Counter-Strike: Source/Half-Life 2 Preloads

**MIG-31** · Aug 11, 2004, 05:18 PM

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)."
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Source: bluesnews

Thanks go to Jarka Ruus for the information.

~~REGENERAT1ON~~ · Aug 11, 2004, 10:30 PM

Valve never stand in their timeline. and they acting lame (aggerisive marketing, and pissing over their customers,buggy software,doing everything so the community will hate them,ignoring everyone,never appericate the customers)

pr0digal jenius · Aug 11, 2004, 10:49 PM

jst cuz valve loads it doesn't mean it's done

~~REGENERAT1ON~~ · Aug 11, 2004, 10:53 PM

its done. Valve just playing around.. trying to promote their cybercafe project(marketing) acting really lame..
1000 cybercafes vs 100000000000 customers.. pfft..

Nacht · Aug 11, 2004, 11:06 PM

great great...and just a year late eh?

Aug 11, 2004, 05:18 PM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,818 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	Counter-Strike: Source/Half-Life 2 Preloads 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)." _______________ Source: bluesnews Thanks go to Jarka Ruus for the information. __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

Aug 11, 2004, 10:30 PM	#2
~~REGENERAT1ON~~ NGO Crew Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 409 Rep Power: 0	Valve never stand in their timeline. and they acting lame (aggerisive marketing, and pissing over their customers,buggy software,doing everything so the community will hate them,ignoring everyone,never appericate the customers) Last edited by REGENERAT1ON; Aug 11, 2004 at 10:37 PM.

Aug 11, 2004, 10:49 PM	#3
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	jst cuz valve loads it doesn't mean it's done

Aug 11, 2004, 10:53 PM	#4
~~REGENERAT1ON~~ NGO Crew Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 409 Rep Power: 0	its done. Valve just playing around.. trying to promote their cybercafe project(marketing) acting really lame.. 1000 cybercafes vs 100000000000 customers.. pfft..

Aug 11, 2004, 11:06 PM	#5
Nacht ein Krieger Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Clemson Uni Posts: 3,127 Rep Power: 0	great great...and just a year late eh?