Evening Reading: tl;dr Games?
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And with that, here's the gaming news of the day:
All the rest:-
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someone unplugged the internet
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Scheduled down time: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=15320942#post15320942
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Thank you Mike Blaszczak.
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yeah thats really weird. im still surprised cs and css are still popular and nothing has replaced it.
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I don't actually know a single person on my friends list who actually plays it, and i've got knocking on 100+ friends. Is it possible that the counted players are just bots? or does it actually count steam player accounts?
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I think the negative part of its success was the rising of consumer expectations for the "acceptable quality" of a mod, and how it resulted in the acceptance of less mods, to the point where some PC game developers stopped caring about even allowing mods (like Infinity Ward with MW2).
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That's part of it. Basically, if your mod isn't a total conversion, probably in the form of objective-based teamplay, it's dead.
Of course, because of how absurdly popular Counterstrike became, even if your mod is a total conversion in the form of objective-based teamplay, it's probably dead. Nobody plays anything but Counterstrike, so nobody leaves Counterstrike, so nobody plays anything but Counterstrike. This even affects AAA titles to some degree.
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I really find it hard to blame this on CS at all. Although I can see how you'd arrive at that conclusion.
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There are a few people who post here whom I've known for years online, who work for game developers, who would also say that you're so wrong, that you're an idiot.
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And then there are people like this:
"We would like you to play the game the way we designed and balanced it." -- VInce Zampella, Infinity Ward, November 3, 2009
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Well the zombie mod in Cs lead directly to left 4 dead and left 4 dead 2. Both games created by Turtle Rock studio dev team of Valve. I don't see that being a bad thing.
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