Everyone just loves untested forced updates. /s
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.
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?
why deleting the old game
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.
If you bought CSGO, you automatically got access to prime mode when the game went free to play.
It’s a separate matchmaking pool that puts you in servers filled with only other people who also bought the game, substantially reducing the likelihood of encountering cheaters and bots who just make endless free accounts.
This also carries over into CS2 as far as I’m aware.
Funny, on release day, I got downvoted for pointing out they pulled a Blizzard/Overwatch 2.
Half-baked release with missing content and no new content? Check.
Release removes previous release, a game that was at one time a paid game? Check.
I feel like Valve gets way too much of a pass here on this for just being Valve.
CS:GO is still there btw, under the beta options
I’ve been having a ball with CS2, and I think releasing at it as a separate game to CSGO would only fragment the player base.
Sure, but a fragmented player base impacts Valve’s bottom line more than anything else, so I don’t understand why this is an argument.
Oh no! A few thousand players will stay on the old game while the new one will still absolutely dominate the charts because people like new and novel.
Genuinely, who would that deeply affect outside of Valve trying to make sure the player base is all on the current game to make the most money? Why are we defending business practices that are clearly aimed at making the most profit at the expense of customer service?
Weren’t we all supposed to be Valve fans because we expect better of them?
If you look at steam charts you’ll see that it’s not the case that everyone switched to CSGO when it released. Most states on 1.6 or CSS. The player base was so fragmented that they had folks from 2 games migrating slowly.
Hm, it’s playable for me
Same for me on fedora
I didn’t realize that they replaced cs:go with cs2 until I was home and noticed an update to install cs2… if it was an independent launch, that would not happen.
The only CS game I’ve played somewhat recently is cs:go, so I put two and two together (ha, pun), and groaned.
I thought valve was better than this.
Ong why did they not just keep csgo on steam and release cs2 beside it or wait until cs2 is atleast playable on linux
To keep thousands of now irrelevant reviews, allow themselves to remonetize content and jumpstart a player base that now has no other choice but to switch.
Tbf they’re KEEPING ALL cosmetics unlike fucking overwatch
CSGO is still in CS2’s beta channel on Steam as csgo_demo_viewer or something like that, but obviously limited to community servers/offline play, no official dedicated servers.
to prevent fragmenting the player base
Played hours on CS2 yesterday… ran perfectly fine on my Arch installation… haven’t experienced these issues…
They fixed most of it with a recent patch I think
It started with lagging. While loading the game. Classic lagging as in the dark filter fading out flimmering. Then CS2 kept rapidly switching between Fullscreen and Windowed, on sway. Then it randomly froze. My whole system. No luck with even switching to another TTY. So I force rebooted after 10 mins. Started into clearing orphaned inodes, then staying on that message. Force rebooted again. Still stuck at “Arch_Linux_boot: clean, x/x files, x/x blocks”.
CS2 basically just broke my PC.
I will never touch it again. I predicted it was going to be trash, not gameplay wise but programmatically.
Why install it if you think it’s trash
To see if their guess might have been wrong?
Why do I feel like giving this a month will make all of this irrelevant?
but this is a crime against God, humanity, gaming and anime!!!
I get it, your favorite game doesn’t work because of a new release. It happens. Take a ticket and sit down for a while. Valve isn’t omniscient about every Linux build in existence or possible glitch on the first week of release.
Hell, TF2 has been broken on arch for almost a month without bypassing a .dll file.
I remember when games launched and generally could be expected to run, because easy patching wasn’t a thing yet. They had to make sure that the games worked.
I don’t like that this has moved to “well, it’s just the first day, week, month, give them time to fix the game.” No! When the game releases and people pay money for it, it should work!
oh you mean back in the day when games were way simpler? come on man games these days are so much more complex.
We are talking about Counter Strike. Nothing has fundamentally changed in 2 decades.
To be fair, at the time games were made to target a single system, not a myriad of them.
anybody that is in here complaining they can’t play this game on Linux should seriously evaluate their life choices, instead of whining maybe you should just install Windows
Because of comments like this I am missing the downvote button on my instance…
I guess wanting to play a game that’s replacing a game that runs well on Linux and is made by the company that has done the most to improve Linux gaming while using an OS that doesn’t spy on you and treat you like a toddler is a poor life choice according to you?
Maybe some of us have things we care about more than just maximum game compatibility. The horror.
