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by Jeff Mattas, Oct 31, 2011 1:15pm PDTApparently, some professional Counter-Strike 1.6 players apparently don't feel that the upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is quite ready for prime-time, yet. Based on the feedback they've received, Valve has elected to delay the 10,000-person closed beta for the game, which was originally planned to launch in October.
Valve's Chet Faliszek didn't have a new date for the closed beta to share, but when it finally does launch, the core focus will to be address any hardware compatibility issues that come to light. "The biggest thing of those first 10,000 is we have to look at percentage of crashes. You can argue with us on bullet-spray patterns and all kind of things, but crashes? There's really no argument for that. It shouldn't be happening."
Faliszek told Eurogamer that the closed beta will only include one or two maps. Sixteen maps are promised at launch, including eight classic maps and eight "Gun Game" maps. He also explained that the beta ends, "When the community tells us. It ends when it's ready." That said, the beta will continue to be refined, updated, and include more users until everyone is playing the final release.
As one would expect, the delay ultimately impacts the projected release window, which has been "early 2012," up to this point. Extra game modes--like zombie and deathmatch--are expected to arrive post-launch.
"We have no mandate from anybody of when we have to ship this," Faliszek explained. "So we're more than happy to just keep working on this 'til it's ready to ship."
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Both the closed beta and the launch of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive have been delayed due to the feedback of professional CS 1.6 players.
Both the closed beta and the launch of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive have been delayed due to the feedback of professional CS 1.6 players. : Shacknews
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That's kinda my problem with Valve right now. They've got everything down to a science and they're doing all this feedback with 1.6 players and frankly they don't seem to have the balls to try to do anything new anymore. Maybe they never really did. Portal, L4D, Dota, Alien Swarm, TF, CS, DoD were all developed or inspired by others. Valve certainly put their time in, I'm not trying to take that away from them, but instead of going with CS2 they go with a remake of CS and then worry about what 1.6 players think. That'd be like DICE giving a shit what BF1942 players think of BF3 on the time between the 2 games is even longer. TF2 was original. I'll take that part back. And look how successful that was. I'm sure CS:GO will do fine, but as far as Valve games go, I'm gonna bet on a "flop" (relatively speaking).
Love it or hate, Steam is the place for the very popular Call of Duty series. There's also BF3 out there and tons of other "tactical" or tactical-like games out there. What is CS:GO offering that other iterations of CS or these other popular series aren't? Honestly, I don't see anything to be excited about. Remakes of maps? Official gun game and zombie mode? Come on...
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