I can't believe what i'm hearing, CS:S is a downside?- even some of the reviews reflected this. Maybe it's because I've been playing CS since the day it came out, but I honestly think it's one of the greatest games ever made.
CS is been-there done-that. I played the pants off of it when I was a sophomore in college, playing 4+ hours a day.
I've been out of school for almost 3 years, so it's been 5 years since I really played a lot of CS. I got tired of it for a reason - stupid community, annoying Dust, and just having played it a lot.
I want something new. CS is not something new, very little has changed from the time I stopped playing to now. Although CS dominated me the way no other multiplayer has come close, I find myself more interested in HL multiplayer than CS these days. I'm done with squads and teams, I just want to run around like a madman killing everything in sight.
I imagine several people feel this way. We've been in a small squad wave for a while, I want something retro. Retro and fun (Ut2K4 missed the "fun," in my opinion.)