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Originally Posted by Toasty-Sloth
ohhhhhh i won't be able to go this year then. £90 is far too much for someone who doesn't have a part time job :P I'm becoming a lifeguard by next year so I should have the money to pay for it
Thanks for the info, I will 100% consider it for next year
could always give challex special favors he tips well for thoes under 16
hi btw
Not after last time..... NOT AGAIN!
(Shit, I have the feeling that won't go well xD)
Take that ya one-eyed, bomb-lobbin', cactus eatin', pot bellied, thug fat jigglin-chicken whoopin' big, back-stabbin lob-armed creepy spastic bloody, blind-eyed pashy little twitchy pickle-headed rocke- hoppin, potato-poppin' phony two-faced stealthy mutant bastard!
Orange box is on offer, gogogo.
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oh i got the orange box :P
have to go change that actually
jesus christ... 11 quid for five award-winning games... Sometimes, I wonder how valve turns a profit...
That said, i'm certainly not complaining. Viva la steam!
And then you get CS fan boys moaning about how they don't support CS:S anymore then saying that valve is a bad company because of it.
I mean CS:S is an old game and it's alright as it is. Tf2 needs more support as it's for introducing gamers into PC gaming and shooters.
With deals like this there is no way Valve can be considered a "bad company"
CSS is about to get a pretty big update.
144 achievements added
New lifetime player stats and summary screens
New match player stats and summary screens
New end of round display with MVP and interesting fact about a player
Updated scoreboard with new icons, visual style, MVP stars, and avatar pictures
New cinematic death camera
New domination and revenge system
Added avatar icons to voice chat, scoreboard, and end of round display
Incorporated many source engine updates
Which the CSS kidies will moan about as it will become the "cool thing to do"
So then why are they moaning? i saw a thread yesterday mnoaning about lack of support....
goddamnit im so confused with them....
It's getting an updated engine, so parts of the game like recoil and apparently movement speed will change slightly, and with a game as balanced as CSS, it can change a lot.
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Hazro 24" | Logitech Illuminated | G500 | Creative 2.0 | Nikon D3100
People dont like change, tho hopefully itll fix CSS lol hitboxes where you hit people, they bleed and they take no damage, or like when u nail someone int he face 3 times on your screen and it registers as 24 in 3.
I'll stop playing CSS at the new update. I'm one of these tossers who does not like change when it comes to balance, changing movement speed will put me off too much that I won't be able to play properly xD
Take that ya one-eyed, bomb-lobbin', cactus eatin', pot bellied, thug fat jigglin-chicken whoopin' big, back-stabbin lob-armed creepy spastic bloody, blind-eyed pashy little twitchy pickle-headed rocke- hoppin, potato-poppin' phony two-faced stealthy mutant bastard!
I think the update will make CSS playable again to be honest. People are too awesome on most servers these days!
Deffo long live Steam, but they may simply be trying to boost the sales figures. Once they recoup the producton cost of the game, then they are only really paying for the bandwidth to send you the game, which is not that much. It's the same for iTunes - they make about 30p per song, after fees to the record company, artist and bandwidth, it's all profit.
Say for example Valve made a casual game for £500k. If they then sold it for £10.99, assuming the 99p is the bandwidth (this is all guesstimates, so not accurate at all, just showing the point), then they would need to sell 50000 units to recoup the costs of the production. But after they have done that, they could sell it for £2.99 and then make £2 profit as the costs of production have been paid off, and the 99p pays the bandwidth. This then brings in all the players holding out of purchasing the game in order for the price to drop, because they feel that the game is worth the lower price. So say they sold the 50k at £5.99, then sold another 30000 units at the £2.99 price, then over the course of the timeperiod, the venture in total has made a profit of £60,000, which can then be reinvested into development, upgrading services, or line the pockets of Gabe Newell.
It's an economics concept, the name of which escapes me, but it essentially (yes, it's back) stems down to something along the lines of this diagram;
This isn't exact, and the cost lines should be a lot lower, but those who understand it will get my gist.
Last edited by Isphera; 1st June 2010 at 01:51 AM.
Mitch, the blood + no damage is due to poor latency between client/server/client, where the game paints the blood but then realises that it wasn't a hit, but you can't erase blood from a character, and the 3 for 24 is just poor shooting
Take that ya one-eyed, bomb-lobbin', cactus eatin', pot bellied, thug fat jigglin-chicken whoopin' big, back-stabbin lob-armed creepy spastic bloody, blind-eyed pashy little twitchy pickle-headed rocke- hoppin, potato-poppin' phony two-faced stealthy mutant bastard!
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