CS Getting In-game Ads - Valve Sells Out
09 Dec
Posted by Darren Stevens as Articles, Business, MMO, Multiplayer, Online, PC
It had to come at some point. In-game advertising in one of the oldest online shooters out there, Counter-Strike 1.6. Valve’s Doug Lombardi confirmed that in-game advertising, served by IGA, will appear in CS 1.6, and in CS:Source later on. He spoke to CS-nation about the ads, where he said,
“There will be some ads posted on walls in the game world, an ad on the scoreboard screen, and one in the letterboxed area of Spectator mode. Counter-Strike levels aren’t going to turn into Times Square or a Nextel Cup racecar. We have control over what ads show up in Counter-Strike and how they are presented.”
Counter-Strike is rapidly losing ground to more modern shooters like Battlefield 2, and this appears to be the worst Valve could do to the existing CS community.
Of course Valve defends it by claiming this decision was made together with the community, but that’s pure BS. No CS player would like to see in-game ads appearing all over the place. And let’s face it, just like any other game company these days, Valve follows the money. The little time I have for CS these days will certainly get lost to another game.
Via CS-nation
Tags: Articles, Business, MMO, Multiplayer, Online, PC
72 Responses
Jim2k
December 9th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
1Vavle was one of those game companies I respected and liked. No we get this bullshit? As soon as the ads hit, I’m uninstalling CS and re-installing BF2. We did it for the community”. WHAT?! A load of bullshit
Fuck Valve for what it’s worth.
Anuban
December 9th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
2I fear Epic will soon follow suit. Can you imagine in-game ads in Gears 2 or UT2K7/UT2K10? Although I appreciated HL2 a great deal Valve was never one of my favorite companies … still this is pretty hard to swallow.
the wicker man
December 9th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
3JIM2k hit it on the head of the nail man i had 2 respects for companies and they made the best games well game.ID software and valve, i bragged bout them to ppl saying they make games like we want them to.It took doom3 four years and had me and millions of ppl getting angry everytime they delayed it.When it was done it was a masterpiece,with half life 2 i started to realize well just now.Valve is different in its ways, it wont release crap cuz it only has hl2.Not css,dods,mods im talking bout a game that sells on the market is half life.They shouldve gave us an option to have the gay loads and such.Im making my own company trying to find programmers to start off making mods and getting r feet wet.Back to where this started movies r doign this too.just saling the name and no quatily at all.This is retarded man bf2142 does ads for the duo lol and it made me buy it cuz i wanted it before so everytime i saw it im like im gonna get that!But it was on a billboard so it was realistic how r u gonna do this on cs.U have millions millions of players the 2nd best game in the world as of hours.I never thought valve would do something like this man.Right now id software is the only company that started this whole gaming whole to 3d shooting and will never die,cuz they know hows its meant to be done.Make a product cuz ur proud of it,so we can play it and love it and and not go man when quake wars comes out im done with this game.im really disappointed valve,really disappointed.
Zac
December 9th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
4Hmmm… Valve.. Of all companies. This was unexpected.
Though it won’t change the gameplay. I guess people will just spray over the in-level ones.
Anuban
December 9th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
5Wickerman if you are serious about doing mod work then I suggest you get your hands on UT2K7 and start there. There is no bigger modding platform with a large community as there is the UT series. The UE2 engine which drives UT2K4 is very moddable … I know believe me … and modding with the UE3 is going to be even easier and more fun. Join the UT community and hook up with a mod team … there are plenty. I will be starting up a new mod group myself for a project under UT2K7 … not a continuation of HaloUT but a whole new original IP. Maybe if you learn some UScript or how to develop levels you can join my team. If you ever want advice let me know. I’ve been part of the mod scene for two plus years.
the wicker man
December 9th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
6I’m more of graphics and very skilled in writting i have bout 3 great ideas of games.Yeah i suck on a keyboard better in pen and crap.But yeah man i know how to mod i just need a programmer,where i tell him i want this done and that done.SO i have options on what to do, im more for what is fun and how to ur brain in a game.I thought bf2 did that well until the patches then it became so so.But yeah dude im great at designing levels so if u need any help on ideas and a level designer im ur man!
if u have xfire my name is t0mdel0nge
if u have aim my name is volumeone0686
Josh
December 9th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
7I will never support in game advertising. A part of the reason I enjoy playing games is that there isn’t any advertising, it’s free of that commercialist crap.
