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Valve just pulled a Blizzard and seems to have gotten away with it. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I find it odd there has been very little noise about this. Like sweet its awesome to see that there is a new Counter strike and the features they are adding seem awesome. People were very angry when Blizzard did this same exact thing, where is the anger right now about this?

I'm not here to say Valve should forever support their games, its just seems weird to kill it when there are fundamental differences between the games. Kill the official servers, that is fine since the community will just adjust and host their own servers but basically zapping the game out of existence seems wrong and it continues the worrying trends we have that can revolve around game preservation.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What are you talking about?

Not only Counter Strike: GO is over 10 years old, Valve games can be hosted with Valve's official blessing even when they drop support. There are still people who play Counter Strike 1.6 today. This is nothing like what Blizzard did to Overwatch.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think he's referring to the fact that Counterstrike 2 literally replaced CS:GO. You can no longer access it in any form.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Alright, I see the issue. Even then that's not technically true. I would say it's not user friendly, but CS:GO is still counted as a previous version of CS 2, and you can access and host older versions of Valve games. Here's a guide for that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Oh word, I didn't realize that. I'm glad that's an option.

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