Another interesting strategy... from Valve

[vertetski]

Something I noticed. In the past I've often visited the cs:source part of this forum.
Back then, and I speak two weeks ago max, there was an average of two or three viewers while the HL2 part had an average of 100 viewers.
Since a couple of days the counterstrike part increased with over thirty times as much users as the weeks before.
U can say what u want of the strategies from Valve, but i think they are damn effective, dirty but effective. :bonce:

[Gunner]

Why dirty? they release media, everyone wants more information it's normal, what's so dirty about it?

[Mr-Fusion]

The dirty part is media is released and no product is seen for years at a time.

The waiting between media and release is always too long.

[H2HSnake]

i dunno what they're trying to do , they could show some DoD:Source movies lol

[TheWart]

Or they could release some HQ CS:S footage....no more shakycam.

[111111]

hehe, it wasnt really anything to do with valve (well it sort of was) but many e-sports sites advertisng the no shield thred/info which got a lot of people to come on. Such as http://www.schroet.com/scenenews.php?id=4981 . Now just this site has more than 300,000 members... so i would think a lot came from here :)