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Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by Grimm1 »

jfkebwjsbx wrote: post #296
Grimm1 wrote: post #287

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_platform The average non-technical person isn't installing unsigned software on Mac or Windows, and the average person isn't using Linux at all so it's not worth considering in this conversation. For all intents and purposes, approved windows applications and mac app store apps are what they get.

> The average non-technical person isn't installing unsigned software on Mac or Windows False. The average non-technical person is installing unsigned software from Steam and other cross-platform game stores. In fact, the vast majority of all PC/Mac users play games downloaded from Steam and similar stores, not from the Microsoft/Apple stores. > the average person isn't using Linux at all so it's not worth considerin…

"Nevertheless, my counter is: why does "the web" try to recreate existing technologies and operating systems?"

Was your exact statement so I'm not talking about just games and limiting it to them after the fact is disingenuous.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by anewdirection »

sumnole wrote: post #231
ta17711771 wrote: post #224

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Seriously sick of hearing this. The Internet has been "toxic and racist" since, oh, the first chat room... Kiddies in a game can't hurt you. Worry about the important shit, like being killed or thrown in a cage by law enforcement.

Food for thought: kiddies playing games might one day work in law enforcement

Law enforcement that gets triggered by insults seems pretty dangerous too tbh.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by anewdirection »

cellularmitosis wrote: post #236
BiasRegularizer wrote: post #169

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FYI the creators are actually charging $2/week subscription for this game. Profiting from a cracked software definitely crosses some moral boundaries.

Does it? It has been over 20 years. Should a creator be able to profit indefinitely off a single work? 20 years is long enough for a patent to expire. The fact that copyright outlasts patents is really just a corruption bug in our legal system.

Yes it does. The creators also maintained that code, and the other intellectual property, by expabding on it with source and csgo. While I am nobody to poopoo piracy, this is a piss poor justification.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by ta17711771 »

rootlocus wrote: post #239
ta17711771 wrote: post #224

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Seriously sick of hearing this. The Internet has been "toxic and racist" since, oh, the first chat room... Kiddies in a game can't hurt you. Worry about the important shit, like being killed or thrown in a cage by law enforcement.

Are you trying to justify online toxicity and unsportsmanship in multiplayer video games by comparing them with the tragedy of George Floyd?

I...what?

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by ta17711771 »

rootlocus wrote: post #239
ta17711771 wrote: post #224

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Seriously sick of hearing this. The Internet has been "toxic and racist" since, oh, the first chat room... Kiddies in a game can't hurt you. Worry about the important shit, like being killed or thrown in a cage by law enforcement.

Are you trying to justify online toxicity and unsportsmanship in multiplayer video games by comparing them with the tragedy of George Floyd?

You think he's the only person/race very ng killed by police, then, you're the problem.

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Post by anthk »

JakeTheAndroid wrote: post #204
jfkebwjsbx wrote: post #200

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I simply stated that downloading dozens of gigabytes from a link is far from ideal. You also lose performance, features, community, and everything a place like Steam gives you. > Why does HN love to rag on web technologies so much? HN is quite pro-web and there are dozens of startups based on the web. Nevertheless, my counter is: why does "the web" try to recreate existing technologies and operating systems?

I mean, before Steam this was basically the state of gaming. No community, limited features, spotty performance. This is just teething issues. There is no reason a platform like Stadia can't work in the future as these things get better. And, in terms of downloading gigs from afar, you're already doing that, but instead of being able to play games while downloading you have to wait to download 60gb of COD updates, co…

>No community, limited features, spotty performance.

GameSpy.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by 07t15 »

ionwake wrote: post #286
anoraca wrote: post #243

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Valorant appears to me to be an uninspired clone with a few gimmicks and a lot of marketing money behind it. It's the same way that LoL was a clone of DotA with extra marketing and a few gimmicks. I don't understand why anyone knowledgeable would be installing a "free" game that includes a kernel level rootkit. https://www.techspot.com/news/84841-valorant-anti-cheat-soft...

I believe you are wrong , Dota2 was a rip off of LOL. Interesting you mention the root kit - you realise Steam monitors urls Your machine has visited right? They also didn’t confirm whether or not these are then uploaded to their servers.

Dota 2 was a (almost carbon) copy of a DotA map for Warcraft III (there was even a settlement between Blizzard and Valve about this). Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but it makes more sense to claim that LoL was inspired by a DotA map.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by ohnope »

mywittyname wrote: post #122
m0ck wrote: post #101

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Cracked (non-steam) CS 1.6 clients are available for years and I don't think Valve ever cared.

It was never difficult to play CS for free, and that's probably the reason for its success. I remember getting into CS because you could play online with basically any Half-life product key and by 2000 you could buy bundles that came with like 3-4 keys.

I think CS, in that era, was free if you had a HL product key. It was a community mod and even when it transitioned to a boxed standalone product you could still download it if you had a HL key. CS: Source was also a free upgrade.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by ric2b »

ionwake wrote: post #286
anoraca wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Valorant appears to me to be an uninspired clone with a few gimmicks and a lot of marketing money behind it. It's the same way that LoL was a clone of DotA with extra marketing and a few gimmicks. I don't understand why anyone knowledgeable would be installing a "free" game that includes a kernel level rootkit. https://www.techspot.com/news/84841-valorant-anti-cheat-soft...

I believe you are wrong , Dota2 was a rip off of LOL. Interesting you mention the root kit - you realise Steam monitors urls Your machine has visited right? They also didn’t confirm whether or not these are then uploaded to their servers.

The '2' in the name should clue you in to its inspiration, which was not LoL.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by ric2b »

nwmcsween wrote: post #311
nthitz wrote: post #211

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What areas does CS:GO fall short in when compared to 1.6?

Different style fps's, 1.6 was low latency, the newer versions of basically any fps trade off latency for better graphics and better physics.

It's quite easy to get 200+ fps on CS:GO, and that's with max graphics settings or very close.
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