Counter-Strike: Source/Half-Life 2 Preloads [Aug 11, 2004, 09:47 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Gabe Newell made a couple of posts to the
Half-Life 2 Fallout Forums about plans for Counter-Strike: Source and
Half-Life 2 data preloads on Steam in preparation for the release of each.
Regarding Counter-Strike: Source, he says this in one post: "Just got out of a
review meeting. 8/11 the Cafe's turn on (tomorrow). 8/16 CZ/ATI users pre-load.
8/18 CZ/ATI turns on," and in a subsequent post: "The engine test (CS:Source
plus de_dust) for cyber-cafe's started pre-loading at 6." There are also posts
on the
Steam Users Forums indicating that Valve has started to pre-load
Counter-Strike for some end-users (thanks Stoo). The first post also has word
from Gabe on plans to start preloading art and sound assets for Half-Life 2: "8/17, HL-2
pre-load starts (textures, audio and other stuff that doesn't change)."
"For all the crap that Valve has thrown at them (some of it deserved) they are the only ones that are trying to address the current f**ked up system that PC games go through to get distributed."
Not really. Stardock's been doing it for a long while now, not just for games, either. Galactic Civilizations was released in an online form. And, unlike Steam, it hasn't hosed up the game it was updating.
Not really. Stardock's been doing it for a long while now, not just for games, either. Galactic Civilizations was released in an online form. And, unlike Steam, it hasn't hosed up the game it was updating.
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