*HOWEVER* One way advertising would not leave a bad tast in my mouth is if it was done in such a way which wouldn’t take away from the experience eg. empty cans of coke littering a city map or a mars bar wrapper blowing around.
I doubt we’d see this sort of integration though as it’s a bit to subtle for advertising ppls to agree to use.
As for Valve’s use of in game advertising, I’m a little worried. I don’t play CS but if this spreads to other online MODs I won’t be at all happy. I wonder if the “community members” the asked were the CS Dev team.
Anuban
December 9th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
8I will definitely need a level designer when UT2K7 comes out as well as a concept artist and graphics person, and someone who has some good ideas and can tell a convincing story. Really you should take a look at my mod HaloUT for UT2K4 (well it was the whole TEAM’s mod but I was the Project Leader responsible for pretty much everything) … it is all over the web no kidding .. be sure to get the 1.751 version at the very least … I believe the HaloUT community did some extra work to bring it up to 1.752 once I permenantly left the project but I lead it from 1.0, 1.5, 1.75, to the Community Extras Pack so we did manage to accomplish a great deal under the Project Torlan-Project Nexus namebrand.
I am really looking forward to a 100% new mod project with some fresh new blood and a totally original story so yeah we will keep in touch. If you know others who want to do a UT2K7 TC mod then start talking to them and tell to be ready to start moving forward once it is announced when UT2K7 is out and the demo is released. It is going to be a VERY exciting time for UE3 modders.
MarcPerkel
December 9th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
9I don’t have a problem with Valve installing in-game ads…But ONLY if they provide an option for the customer who has already paid for their product to disable them.
Otherwise I’ve given Valve the last $$$ they will ever see from me.
Marc
ragnarok2040
December 9th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
10It seems to me that this could easily be bypassed, via an admin plugin replacing the ads with server themed pictures, having the server block the ad urls, or playing another mod similar to Counter-Strike. Frankly, I don’t see why Valve needs in-game ads in Counter-Strike, since the only thing utilizing actual money is their non-effective anticheat software, and providing lackluster updates.
peter
December 10th, 2006 at 12:12 am
11Ok, lets break this down. Valve is not selling any more units of counterstrike. It doesnt cost you anything to download their updates and play on their infrastructure. If CS is to stay around, there needs to be some way for Valve to make money. Its either this or a subscription fee… Which would you rather have?
Steve
December 10th, 2006 at 12:24 am
12People already use sprays to advertise porn sites they get affiliate cash from, so this is just a more legit way of doing it. It will not detract from the game, and anyone who quits playing CS because of a few ads needs to wake up and realize this is not the free internet of 1994 anymore.
Kyle
December 10th, 2006 at 12:26 am
13Ditto.
Those servers you’ve been playing on for free are costing somebody something to operate, own, and maintain.
The valve steam update servers (which give you your free updates) cost money.
Paying people to write those updates (which you get for free) costs money.
How are those bills going to get paid without _seriously_ nixing the community? BINGO… innovative online advertising.
FalveVuck
December 10th, 2006 at 12:35 am
14Yeah, fuck Valve.
Nate
December 10th, 2006 at 12:35 am
15Grow up!
“We did this for the community.”
Because without money, no servers, means no community. CS has been around for a long time. Revenue from game sales has probably dried up… so unless you want to start paying user fees, you should stop whining.
It can be done tastefully. Adding an ad to the bottom of the loading screen would hardly break the experience, and a few (but not all) of the levels could include billboards in an unobtrusive way. Given my choice, though, I hope they shy away from putting any adds in the actual levels.
But other than that, it’s a perfectly understandable business decision for a long running franchise that collects no user fees.
