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Is this made/approved by Valve? Or is it just that nobody cares about taking down CS 1.6 piracy anymore because it's such an old game?
by simias 6y ago
Is this made/approved by Valve? Or is it just that nobody cares about taking down CS 1.6 piracy anymore because it's such an old game?
- m0ck 6y agoCracked (non-steam) CS 1.6 clients are available for years and I don't think Valve ever cared.
- eganist 6y agoThis site is charging, though.
- D2187645 6y agoSurely the patent of cs has expired by now
- mywittyname 6y agoIt was never difficult to play CS for free, and that's probably the reason for its success. I remember getting into CS because you could play online with basically any Half-life product key and by 2000 you could buy bundles that came with like 3-4 keys.
- ohnope 6y agoI think CS, in that era, was free if you had a HL product key. It was a community mod and even when it transitioned to a boxed standalone product you could still download it if you had a HL key. CS: Source was also a free upgrade.
- baby 6y agoyeah but you can't play with your friends on steam so... there was never really a point to play on these servers (also cheat)
- jakearmitage 6y agoCertainly not, it's using Xash.
- Already__Taken 6y agoIt's like a best of. Those aren't the latest 1.6 models, it's the 1.5 knife, but the 1.6 shield is in the game.
- gear54rus 6y agoA counter question: why do you care? Do you believe someone waited all those years to not buy it and play for free in browser with massive lag? Is this an attempt to enforce bullshit corporate-centric policies that are copyright laws simply for the sake of enforcing them?
- simias 6y agoYou're projecting a lot on my comment. I spent most of my youth pirating CS and Unreal Tournament so no I don't care at all if people can do it from the comfort of their browser, besides such old games might as well be in the public domain as far as I'm concerned. I was just surprised that a website like this one managed to operate for more than a few days before getting shutdown for obvious piracy, that's all. I guess there's precedent for Valve being pretty lenient with that stuff though, after all they embraced the Black Mesa HL remake when most other editors would've ceased-and-desisted it into oblivion.
- BiasRegularizer 6y agoFYI the creators are actually charging $2/week subscription for this game. Profiting from a cracked software definitely crosses some moral boundaries.
- cellularmitosis 6y agoDoes it? It has been over 20 years. Should a creator be able to profit indefinitely off a single work? 20 years is long enough for a patent to expire. The fact that copyright outlasts patents is really just a corruption bug in our legal system.
- anewdirection 6y agoYes it does. The creators also maintained that code, and the other intellectual property, by expabding on it with source and csgo. While I am nobody to poopoo piracy, this is a piss poor justification.
- drzislav 6y ago
- sgjohnson 6y agoAside from the HL2 leak and CSGO skin trading sites, Valve has been very liberal with their IP. They generally don't care.