Cyber X Games Cancelled

zerodamage · Jan 12, 2004, 03:16 AM

"A huge event funded by Microsoft, ATI and AMD has been hit by problems due to networking and patches. The event held in Las Vegas, America is tied with the Consumer Electronics Show 2004. A lot of blame has been put on a company who can't control source code leaks - Valve. The Cyber X team needed a 3MB file to patch systems ready to play the popular online game, Counterstrike. The file could only be obtained from Valves Steam network. Since there were 1000 or more computers, grabbing a patch of 3MB on each one fried one of Valves routers. According to the inquirer, emails between Cyber X staff and Valve weren't answered and no help was offered. If Valve weren't dead when the Half Life 2 source code leaked, they are now.

This didn't only affect Counterstrike gamers, it hit other gamers who had flown out from Europe to get to play. Intel sponsored team "4 Kings" from the UK were favorties to win the Return To Castle Wolfenstein tournament, according to some gamers the teams are splitting the prize money amongst them and are playing non competitive games. There maybe a smaller scale tournament held with prizes from the sponsors but this is unconfirmed. Online gaming struggles to become a spectator sport when events are not handled properly by those that organise and sponsor them."

Source: Neowin

BWX · Jan 12, 2004, 04:25 AM

"A lot of blame has been put on a company who can't control source code leaks - Valve."

Gee, what a surprise that is....

MSX · Jan 12, 2004, 08:27 PM

WTF anyway? If I were playing a CS tournament I'd ask someone from valve to have a disk image or CD for all of your machines. It's cyberx's own fault for not being prepared. Steam is a buggy POS and it's not like they didn't know.

Though it is kind of funny how people think the company is going to sink. I bet they're all salivating for HL2. Hell I'm willing to put up with steam on my machine to play HL2.

BWX · Jan 12, 2004, 09:37 PM

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Originally posted by MSX
WTF anyway? If I were playing a CS tournament I'd ask someone from valve to have a disk image or CD for all of your machines. It's cyberx's own fault for not being prepared. Steam is a buggy POS and it's not like they didn't know.

Though it is kind of funny how people think the company is going to sink. I bet they're all salivating for HL2. Hell I'm willing to put up with steam on my machine to play HL2.

If I buy HL2, and there is a hack that comes out to allow me to play it without steam, I will use it in a second- even if it's just for single player.

Jan 12, 2004, 03:16 AM	#1
zerodamage HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,478 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Cyber X Games Cancelled "A huge event funded by Microsoft, ATI and AMD has been hit by problems due to networking and patches. The event held in Las Vegas, America is tied with the Consumer Electronics Show 2004. A lot of blame has been put on a company who can't control source code leaks - Valve. The Cyber X team needed a 3MB file to patch systems ready to play the popular online game, Counterstrike. The file could only be obtained from Valves Steam network. Since there were 1000 or more computers, grabbing a patch of 3MB on each one fried one of Valves routers. According to the inquirer, emails between Cyber X staff and Valve weren't answered and no help was offered. If Valve weren't dead when the Half Life 2 source code leaked, they are now. This didn't only affect Counterstrike gamers, it hit other gamers who had flown out from Europe to get to play. Intel sponsored team "4 Kings" from the UK were favorties to win the Return To Castle Wolfenstein tournament, according to some gamers the teams are splitting the prize money amongst them and are playing non competitive games. There maybe a smaller scale tournament held with prizes from the sponsors but this is unconfirmed. Online gaming struggles to become a spectator sport when events are not handled properly by those that organise and sponsor them." Source: Neowin

Jan 12, 2004, 04:25 AM	#2
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,669 Rep Power: 110 System Specs	"A lot of blame has been put on a company who can't control source code leaks - Valve." Gee, what a surprise that is.... __________________

Jan 12, 2004, 08:27 PM	#3
MSX Burning the frozen... Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,201 Rep Power: 0	WTF anyway? If I were playing a CS tournament I'd ask someone from valve to have a disk image or CD for all of your machines. It's cyberx's own fault for not being prepared. Steam is a buggy POS and it's not like they didn't know. Though it is kind of funny how people think the company is going to sink. I bet they're all salivating for HL2. Hell I'm willing to put up with steam on my machine to play HL2.