Ads Now In CS1.6

[CSN NewsBot]

Apparently, the last update made it so that the voluntary BETA for advertisements in Counter-Strike 1.6 are no long voluntary.

I scoped out Office to see if the ads had made their way into the corporate setting, but they have not. So far, I've only seen them in Dust2 and Aztec. These still seem to be the placeholder ads that were used in the BETA. Meaning, these are all ads for Valve's own games right now, and the "true" ads may be coming along shortly.



By "true" ads, I mean those that are for products that are not created by Valve. Hopefully, they will not look like such a sore thumb on the map walls. Of course, this is all just speculation on my part. The non-Valve ads could also end up being just as "stamped on" as the current ones are.

[infil87]

The WORST thing is that Valve has been keeping their mouths shut! No news about it, and it isn't even in the changelog. What a bunch of assholes, seriously. They make good games and everything. I bet they're great guys and what-not, but this is just pathetic.



I think in a very short while, Valve will realize what they've done, and remove them. I can't imagine that they can get away with this.

[peagle]

infil87 wrote..

I think in a very short while, Valve will realize what they've done, and remove them.

I find that scenario less likely than a successful hostage rescue in cs_assault.

[infil87]

peagle wrote..

I find that scenario less likely than a successful hostage rescue in cs_assault.

Maybe it's just me hoping. But after seeing how many people are really pissed off by this, I can't shake the idea of Valve removing them...

[Zips]

infil87 wrote..

Maybe it's just me hoping. But after seeing how many people are really pissed off by this, I can't shake the idea of Valve removing them...

Where'd I put that DWP at?

[pwnedbyIbanez]

Nah, I doubt Valve would do anything to change their standpoint of ads, except to add more ads into maps...



CURSE YOU, EA!!!

[Bokuho]

peagle wrote..

I find that scenario less likely than a successful hostage rescue in cs_assault.

Not actually all that hard.



Anyhoo. This is a shame, but eh, we've known stuff like this was coming for awhile. The only real surprise is that they didn't slap this stuff in a couple of years ago back when CS was at it's real height.

Still. Shame they had to go and put them up on my favourite spray icon locations. Or what were my favourite spray icon locations, because lulz, who plays CS now anyway? m i rite?



i m rite.

[V.C. Sniper]

I really like the look of the Half-Life 2: Episode Two ad! =D

[Zips]

V.C. Sniper wrote..

I really like the look of the Half-Life 2: Episode Two ad! =D

Would make for some good box art... -cough-

[acidsnow]

Looks like its time for the AIDS GNOME to make another appearance



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[entRo]

If Valve wants to put ads in our games, fine, but give us our games for free.



Promises of reduced prices with Steam, and we get MORE expensive games, which seem to be following a trend of half-finished content. Now we get ads in our overpriced, half-finished games?



Yaaaaay! Kiss my dick you assholes.

[Gpig]

It's about time; I was so pissed when I bought Counter-Strike and there weren't ads in it. I'm glad there's companies like Valve and EA to answer gamers cries for more ads. Gaming is an expensive hobby, and we've suffered ad-less oppression for too long. No longer!



Meh, I guess I'll just finish out the CAL season and call it quits if there aren't any fixes released. Of course CAL won't support the fixes while CEVO will, because CAL is CAL.

[kalabalana]

I wonder how long until there's a new plugin mod that just puts a texture square right over all the ads in game.

[obsidianelite6]

nice. they spend time working on ads for the black box in dust2 instead of getting the black box out to customers.

[acidsnow]

Zips wrote..

There's been other outlets for that sort of thing. Perhaps once the final release of the ads is closer, they'll say something.