To keep thousands of now irrelevant reviews, allow themselves to remonetize content and jumpstart a player base that now has no other choice but to switch.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

Tbf they're KEEPING ALL cosmetics unlike fucking overwatch

[–] aplomBomb@midwest.social -4 points 1 year ago

yo we're not talking about blizzard, we're talking about valve here and they are not scumbags like that, I think you're being a little harsh

[–] schnokobaer@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CSGO is still in CS2's beta channel on Steam as csgo_demo_viewer or something like that, but obviously limited to community servers/offline play, no official dedicated servers.

[–] ritchie@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you! Tried almost every beta on the list, CS2 loaded every time.

[–] aplomBomb@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

to prevent fragmenting the player base

[–] newproph@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

May have something to do with keeping the appid the same. My guess is this was done because of how skins work on the backend. I don't know for sure though. They should have done more testing on Linux however. It will be interesting to see what they do going forward.

[–] EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It IS playable on Linux. It ISN'T playable on computers over ~10 years old.

[–] joucker29@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The game was unplayable on linux 2 days after release no matter how good your pc was. It is fine now though.