Valve Opens up 'Counter-Stike: Global Offensive' Beta - Fill Out a Survey and Hope

[TheDickWard]

The latest version of the legendary shooter will be playable early by a few lucky people.

http://blog.counter-strike.net/index...012/02/survey/

[twonunpackmule]

There's fine print, in that they'll only be selecting users who are active in the community.

*Ah, just saw this is the OTHER one.

[Krawk]

I played and ran a very successful CS 1.X server for many years. The players voted in my forums to switch to Source, in which I did. Server ended up...R.I.P. Looks like 1.x Still has MANY players. After that debacle I chose to turn it off.
The problem is that each version that came out brought on "improvements" that pissed many people off. I would hate to wonder what has "improved" with Global Offensive.

[twonunpackmule]

1.5 was and will always be my favorite. I just wished they would fix the snipers. They are incredibly overpowered. But, the fans would cry foul if they fixed it. Though, I'm curious if GO will tackle that. I know the shields were suppose to do that, but they were incredibly glitchy. They should have fixed it, not get rid of them.

[CorruptedDragon]

I've always loved CS but gave it up back in 2007. I ran a server myself tha was typically always full and stayed that way even after we switched to source. Eventually it became a 24/7 office server which was still always full. I ended up moving in late 2006 and just ran out of time really for running the thing. I handed it off to some of the guys in my clan but by the end of 2007 it was only running at 1/3 full and had switched from office to some weird map i had never heard of. After that it was soon gone.

[twonunpackmule]

I stopped playing CS around the release of CS 1.6. It was the death of the game for me, and the server I played on every night - during the week - for 3 years went under. They stayed 1.5 though, even through all the "upgrading." They decided the game was too glitchy to be worth the upgrade, and people still came.