Half-Life2.net brings us news of Gabe Newell comments regarding Steam and the recently opened Counter-Strike: Condition Zero pre-orders. There isn't too much new information about future patches for Counter-Strike or Steam, however there is this interesting tidbit:
Update: HalfLife2.net seems to be down for right now.[break="Gabe's letter"]There are a couple of Steam-related things that I thought were worth bringing up.
#1) We've been re-running the hardware survey as we do periodically. We're up over 500,000 respondents. The running tally is at http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html
The previous survey is at: http://valve.speakeasy.net
There's lots of interesting info, for example Windows 98/Windows ME users going from 62.8% down to 8.25%. It will be cool when more people realize they can play localized versions (Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, German, and Spanish) of the games over Steam.
#2) We've been able to increase the level and speed of our Steam upgrades by direct reporting of client bugs back through Steam. If a Steam client reports a problem, we can replicate it on our machines and jump directly to the line of code in our debugger. This is hugely valuable, and just a fundamentally better way of supporting our customers than we've had in the past.
#3) We've started taking pre-orders for Counter-Strike: Condition Zero over Steam. It is way cool that the people who have been supporting us over the years can now buy our games directly from us. When the first pre-order went through, we all cheered. We're going to be contacting the person who did it and doing something to commemorate the occasion. I was trying to be first, but couldn't type fast enough and ended up #6.
Gabe
We've been able to increase the level and speed of our Steam upgrades by direct reporting of client bugs back through Steam... This is hugely valuable, and just a fundamentally better way of supporting our customers than we've had in the past.Gabe also talks about the first pre-order of CS:CZ and Valve's hardware survey. You can read his letter in its entirety by clicking below.
Update: HalfLife2.net seems to be down for right now.[break="Gabe's letter"]There are a couple of Steam-related things that I thought were worth bringing up.
#1) We've been re-running the hardware survey as we do periodically. We're up over 500,000 respondents. The running tally is at http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html
The previous survey is at: http://valve.speakeasy.net
There's lots of interesting info, for example Windows 98/Windows ME users going from 62.8% down to 8.25%. It will be cool when more people realize they can play localized versions (Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, German, and Spanish) of the games over Steam.
#2) We've been able to increase the level and speed of our Steam upgrades by direct reporting of client bugs back through Steam. If a Steam client reports a problem, we can replicate it on our machines and jump directly to the line of code in our debugger. This is hugely valuable, and just a fundamentally better way of supporting our customers than we've had in the past.
#3) We've started taking pre-orders for Counter-Strike: Condition Zero over Steam. It is way cool that the people who have been supporting us over the years can now buy our games directly from us. When the first pre-order went through, we all cheered. We're going to be contacting the person who did it and doing something to commemorate the occasion. I was trying to be first, but couldn't type fast enough and ended up #6.
Gabe
if so, keep up the good work.
That debugger system that have seems pretty nice.
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