Chode Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Reported here from neowin itself and also some here and also Here ...a problem with Counterstrike and Valve. There is a long series of e-mails between Valve and the Cyber X crew, in which Valve said they would be on site to offer support, and a few other things. Valve didn't show, and what little support it offered came way way too late to make a difference. A hint to companies, when 1200+ of your most rabid fans are in a room together playing the game that made you, and is much of your ongoing income, don't blow off the people who set the event up.To make matters worse, it put out a 3MB patch in the middle of the gaming session. 1200 people at 3MB per head is 3.6GB, or enough to tie up every line the games had for the better part of 24 hours. Things crawled to a halt very very quickly. Add in that the only way to get the patch was over the fragile Steam network, and you have a recipe for disaster. Could it get worse? Oh yes, top this mess off with a liberal helping of Valve losing a router under the load, and the happy dance was nowhere to be seen among the Cyber X crew. Now not only have Valve ****ed off many potential customers, but now they have ****ed off the funders of the Cyber X event (namely Microsoft, ATI and AMD....3 of the 4 companies not to **** off) and a tightly packed group of 1200 or so fans. Curiouser and curioser... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalN. Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 OMFG. yhose guys are smoking something. i swear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baker Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 It wasn't Valves fault. Gotfrag Article I happen to be intimately aware of whats going on..not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Versaw Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 It wasn't Valves fault. but people love to blame valve for everything! its getting quite annoying..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chode Posted January 13, 2004 Author Share Posted January 13, 2004 but people love to blame valve for everything! its getting quite annoying..... Valve still suck.... public image forms the greater part of the modern games market, and they still seem to be under the "media lock down" since the leak/delay. It's Valve fault that I have no games to play, that CXG sucked, that NVIDIA have had their public image shot apart (undeservingly), that the internet is so slow, that my email box is filled with spam, and that between my toes smells funny :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Already Posted: https://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=16515&category=main Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpu killer Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Already Posted:https://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=16515&category=main 00 N0, wat shall we do now? Yah, valve sucks :p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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