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Valve says CS:GO as an esport not a requirement
kotaku spoke to Valve's Chet Faliszek and CS:GO project lead Ido Magal about Global Offensive, including its potential future as an esports game.
By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields
Sep 13, 2011 05:14
kotaku spoke to Valve's Chet Faliszek and CS:GO project lead Ido Magal about Global Offensive, including its potential future as an esports game.Speaking to kotaku about Counter-Strike: Global Offensive developers and Valve employees explained, amongst other things, that having a game be an esport is a "requirement" that "doesn't exist". They also said in relation to CS:GO that "Counter-Strike 2, at least internally, we think about as something different".
Valve's Chet Faliszek:
CS: GO project lead Ido Magal:
Magal on Source:
Magal on CS:GO as an esports game:
Counter-Strike: Global Offfensive is aimed for release in 2012.
Source: kotaku
Valve's Chet Faliszek:
"A lot of Counter-Strike: GO is taking Counter-Strike: Source and Counter-Strike 1.6 and melding it into a product that every side likes and also expanding the base by putting it out on the consoles. Whereas Counter-Strike 2, at least internally, we think about as something different.""
CS: GO project lead Ido Magal:
"Counter-Strike: GO has this kind of objective of homing in. We're taking that competitive experience that's very hard to organize in Counter-Strike: Source... We've taken that and let everyone experience the fun of a five-on-five [game] where everyone is equally matched. The product doesn't span all of Counter-Strike. Counter-Strike is zombie mods and all these different things. This is more narrow."
Magal on Source:
"[Source] didn't do what we thought it would do, but we weren't disappointed about what it did. We thought Counter-Strike: Source would replace Counter-Strike 1.6 but instead it generated a community just as large as the 1.6 community on its own."
Magal on CS:GO as an esports game:
"That requirement doesn't exist. If it happens, that's nice"
Counter-Strike: Global Offfensive is aimed for release in 2012.
Source: kotaku
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they do not understand is that CS 1.6 is bigger every day.
You can see it's like CZ 2 Therefore, we'll see new CS , at least announcement in 2012