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Everyone just loves untested forced updates. /s

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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What? Oh no why deleting the old game

I bought CSGO in 2015 and never had the chance to actually install it, do I get some extra content in cs2 or everything is lost?

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why deleting the old game

Because it's a multiplayer game and they don't want to split the userbase.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And why is that anyones problem but Valve's?

Who else is hurt by having it split?

It doesn't hurt the players to have it split, so it feels like you are defending anti-consumer business practices just because its Valve.

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I'm not defending anyone, it's just a fact. In my opinion it would be tolerable if they didn't cut content and if the performance was on par with the previous game.

[–] EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Players are hurt from having it split. Way more so than Valve. In fact, I fail to see why Valve would be gaining anything, they aren't selling the missing parts.

When a game updates, do you keep matchmaking servers up for every old edition of the game? Place people in a different queue for every hotfix version they are on? When the game is updated often over a lifespan of 12 years? Then no one would be in any matchmaking, let alone enough people of your skill level.

If they marketed this as "CSGO: Source 2 engine update" people wouldn't be whining, so I don't understand why people go out of their way to make a big deal about this. We knew not all the content would be available at release when they completely rewrote and modernized the game's code.

And no anti-consumer business practices involved. You CAN play csgo still, if you want to. Sure, it's inconvenient to download an old version of the game to run, but it is also inconvenient to download an old version of any game to run in every case. Anyone saying CSGO is unplayable and "that's unfair because I paid for it" is maliciously spreading misinformation.

[–] prayer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You get a couple badges :)

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Everything is probably lost because it didn't detect you playing it.