WON Shutdown Soon

Couldn't this be circumvented with some clever third party tool? Like a WON-emulator or something?

And doesn't this leave people who want to play other (albeit older) WON-games, like SoF, shit outta luck?

has steam prevented cheating?
I know that was part of the reason for having it.

Good thing I said "no" to installing WON's software when I downloaded that Ground Control freebie a couple of weeks ago.

Well guess that's the end of CS for me.

Hearing all those horror stories of Steam sitting there for days trying to download stuff isn't gonna make me want to install it.

Why can't they just keep WON alive, it's not having a server or two to validate clients is a big drain on their resources.

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<fuming reply to steam take-over and phasing out of WON CS1.5 support>
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</stupidity>

*bends over and takes it from the steam powered cock and white 1.6 ejaculation*

*end of homoerotic fantasies*

Does this only affect CS? Or is this shutdown for ALL of WON? There's more games then CS using WON you know...

Kiss your ass goodbye poor assholes on 56k

What was it called for before WON? Back in the outpost 2 days, when men were men, and I was voluntarily "advanced".

THE END IS NEAR!! OMG THE END I SAY, VALVE WILL TAKE OVER OUR COMPUTERS AND KILL US ALL!! 1.5 FOREVER

:D There's just something ironic about all those computer nerds out there that are afraid of change. If they'd been born just 10 years or more earlier, they'd have been bitching about how their company is forcing them to learn how to use a computer for work, and how the old way worked just fine.

Still can't play CS through Steam on my comp, have followed all the general troubleshooting instructions on the forums including reinstalling, deleting the blob, recreating the account folder. I even filed two reports on the Steam Troubleshooting page, and haven't received a response. Steam is just crap.

This doesn't really affect me, so I don't really care one way or the other what Valve does. I do, however, dislike the whole concept behind steam. I hate to say this, but I hope this backfires on them...badly.

mabey faggots will stop playing ONLY CS at lan parties now

Steam can be played in offline mode so for those of you thinking no more cs at lans, well your wrong. But cs at lans is so true though.

GJ Valve, piss off all those "hardcore" CS 1.5 trolls...

Oh boy, bring on the idiotic anti-steam kiddies..

fricken steam, my 80 gig was filled up and I didn't know why. Looked in the steam folder and there was a 15 gig file. Needless to say, I deleted steam and reinstalled 1.5. Guess it's all comin down now...

fuckers

Not a fan of Steam. I don't like having to load an extra client. Even for single player, wtf? I don't care if it only takes up 500k of memory (I'm sure it doesn't), it just seems like a waste of effort.

I'm glad id isn't going this way.

The biggest issues people have had with steam have not been the client, they have been buggy updates that valve has released. I think they have taken some steps to increase the quality of their updates (and reduce the frequency - note that we see updates every couple of weeks instead of every wednesday).

The client itself hasn't been bad. They had some issues over the first 3-6 months, but over the past 6 i haven't had any steam problems that i can recall.

It's unfortunate that the steam forums get dragged down into a constant "omg wtf" fest instead of a more productive method of bug reporting and feedback. It has taken some time but valve has addressed all the issues i have seen with steam, so i have some confidence that if people could properly communicate their problems to valve, they'd get addressed.

Steam is intergrated with HL2, so get used to it.

Steam was giving me a crap load of problems when it first came out, but now it runs flawlessly. Way better then WON imo.

No more CS for my local LAN center now =/

never had a single major problem with steam... loved it from the day i installed it. no more running around the net looking for a mirror.. reading install instructions or other bullshit... just click, go to lunch, come back and play.

Well, I guess this means I'd better send in my cd key to get it reset for steam. Piece of crap steam won't accept my cd key for some reason even though I bought hl years ago.

I like Steam, but hopefully this will piss off so many "WON RULZ STEAM SUX" circles that other games will get a chance to grow an online community.

Finally.

It's a shame that steam has been given such a bad name, because it does work quite well.

I know my friends who still play counter-strike all play 1.5, I for one will laugh heartily when I give them this news.

OMG STEAM IS SO HORRIBLE!! jesus

Wow I read that as WOW on the sidebar, I was WTF for a moment

This is just flat stupid. Are they going to refund my money if I can't play because of Steam? Probably not.

Hmmm, kinda scary, but hopefully it'll go smoothly.