I for one see the end of competitive CS 1.6, all competitive 1.6ers complain about any change (large or small). This is probably going to be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back and I don't even know how the leagues are taking the news, doubt it was received well. Though I could care less about that, if I'm not having fun then I'm not going to play the game and practicing 2 hours or more everyday is not my idea of fun.
The thing thats gets me is Valve != poor and on the verge of collapse. They could bleed money for 5 years on crack and still not be in any financial trouble.
As another example of ways that an advertising model may benefit the CS community, for a long time we’ve looked for new ways to let mod authors make money. Funding a game development project is currently a chicken and egg problem — you can’t get funding without having already built a great product, and you can’t build something great without money in the bank. If this experiment with advertising in CS 1.6 is successful, it may turn out that we’re able to help the next round of successful mods get off the ground because of ad revenue.
Mods are already selling out left and right, if a mod used ingames ads I would not buy it. Even if it was Natural Selection or DoD 1.3: source, I would NOT buy it for that specific reason. I could care less if it won every video game award there was, nothing on this Earth will make me buy a game with ingame ads (nope not even if it was Duke Nukem Forever). Btw Valve, games get funding for having a
good idea or at least one that will
sell . And most half-life mods that have sold out went to Valve, which funded their release so I really don't understand what the frack they are talking about.
PermenentMarker
I simply do not understand why dont they just throw them in CS:S
Or maybe the intend to have cs 1.6 users go to Source...
And after that is done throw the adds on the source version... lol
I truly think thats what Valve is trying to do, they must be dead set on killing of 1.6. I think the whining broke them and they snapped, that or drugs... lots of drugs.
Tak
Thanks for the heads up. Promptly deleted CS 1.6 from my steam list, as I will do every game they put this **** in.
lol it hasn't come out yet, talk about jumping the gun
. Enjoy what you can while it lasts I say.
Edit:
Why is it so bad with ingame ads?
So far the games with ingame ads are from companies with plenty of money and sell for $50 to $60, there is no way they are hurting financially. If anything that company will lose more money from customers they just alienated through their greedy ways (customers like me) then they gain from ad revenue.
Games become more and more costly to develope for each generation so why not finance some of it by allowing ads? Cheaper games for us all and specially game in modern enviroment or not a distant future enviroment take no harm from this. Seeing a billboard ingame with a Pepsi or Coca Cola logo is not that different from going outside IRL.
In CS: S it would make sense since I would prefer a coke cola vending machine over the fake brand they have now. And the PC objects already look like dell's, might as well put the name on them. Things like that are ok because they add to the atmosphere not like some giant out of place billboard that only distracts you from playing. However, CS 1.6 has nothing like the vending machines that are in CS: S, the only place they can put stuff is on walls, floors, and ceilings. Besides it will take about 5 minutes for custom maps like de_dust2NoAds to come out anyway so I don't think Valve will be able to pull this off, at least not without a black eye.