Dave
December 10th, 2006 at 12:53 am
16Neat something to shoot at .I look forward to them coming i always shoot other peoples spray tags so this is gonna be fun
tommy
December 10th, 2006 at 1:06 am
17wow…. who cares its still the same game… and if youd get more money off of it youd do it… seriously…wow…..(for those of you who are butt hurt that they are running a business.)
todd
December 10th, 2006 at 1:25 am
18Who gives a crap if there are ads posted on the wall? If they had put up fake ads already you fags would never complain. It does not effect the game. Let them make a few extra bucks, it probably means the next games will be even better. There is nothing to complain about.
Fuzz
December 10th, 2006 at 1:42 am
19Given Valve has millions of users and those users can d/l any of their payed-for games multiple times I suspect their bandwidth costs run 7 figures a year. The base problem is they let you d/l ANY game you ever bought to ANY PC you want…so you can have CS:S on all of your PC’s…you can do this three times a day if you want too. That costs a lot of money and if Valve wants to recoup some of that so what? We see advertising EVERYWHERE…on TV, on HBO (watch for placement adds…they are everywhere in movies), driving to the store, in the store, in the newspapers, on every single web site you ever went too…it’s the nature of the beast. There is no such thing as a free ride and if you think that’s because of “the man” or “selling out” grow up and smell the greenbacks…the worlds runs on money and this is no exception.
Bhopx
December 10th, 2006 at 1:56 am
20i dont understand this…you pay money to buy the game and you play on servers owned and operated by private individuals, not by valve. What do they need to put in ads for? arent there enough ads inside the steam program itself?
Zac
December 10th, 2006 at 2:33 am
21Needing a soundtrack for that mod Anuban?
dutchasian
December 10th, 2006 at 2:40 am
22Honestly people need to grow up. You’re seriously going to stop playing a game becasue they toss up a few ads? If that’s the case you might as well not be playing anyway because you don’t seem to care about the game much anyway, just it’s ad-free environment? What kind of bullshit arguement is that anyway, you play a game to get away from ads? wtf. CS sales have slowed seeing as most people that have ever wanted it have it, let them make their money so they don’t turn belly-up mk?
King
December 10th, 2006 at 3:09 am
23lol @ valve needing to do this to keep the community going. Most bs i ever heard.
For the most part servers are hosted by THIRD PARTIES, so are content servers. Not only that, theyve already turned a profit on the box sales of ALL their previous games.
Youre shitting yourself if you believe valve has to do this.
Anuban
December 10th, 2006 at 3:17 am
24Of course I will Zac … we had one for the trailer and it was not original but it was cool … also I had two people, Lopar-XL and UnrealGrrl who are well known in the UT community doing voicepacks.
Here is a list of the people who particpated. I am known as Exodus in the HaloUT community. Captain Valor was the actual founder and co-lead for a while. He had originally brought me on as the QA Manager.
“Developers/Technical Assistance: EvilEngine, Qx9, UbH, Slaughter, UT2004 Addict, Xabora, Dandel1984, porkmanii, 717, Oxygene2k, Mark Jansen (the original developer of Halovehicles), Magnum76, Brandon, Arcadia Vincennes, UnrealGrrl, Whistling Cool, Dace, robo422, [^..^]Apo, Zenodey, LoparXL, OutlawSkot33, HereticElite, DJ-Unowned, Disposable hero, Sjosz, Zio, Mematrix, Klasnic, MarZer, Cirion, Slip777″
This is a project I am very very proud of and also why I really like Bungie and MS so much because they knew for the full two years what we doing and gave us their blessing albeit not in writing … as long as we didn’t rip any Halo 2 content from the Xbox (I knew an MS employed xbox marketing rep so that helped out a GREAT deal) … and you can see why now since they are releasing halo 2 on Vista. Sadly the team that was working on a Halo RTS got the dreaded C&D letter once Bungie/MS decided to announce Halo Wars.
