Steam beta didn't even really start

Vulcan · Registered User Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 2773

It looks like people got their hands on steam a little too early. Valve doesn't know a thing that they are doing I guess, they maxed out the steam servers before the beta even officially began. More of this can be found on planethalflife's site.
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DaKon · Ville Supporter Joined: 19 Feb 2002 Posts: 2342

From planet HL:

Thursday · January 16 · 2003

Steam 2.0 Beta, Counter-Strike 1.6 CANCELED!
1/16/2003 15:00 PST | Counter-strike | by Fragmaster | Comment!
This just in from Valve's Doug Lombardi:
Steam Beta 2.0 Admission Suspended
The Counter-Strike and Team Fortress communities have maxed out the Steam 2.0 beta servers, resulting in the temporarily suspension of admission to the beta as more content servers are put online. The current Steam content servers offer over 500 megabits of bandwidth, all of which the community is consuming right now.

Anyone interested in hosting a Steam content server should email biz@steampowered.com. (Content server requirements can be found at www.steampowered.com.)

Those who have already joined the beta are encouraged to continue their participation and submit their feedback.

That's right, Steam got maxed out before the beta test even officially started!
Frankly, I think Valve made a huge mistake here: Steam obviously isn’t ready, so why use it to release a new version of possibly the most popular online PC game in the world? In my opinion, they should have released CS 1.6 as a downloadable patch - just like all the previous updates - and used Steam 2.0 to test changes to TFC.

Due to leaked Steam clients, Steam was already overloaded an hour before the offical release. Steam's main menu won't even load for me right now. Oh, by the way, even if you already have CS 1.5 you'll still have to download 409 MB of content(!!!). And if you’re a modem user, you’re basically completely out of luck, even when the Steam beta is officially released. Sorry. So what do you think? Mail Us!
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Stevo · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 11:15 pm Post subject:

Vulcan · Registered User Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 2773

Dahak · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 11:43 pm Post subject:

i'm updating now..
122 minutes and 20 seconds left

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of course this would be a lot faster if valve had better servers :p

steam will eventually take over HL, there wo'nt be regular patches anymore.

DaKon · Ville Supporter Joined: 19 Feb 2002 Posts: 2342

My Personal Insanity · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 1:09 am Post subject:

Right now Gabe Newell is looking at his badwidth bills and is
having kittens, perhaps several litters of kittens.

BTW, does anyone know what the heck they mean by this
line out of the changelog:

"Fixed problem with AC gun never dry firing."

I should certainly hope it never dry fires, none of the other
weapons do! WTF?

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Vulcan · Registered User Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 2773

Dahak · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 9:45 am Post subject:

well, 56ker's would only have problems when downloading the patches.. other then that it would the be the same as launching reg HL. steam allows for a greater frequency of patch fixes/ Valve Anti-Cheat additions, etc. Instead of waiting 2 years for a bug to be fixed, it can be fixed immediately.

Last Of The Finest · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 10:26 am Post subject:

Blown · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 10:56 am Post subject:

I have cd's coming out my a##, so if someone is on 56k and cant download it, I would probably do it for ya and send it to ya.

(+)ASSASSIN(+) · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 1:39 pm Post subject:

Blown · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 2:40 pm Post subject:

My Personal Insanity · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 6:23 pm Post subject:

deadprez · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 6:49 pm Post subject: