Cybercafe announcements

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www.planethalflife.com has the scoop

looks like having the friends server down did mean there was going to be a press release

/me loves being right

here is valve's press release:

[VALVe Press Release]

Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2, and More Coming Soon

Valve Corporation today revealed a series of new games and features being added to the Valve Cybercafé Program over the coming months.

Effective immediately, subscribers of the Valve Cybercafe Program will receive a free license to use Xbox versions of Valve's games in their cafés, up to the number of active cybercafe subscriptions held in the Valve Cybercafe Program.

In similar fashion, Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 will be added to the program for active subscribers in the Valve Cybercafe Program. These new games will be included as part of the regular monthly fee as soon as they are released.

"Valve has a long tradition of developing award-winning action games, online technologies and services for our individual customers," said Gabe Newell, Valve president and founder. "As we prepare for the launch of our next generation content and services, we are eager to extend that tradition to our Cybercafe partners by developing features and content that will make it easier to administer Valve games in a Cybercafe setting and provide compelling games for their customers. We are hoping to hear feedback from the Cybercafes so we can continue to improve the program and better understand how we can best support our subscribers."

In addition to the new games, Valve is also readying a Cybercafe License Server. Among other features, the Cybercafe License Server will allow café's to manage their licenses on a concurrent user basis, locally update individual computers on a café's local area network (reducing bandwidth needs for updates), and allow individual users with personal Steam accounts to access their account on any computer station located at a cybercafé site.

Active Valve Cybercafe Program subscribers receive access and a commercial license to use Valve games in their café (including Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Day of Defeat and Half-Life), access to upcoming new releases in the program such as Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source, free tournament licenses, promotional materials and priority customer service and support. To find out more information and subscribe today, please visit http://steampowered.com/index.php?area=cybercafes.
 
no problem, looks like not many people are up |:.. I think this means hl2 should be coming up soon. Why elese woud they just go off and start working on cybercafe stuff if they werent prepping for a launch.
 
Thx bbyHeadcrab!
This is good news, hopefully this means HL2 and its mods will be released soon!
 
You could just as easily say "why would they go stressing 30th september if they weren't getting ready to release?".
 
remember im an extreme optimist. so il take anything and assume it means "OMG HL2 IS NOW KPLZT LOL ROfl|_!!!"
 
This can only mean one thing..

HL2.. soon! :thumbs:
[/optimism]
 
Heh i was wondering when they would start releasing this update. I(most likely amongst others) suggested this in beta :p

So now all we're missing is bittorrent :D
 
Let's dissect this:

bAbYhEaDcRaB said:
Effective immediately, subscribers of the Valve Cybercafe Program will receive a free license to use Xbox versions of Valve's games in their cafés, up to the number of active cybercafe subscriptions held in the Valve Cybercafe Program.

In similar fashion, Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2
will be added to the program for active subscribers in the Valve Cybercafe Program. These new games will be included as part of the regular monthly fee as soon as they are released.

So it still could be some time. Besides, if we've been waiting all this time for a simultaneous X-box version release, that would just make me kinda :( ...
 
So this means, LAN party's could get their own Steam content servers to?
 
Shuzer said:
This can only mean one thing..

HL2.. soon! :thumbs:
[/optimism]

Shuzer did u turn the hype train's engine on? we're about ready to choo-choo at full speed!!!! :E

on a more serious note.. all of a sudden playing at Cybercafes and Steam subscriptions look abit more appealing :)

maybe they will announce more stuff in the coming weeks to make the subcription fees more tempting for those who are just fringe HL fans. :thumbs:
 
TechnoHippyChic said:
So it still could be some time. Besides, if we've been waiting all this time for a simultaneous X-box version release, that would just make me kinda :( ...

I don't think that's what it means. They are probably talking about the games they have released.. like X-box CS.
 
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