Jaken
December 10th, 2006 at 3:48 am
25seriously, are ingame ads that bad? i meen you can says “he just ran behind the mcdonalds sign” so who cares, these people are obviously blowing this out of proportion
Viper2026
December 10th, 2006 at 3:49 am
26Wow valve…fuck you, you’re getting no more $$$ from me. Ads are ok, but only if you offer the game for free…
clarke
December 10th, 2006 at 4:05 am
27Perhaps this is Valve’s way of pushing those 1.6 players to Source
hxc
December 10th, 2006 at 4:21 am
28What genious over at valve came up with this idea?!
I can picture it now: Big, top floor office building. Inside: well clothed twenty-somethin executive, sitting in a nice leather chair. A senior looking man who exudes seriousness walk up, and shakes the young man’s hand.
Do they REALLY thing ANYONE will be pleased by this? What target market are they trying to reach?!
Im uninstalling as soon as the update is released.
Riotta
December 10th, 2006 at 4:53 am
29Valve should release for free old CS 1.6 for everyone if they are putting ads in the game. Cause it’s not to fair for gamers which brought game.
Anuban
December 10th, 2006 at 4:54 am
30Again all I can say is Epic won’t do that with the PC version of UT2K7 … that is for certain … the modding community for UT is extremely large and I know they wouldn’t stand for it and Epic is really about pleasing the modders seeing we help push their product and their engine. One GREAT example is Red Orchestra which started out life as a UT2003 mod. I know because I installed the very first beta. But I never got into the gameplay … still look at how they are doing now. From a mod to a full blown UE2.5 based game which is growing in fans and support.
the wicker man
December 10th, 2006 at 5:51 am
31anuban get my email or my aim name or xfire dude
email volumeone0686@aim.com
aim volumeone0686
xfire t0mdel0nge
dude im telling i have 2 stories well ideas that r unique and fresh that nobody has seen.everyone ive talked to loves the ideas and says itll be fresh.
Anuban
December 10th, 2006 at 6:06 am
32After being “forced” use AIM and IRQ during the 18+ months the mod was in development I can’t stand it but we can talk by email … I’ll email you my address … but keep in mind I will be in school full-time and I’m not looking to really start a team until UT2K7 comes out at least as a demo. I’m not one for being one of the first to announce a mod. I’ve seen far too many fail before they got anywhere concrete at all. But yes I will be more than happy to listen your ideas. I do want to create a fantastic mod for the UT platform … this time a true Total Conversion Original IP one that may have the chance to grow into something much more.
bunnybash
December 10th, 2006 at 6:10 am
33if it means that playing is still free and that the games’ updater and creators of the game get paid, what is the problem, at least we aren’t forced to pay money every month to play like other games. Stop your whining people you have more ads reading a newspaper or on trains and buses, yet you keep using them… stop being so dramatic about these things, surely you have the mental capacity to look past the ads and ignore them!!
Anuban
December 10th, 2006 at 6:26 am
34That is not the point … as you yourself said we are bombarded by these damn companies everywhere we go. As gamers MOST of us thought we’d have a place like a refuge … free from there invasive behavior. MOST of us DO NOT want this when we HAVE to deal with Ads on a daily if not hourly basis. That is the point. Not that we aren’t intelligent enough to look past them … the point is we should NOT have to. That is all I am going to say on the topic.
Justin
December 10th, 2006 at 6:54 am
35I play CounterStrike for the game, I will continue to play and ignore the adds. I’m certain people will create maps like de_dust2_noadds that are the same exact maps without the advertisements, and the ingame scoreboard is customizable. There is going to be a way to get around the advertisements, if they force the adds on the community they will respond by finding ways to get around them.
Zac
December 10th, 2006 at 7:24 am
36Hmmm..
Anuban: I’d be happy to do some soundtrack work for a mod. I do a lot of composing/producing in my spare time, and game-style music is a passion of mine (listening to and writing). So if you want, I can email you a track or two to give you an idea of what I can do.
