Steam For Cyber Café And Natural Selection
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Join Date: 2003-07-19 Member: 18265Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Gold
Join Date: 2003-07-19 Member: 18265Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Gold
<div class="IPBDescription">A question to the team</div> We are going to sign in for the official ValvE Cyber Café program.. so will be officially host competition of mods. ValvE also send posters to the Cyber Café for free....... i know that Natural Selection will be officially supported by Steam, so can i have NS materials instead of other things?
Is there an agreement with ValvE about NS or not?
Is there an agreement with ValvE about NS or not?
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yes, that has already been confirmed wayyyy back sometimes ago <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
After many months of work, Cory "Squeal Like a Pig" Strader presents to the mapping community a massive new texture set for use for NS maps! He has created nearly 300 new hand-painted textures, which will form the basis of a fresh new look for NS. The upcoming NS v2.1 patch will include these textures (many of the new Combat maps and NS maps use these). This download is only for people actively creating NS maps, and the file can be found in the NS mapping forums (check the FAQ).
Here are a few screenshots showing some of these luscious textures in action.
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Work continues on NS v2.1, and we are now actively testing in Steam. VALVe has pledged to make NS officially available on Steam, so it will automatically update itself, and give you all the advantages that Steam provides! It will also include the hot new Combat game mode (see previous news post below), many new maps, 3rd-person reload animations, and more. It is under heavy testing now, and will be released shortly.
We also have a little surprise in store for our Constellation members, coming shortly. Stay tuned guys, you should be receiving e-mail soon.
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this is the official news relese that is still on the front page, open yur eyes dood!!!!
It probably goes something like that anyway.
The EULA does state that you can not charge people to play HL or CS via the internet basically via Steam
So Valve, have created the cybercafe program:
For $10 per PC per month youg et access to all steam games, more secuirty (i.e. your users can't delete the games) and promotional stuff
or
pay $108 per year per account.
Say a Cybercafe owns 20 pcs, thats either $2400 (via $10 amonth) or $2160 (via $108 yearly)
But Cybercafes atm do have to buy one retail copy per pc. However, that is a one off fee. But, if we compare the two..
So, if Valve release 3 games over the next year (eg HL2, TF2, CS:CZ) then under the old system they would need to buy each seperately via retail at a cost of approx $150. The Cyber Cafe program gives access to these games for just $108.
If we use my exmaple of 20 pcs thats $840 saved that year.
However, that is only looking at the short-term and doesnt consider the fact that the games valve release may not be popular and so may not have otherwise been purchased and what happens the next year will another 3 games be released?
p.s. This information was gathered from <a href='http://www.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=31' target='_blank'>here</a> As i am a regualr reader of the steam forums and thought id share this with you.
p.p.s. sorry if this post has gone slightly off topic
EDIT: Fixed Typos (I hope)
Ps: if you want to read more about the Cyber Cafè Program check the Steam forum, a lot of people are posting that it costs to much but... no one reply, also via email nothing, nothig if you only asks thing and then valve invite you to write.