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Everyone just loves untested forced updates. /s
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It's a shame that Valve couldn't get Steam to issue them a new AppID, so they had to delete CSGO in order to put CS2 on the store. It was the only way.
If only valve had any power over what happens in steam... oh well...
no, cs2 was always made to be update over csgo
Just read the offical blog post, it's not a different game, but huge update over it
I even remember them saying that they will update CS:GO with source engine 2... Which they literally did.
People got mad because it got a new name too for beta testing. "CS:GO 2"
What? Oh no why deleting the old game
I bought CSGO in 2015 and never had the chance to actually install it, do I get some extra content in cs2 or everything is lost?
Because it's a multiplayer game and they don't want to split the userbase.
And why is that anyones problem but Valve's?
Who else is hurt by having it split?
It doesn't hurt the players to have it split, so it feels like you are defending anti-consumer business practices just because its Valve.
I'm not defending anyone, it's just a fact. In my opinion it would be tolerable if they didn't cut content and if the performance was on par with the previous game.
Players are hurt from having it split. Way more so than Valve. In fact, I fail to see why Valve would be gaining anything, they aren't selling the missing parts.
When a game updates, do you keep matchmaking servers up for every old edition of the game? Place people in a different queue for every hotfix version they are on? When the game is updated often over a lifespan of 12 years? Then no one would be in any matchmaking, let alone enough people of your skill level.
If they marketed this as "CSGO: Source 2 engine update" people wouldn't be whining, so I don't understand why people go out of their way to make a big deal about this. We knew not all the content would be available at release when they completely rewrote and modernized the game's code.
And no anti-consumer business practices involved. You CAN play csgo still, if you want to. Sure, it's inconvenient to download an old version of the game to run, but it is also inconvenient to download an old version of any game to run in every case. Anyone saying CSGO is unplayable and "that's unfair because I paid for it" is maliciously spreading misinformation.
You get a couple badges :)
Everything is probably lost because it didn't detect you playing it.
Wait… what the fuck? Who cones up with those shitty ideas?
How about you make a game good enough that people switch from the older one willingly instead of forcing it down their throats?
they were never going to be able to release a totally new game without a lot of backlash from the ~~addict~~ skin trading communities. They wouldn't want to risk their free income from the whales by splitting the player base and eventually shunning the skin investors stuck on the old game.
You make older games better by updating them. This is an update.
Updates only make products worse, not better.
Lol
Because it was just an engine swap, not a new game.
Think of the skins