Pizza
December 10th, 2006 at 7:28 am
37Counter strike is a free online shooter. once all the games are sold how to you pay to maintain it? i dont like ads but eventually all the money they make from the game will run out b/c of paying people to maintain the game. its either they charge us to play (like world of warcraft), or they put in-game ads which kool server gurus will figure out how to disable.
yo momma
December 10th, 2006 at 8:15 am
38i haven’t bought a valve game since they rolled out with STEAM ,
fuck ‘em
ZERO
December 10th, 2006 at 8:30 am
39Well valve needs the money too…
Give me more updates that i do not want
Make more bad updates like dwp
Break more server mods
Break more server redirects
Find new ways to come up with updates to ram down my…
Reasurch new and creative ways to make the game worse
Find new excuses not to fix the net code
Pay people to make sure the net code is not fixed
Possibly make the net code worse
Develop HL3
Develop a worse anti cheater program…
Wate i ment better?
To pay for content servers to host and send all the above and more things that i do not want with the exception of HL3
ok so maby they did not need the money but some one said something about the servers that host the game:
I host two servers one currently ranked 18th in the US and climing, I am also planning on buying two more servers and adding more slots to my big one.
I am 100% sure that valve will not give me a penny for hosting their bs adds
I am also sure that i will do anything i can to get them off my servers
I am even conserdering hiring the guy who does custome programing work to make a mod to remove the adds.
I am wishing that valve would fix their net code and anti cheat
I am also wishing that they would stop breaking all my servers with stupid updates that have only the purpose of breaking the server and all of it’s mods.
Lastly I wish valve would leave the game alone. It was a great game back when it was made, so was chess and that has not been changed…
ever I think.
bourne
December 10th, 2006 at 8:38 am
40wow they manage to do it again. Take a game that has absolutly nothing wrong with it and break it. And here they are doing it agian. Hats off to valve for being a bunch of morons. what I wouldn’t do to have cs and dod back to stand alone downloads, I never asked for valve to come in and mess everything up. they’re headed up shiets creek and frankly the deserve whatever they get
vs
December 10th, 2006 at 9:52 am
41Seems like the fair thing would be for the CS server owners to take a cut of the revenue from these ads… then it would be “for the community” since it costs money to run the servers.
Anuban
December 10th, 2006 at 11:01 am
42“So if you want, I can email you a track or two to give you an idea of what I can do.”
Sounds good to me Zac … I don’t like making my email address public so how should we proceed?
Byron
December 10th, 2006 at 11:06 am
43Guys, they are putting adds in their games, big deal.
If the game play is the same then who cares, they are the level designers they had to build the levels, they should be able to put what ever they like in them, yes even ads.
Its not the end of the world, like another posters said eairler, i reckon it would be fun to have an identifying mark like a mc donalds sign. Mabey clever modders could make it a bomb site? I don’t know but i know that while CS remains fun, i will continue to play.
Zac
December 10th, 2006 at 11:17 am
44Hmm..
Email me at Digitalb@mailinator.com, then I’ll know what your email is, and I can email you with my proper email.
Zac
December 10th, 2006 at 11:20 am
45On the other hand.. Become a member of the Digital Battle forums and PM me.
(JeBuZac)
Anuban
December 10th, 2006 at 11:21 am
46I’m a member so I will pm you with that info.
DeadMG
December 10th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
47Valve doesnt really listen to the community, i can appreciate the broken game thing, but look at Blizz and Starcraft, theyre still going. Sometimes there are Ads in B.net, but we get over it. The server gurus will probably be able to block them anyway.
And about those updates every week, every time we get one, both our match servers, and our gungame server, are broken. Now we all have to put cl_restrict_server_commands 0 into console or autoexec.cfg before we can even use gun game or mani admin. How precisely is that listening to the community? Everybody said that DWP was stupid and price of deagle would go up loads, and its now unbuyable, but did they listen? noo
PINKZEPPLICA
December 10th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
48You guys are pathetic. I read Zac’s “Hmmm… Valve.. Of all companies. This was unexpected.” and I laughed. You sir, are a complete fool.
