Meeble
join:2002-09-19
Champaign, IL
| a lot of people missing the point [as usual]
.steam is still beta
.cs 1.6 is still beta
they opted for and open beta test rather than a closed one for several reasons - one of which were so many people complaining about lack of CS updates, the other obviously promoting steam.
1.6 will be available for straight up download as well as through steam when completed and RELEASED as a FINAL, look for v1.7 and on to be steam powered only. That was always their plan, read the articles. This whole thing is an open beta, many of you obviously don't program and don't get what that is. There's no need to sink endless amounts of $$$$ in 1000's of servers so they can monitor all the text based conversations of 12 yr olds saying how l337 they are. The servers are open to gather bug data and reliability testing, not there to let you play.
please read the entire article and press releases before posting 'st34m sux0rz, 1'm L337' |
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jekler
join:2000-11-23
Cincinnati, OH
clubs:
| "Open beta" is an oxymoron. The idea of a beta test is to test a product among a select group of loyal customers. If a system is properly engineered, testing it with 100 people is just as good as testing it with 100,000 people because the system will scale nicely, needing x amount of bandwidth and other resources per user. The idea of an open beta has nothing to do with testing, it's all about marketing. Software companies run an "open beta test" so they can gather public support for an upcoming product. They call it an 'open beta test' so they can conveniently fall back on the excuse "It was just a beta test anyway, we didn't expect it to work properly."
said by Meeble  :
This whole thing is an open beta, many of you obviously don't program and don't get what that is.
Whether or not the people participating in a test know anything about programming or not isn't an issue. The idea of any testing phase of a product that involves a customer should not require the testers to have any technical knowledge. If you're testing with end-users, the idea is that the product is fit for their use. If needing to understand the production cycle of software is a pre-requisite for the test you're about to run, then the system is not prepared for an end-user test.
Jekler |
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Meeble
join:2002-09-19
Champaign, IL
| reply to Meeble
you're correct but the test was originally cs1.6 only now it ends up from what I was told integrating steam 2.0 in later on - which caused most of the problems. steam is obviously not ready for full usage. Valve would have been better served to keep the tests closed and out of the media like most companies do, but they put it out there and gave a lot of us the chance to use it and I thank them for that. there were so many msg on there stating it was a beta and to report any problems to xxxxx that to expect it to run almost flawlessly etc would be ignorant. CS 1.6 won't be out on steam as final for awhile - i would guess condition zero will be released first. |
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