more popular... i was just saying that Valve can make their money whether cheating is popular or not. It hasnt made CS less popular, so why should Valve care? Maybe to make the whinners stfu.
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