You say this was unexpected? Look at what “Steam” client is. It is one big ad. Even if you look at steampowered.com you’ll see games that don’t have anything to do with valve at all. If you remember them putting all these useless games such as Darwinia, Rag Doll Kung Fu… And worst of all Pop Cap games. Don’t even give me that BS about “Steam” being a client that is sopposed to bring up games.
To the in-game advertisements, who gives a crap. How will it affect you? You’re not going to be running down a corner and a bilboard will give away your spot. You all are a bunch of crybabies. Besides, every company is doing this.
the wicker man
December 10th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
49hey pink blow me man, one steam is a great way to get games for ppl that dont like cds or dvds.I just dont like EA games, its not giving or positions away.It morely it feels they dont care for their work anymore and just making money.they make so much money.HALF LIFE alone sold like 200 million copies probably in the 400 millions with the xbox and pc.You have so many games and gamers over the world.this company has billions off of 1 main game, id soft made like millions in the hundreds of millions.I see a trend,look at EA lol they are perfect.They sale products that arent done yet like bf2142.That game was so far from being done, witht the servers crashing randomly everytime a round ends usually 3,where ppl can jump through wallz,where u can take squad beacons and spawn in reactor cores,boxes so we cant kill him,where u can hover over a titan and get 26,000 points in 1 round.Okay do u see my point?Madden 06,07 wasnt even completed.EA owns valve now if u guys didnt notice look at the css and dods thingy case it says ea games too.This is y im complaining, im afraid ea is screwing up the gaming world at this point theyre way to powerful.U cant kill them now they own crytek,football rights,valve,dice.. 4 companies in the 10top of the best most played games.it goes like wow,madden,css,bf2,bf2142,cod,cod2.Ohh btw someone said it cost companies to make servers???? no it doesnt ppl buy the servers u moron.I should know i had a cal and had to pay 300 bucks for a 64 man server.
CB
December 10th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
50To all the people that dont mind the ads… all i have to say is baaaah… baaaaahhh … lol
They say PC games are dying… ads will help to quicken that… Look what it did for 2142 The IGA marketers are the lowest form of dirtbags…
DeadMG
December 10th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
51PC games are not dying, WoW with 7 million subscribers, and MMORPGs with subscriptions are a relatively niche market.
CB
December 10th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
52WOW doesnt have ads… and hopefully it stays that way…
Its a fact that PC game sales are dwindling though… That doesnt mean im happy about it… I am considering a career in game design… so i hope that PC games are around for a long time… minus the ads… lol
cj
December 10th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
53It’d be funny to play on the “kids are too influenced by games” crowd and see 5 or 10 kids playing these game go out and max out daddy’s credit cards ont he in game advertised products and then claim they couldnt help it they felt compelled because of the in game advertising. Wonder how long before it got legislated out of games then. ah well, back to reality
valve and thier “its the community too” crap can suck it
JonP
December 10th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
54Firstly, whoever said that EA owns Valve is 100% wrong. Do some research and you will find that EA is just helping Valve publish their HL2 game. EA does a lot of publishing for other game developers.
Anyways, I think IGN is the devil in respect to video games. They are going to change the way games are viewed and for the worse in my opinion. Damn them to hell!
Prime News Blog » Blog Archive » Valve Sells Out - Counter-Strike Getting In-game Ads
December 11th, 2006 at 9:58 am
55[...] Following BF2142, Counter-Strike will be getting in-game ads by IGA soon. CS is already struggling, and the ads might be the final blow to an online legend. Goodbye Counter-Strike. Welcome, greedy Valve.read more | digg story [...]
