CS 1.6 Ads: Now Screening

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Awoken again is the discussion of advertisement placing in Counter-Strike v1.6, recently revealed to be appearing on the popular online PC title in the near future. CS-Nation has published some intriguing new revelations, that is, you can partake in a beta of this new system now - You know, so you can complain and present real evidence to your arguments.

To run this beta version you will need to add -beta cs to your command line when you start Steam. This can be done by opening up the Windows shortcut you use to launch Steam and adding -beta cs right after Steam.exe. Please report any bugs or issue you find in this article.

Images courtesy of clan SK

Valve has extended details of the beta on their developer Wiki page located here. Remember, after beta comes the official launch of a project. This means, advertisements will soon become permanent to all users; You have no choice in whether you can view them or not.

[Qonfused]

Hmm.

That looks more awkward than I imagined. Maybe if they blended the ads into the levels a bit more. For example, there could be ads instead of motivational posters in Office, and maybe a more grittier version in Dust. The screenshot from Dust just seems too out of place. The ads on the scoreboard are just fine.

[DigiQ8]

Originally Posted by Qonfused

Hmm.

That looks more awkward than I imagined. Maybe if they blended the ads into the levels a bit more. For example, there could be ads instead of motivational posters in Office, and maybe a more grittier version in Dust. The screenshot from Dust just seems too out of place. The ads on the scoreboard are just fine.

same =\

[CodeFire]

Reminds me of when EA made crappy ad's for BF:2142. I rarly play CS. I really don't want to play online games with ad's. If it goes to far then I guess I will not play games anymore, just mods. That or find ways around them. Hey, I can't wait to play HL2: Ep2 with big huge ad's that will make the game suck.

[Evo]

Well as long as they are only Valve related ones i'd be happy with it

[Mutley]

I wouldn't expect people playing 1.6 would have a good PC to be able to run HL2/Portal? Should of done it on the CSS market.

[jondy]

Originally Posted by Evo

Well as long as they are only Valve related ones i'd be happy with it

I doubt they're keeping the ads Valve-only if they've drafted in an agency to sort them out.

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Originally Posted by Mutley

I wouldn't expect people playing 1.6 would have a good PC to be able to run HL2/Portal? Should of done it on the CSS market.

Thought the same myself... But I think these ads are specific to the beta, and different ones will start appearing later.

[nutcrackr]

look a lot worse than the 2142 ads.

[MultiVaC]

The ads are MUCH worse than I expected. Funny how they hardly ever update their games and can't get new ones out on time, but when it comes to the one update that nobody wants because it actually makes the game undeniably worse it's the one thing that goes as promised.

[polyguns]

Originally Posted by Evo

Well as long as they are only Valve related ones i'd be happy with it

Whats your logic there?

[CodeFire]

Originally Posted by nutcrackr

look a lot worse than the 2142 ads.

Yeah, they really are. Atleast the 2142 ad's blend into the game. There are ways around it.

[simon]

Those are some of the worst out of place ads I have ever seen... (instead of nicely adding them to the environment). Lucky I don't play CSS anymore ;p

[diluted]

That does look pretty out of place..

Like others have said, I don't really mind ads on the scoreboard or when you join a server, but plastering them all over existing maps just ruins the look of them. If they actually designed the map so that the ads blended in to the environment (billboards, etc) it wouldn't be as bad.

[Evo]

Originally Posted by polyguns

Whats your logic there?

That i don't play 1.6 and don't really care