Mr. Zips Goes to Washington

[CSN NewsBot]

It's official, I'm headed off to visit Valve at the end of the month. I'm not sure what all I'll have time to do while I'm there, but if you have any questions at all, now is the time to post them. I'll see what I can possibly squeeze in during my day there.



If you have a question you wish me to ask Valve, speak now or forever hold your peace!

[omgomgz]

Ask them when they're going to make a game for the Wii, get ready to slap them in the face if they start to say they have no plans.

[pwnedbyIbanez]

They probably don't have any plans.



If you're looking for something to do, go to Safeco Field- I bet they'll even have a Wii for some of you Nintendo gamers... I'll be going to the M's game on the 29th :)

[Tono_Tako]

ask about new updates for css, as stadistics, new engine update, new gamemodes and maps, please, kthxbai

[MechanimaL]

ask them why they can't do a netcode similar to 1.6 for cs:s. a main reason why the game doesn't get the popularity in competitive events that 1.6 has.. ask them perhaps within this subject what they think about cs:s promod.



Thanks!

[ZEROarmy]

Remove awp delay from 1.6?



All the kiddies moved to source by now

[meowmeow]

Ask em if they've ever been bitten by a crab.

[NIPPER]

Ask them if they have ever played a nipper map and if they have any plans to implement func_vehicle in source.

[MrBosnia]

My request is that you ask them what kind of future will Team Fortress 2 have (Such as, what will be some of the things they will be looking at after release. i.e. class balancing, new maps, new game modes, bots (definitely curious about this), etc.)

[Crilix]

Hey Zips, congrats on getting to make a trip to Valve! I'm totally jealous.



Anyhoo, please ask them what they have planned for DoD:S, or if it's the end of the line.



And if you could somehow use your magical powers to convince them to release an official dod_charlie, I will love you forever.

-Cril

[Zips]

Awesome stuff here guys, keep 'em coming. I'll post a reminder in a few days about this as well. Pretty sure I'll ask when we'll see CS2. Har!

[MikeJ]

yo you should meet up with rizzuh and go pwnz0r some nubs that's what i did when I was up there lol

[snkcube]

Ask them what their favorite games of all time are.

[Thortok2000]

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All I really ask is that you keep a good 90% of your questions Counter-strike related since this is, after all, a CS website. And if you can't do that, please, at least ask all your CS-related questions /first/ and if you run out of them, then ask other questions.



Here's things I'd like to see:



-CS:S Bug fixes (netcode in particular, the 'report bug' feature being bugged itself, and my personal annoyance, vesthelm taking all your money when DWP is on, among other bugs)

-CS Server filters to make it easier to find a game that has (or doesn't have) the mod you want to play (or avoid). After all, I want to play the game VALVE made, not this gungame deathmatch rpg warcraft3 zombiemod nonsense. Finding a server to play on has to be THE most annoying part of CS:S to date. How do they plan on making this any easier for the average player?

-AS_ objective maps

-ES_ objective maps

-Other objectives. Or at least the option for mappers to make maps of those objectives, even if they don't want to spend the time to make the maps themselves.

-The ability for mappers to add vehicles in source (as mentioned above).

More support for CS:S in general, perhaps by hiring more people to work on CS:S so that they don't take people away from their current projects?

-Future plans, of any type, for CS specifically and not just source engine updates? What can we expect to see, specifically for CS, in the next year? What can we expect to see, specifically for CS, before Zips gets another trip to visit Valve?



Non CS stuff:



-Graphical improvements to HL2, like HDR, for PC users?

-"Can you promise us that we will never see advertisements in TeamFortress 2, ever?" "How about CounterStrike Source?" It would be good to get a promise on this, and video record it if you can. If they can promise a firm never, then I'll consider actually buying TF2. Probably the last question you want to ask.



Episode 2 Pricing/Marketing rant:



-How much will JUST episode 2 cost if that's the only game I want and NOT portal or TF2 or HL2 or EP1 or anything else for that matter? I don't mind buying on steam at all (in fact I kinda prefer it), but the /only/ game I want is EP2, and the thought of paying even one penny out of pocket for games I already own (HL2 and EP1) makes me want to puke.



I don't want TF2 and Portal, but I'll swallow it if it's at a reasonable price, since they're not going to be /bad/ games. But unless there's an option to buy at least this trio without HL2 and EP1, that just basically says I wasted my money buying HL2 and EP1 before now, and I really feel like Valve's "double dipping" into my wallet. It doesn't make me a happy customer whatsoever.



Sure, I could give them to other people, I even have someone in mind if I have to, but above the "double dipping" feeling, it feels like Valve is /using/ me and /my money/ to push /their product/ onto other people. If I /fail/ to push /their/ product onto someone else, /I/ come out behind financially. That makes me even less of a happy customer.



And then, sure, I give HL2 and EP1 to someone else. Then they decide they want to play EP2, too, so they buy it. And now /they/ have the extra copy of HL2 and EP1 that /they/ have to push to yet someone else? All in all, this has 'screw the customer' written all over it.



Then, when you add the fact that when I bought the HL2 'pack', which did include EP1, and was supposed to include EP2 and 3 "If you buy this pack now, you'll get EP2 and EP3 later!" (from what I understood at the time anyway, although it doesn't say that now, and I probably misunderstood and didn't read too closely since I planned on buying the pack anyway and thought I would be able to buy/get EP2 and 3 individually), only to learn that I /would/ have to pay for EP2 and 3, and NOT individually, even though EP2 is getting individually and retroactively added to the same exact pack I bought, with no change in price to that pack from the time when I bought it, then I feel /really/ screwed, and almost don't even want to buy the game anymore.

[I2o[G]uE TacT-X]

Chunky or creamy peanut butter?