tyler
December 11th, 2006 at 11:12 am
56they have recently released a new hl2 (ep1) and cs:s hasn’t seen any bit changes in several years aside from new characters, they should start adding some guns, more characters, better graphics… possibly a new game… or make some changes to the current one, they are losing sales because cs:s is starting to become old and the graphics are starting to lack in comparison to other games, and maby a better map maker/editor will bring more people into the game
the wicker man
December 11th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
57i dunno im still amazed in doom3,and counter strike source.I was a cal player, made lots of money on prizefights.Kinda like a clan scrim but u dont lol know ur teammates.How can u lose money tho,ppl like me and u buy servers i bought a server we buy them.Valve doesnt buy anything at all for the multiplayer servers.Valve is cheap people y do u think it s so easy to hack css.Vac is garbage,punkbuster detects so much easier than valve does.And btw EA does own some of Valve JonP i did do my research di ck.The ads dont bother me its them turning out like EA that bothers me.Bf2142 im fine with,real life billboards have ads so im down with that.Plus theyre adding intel not madden or something.I just wish for once not just crytek or id soft would be proud of what they make/made and be happy instead of greedy.LIke half life 2 was okay but they re always bout the money,i watched them and i was right.One they didnt build their engine for half life it was a quake 2 modded engine.2 half life 2 was on a quake 3 highly modded engine which they built off of.And i know ur like fu ck that it looks like to good and etc.Id soft helped build that engine just like cod,moh..Where im going with this is a 6600 or even a 9600 ati card can play doom 3 on high with the 6600 on max settings.There was no reason that half life 2 shouldve had load points every 5 mins.You know what thast is?its targeting the poor gamers too? thats sad,theyre lucky they had css and dods they bought from hs kids
Paul
December 11th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
58As soon as this happens user numbers will drop massively. People don’t want to be force fed that shit for something they’ve paid for.
Connor
December 12th, 2006 at 12:27 am
59This could add more realism as long as it’s done right, like those stupid waterfresh vending machines are retarded pepsi, coke, etc would be so much more realistic..
jake
December 12th, 2006 at 12:50 am
60well this is one of the oldest gaming companies i mean i been playing cs since i remember the more the people to come in and play new members its fine with me and u alrdy own the game so dont fuckin bitch about them putting in ads to help out the damn gaming world people like me want to see cs 1.6 get more people to play its boring to see servers empty in pubs and there are barely anyone who likes to scrim 1.6 anymore i mean when source came out 1.6 started to vanish when 1.6 came out 1.5 died i mean honestly leave them be i support it.its kool and all.
Dan
December 12th, 2006 at 12:50 am
61Who cares? O no, 4-5 realistic ads in a realistic game setting? Assaulght will feel more real with billboards, as will office and a few others. Valve will use the ads right, theyll make sure there in good spots.
Thomas
December 12th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
62Fucking capitalists.
jake
December 13th, 2006 at 12:59 am
63yea i agree with dan i mean come on its valve dont stop playing b.c its just ads, i mean cs 1.6 is prolly the only one that has the realistic feel of guns and grenade effects in it…coming from the military point of view.
tommy
December 19th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
64ok seriously.. you guys are getting butt hurt over nothing…those who are butt hurt prolly play at their house 24/7 with no social lives.. i believe those would be the only people getting mad…..and second a business is created to make money tards. Im sure none of you would ever runa successful business on account that you are all big babies and would not want to make money fromw hat i see. the people who agree with me here are smart people and not because i said this but because its just commen sence.
tommy
December 19th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
65oh yeah and also…let me ask you butt hurt people a question…. Q: Say you are starting up a business and you create a business plan and hand it to corporations or small businesses to see if they will fund your start up costs, and one of them tells you okay will give you 10 million to start yoru company up but first we want you to promote our compnay by putting up ads of our products on your buildings and on your websites.
(now let me guess your answer here)
A: hell no im not gonna do that to get your 10 million that will start up my business. heck naw forget that i hate you. dee dee dee.
The one
December 26th, 2006 at 11:04 am
66I have my word now. Valve had done a super disappointing thing, but no one can stop it and i know u are no saying that u can stop it. Just society is growing faster and you have to understand that there is no way. Money is like a power now to people, well thats what really life is about money. This is, because everybody in this fucking world have there head stuck up there ass and they dont give a shit about anything. It just disgraces me that one day we will figure out that we were wrong for all what we have done the past what ever years or so.
I hope i could of got something through your guyes head. and remember to always stand up one by one and you dont know maybe something will happen one day, because i am.
so have a great day and dont get mad at anybody all i have to say is LIFE.
(: -the one-
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