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I have to admit, I'm a little surprised someone has a machine that doesn't support UEFI, because the board I bought in 2012 had UEFI support... 11 years puts most machines into barely being usable in Windows.

While it's a valid reason, guy has to be working with either some really old or very specific hardware.

Are downvotes actually a problem for anyone except those with fragile egos?

You realize you can be rude and uncivil without directly name-calling, right? The rule is "Be civil" not "no name calling."

So you live under a rock.

Mischaracterizing what I'm saying and claiming I'm blaming others, etc. Like dude, check yourself. Learn how to speak to others without being an aggressive asshole and maybe you won't deal with people reporting you.

I was just pointing out that Valve did the same thing as Blizzard, and you jumped down my throat for it because I guess you must be some Valve fanboy. Gimme a break, man.

EDIT: I'm not so much of a pussy that I need to block everyone who has been rude to me.

Reporting the announcement of the game and talking about how it will replace the base game are two different things. Lots of articles about the announcement, very few about how it would replace the base game.

So you live under a rock

I'm an adult with responsibilities and over 300 games in my Steam library. I've got way better shit to do than make sure every time there's a new release that I'm going to lose games I paid for years ago. Jesus Christ man. Reported, you don't gotta be a dick.

EDIT: Lmao, went and downvoted all my posts after I reported him for being a fucking jackass. Stay classy.

Valid reason, then.

CS:GO was a paid game originally as well.

You had half a year to archive CSGO. Don’t act as it came as a surprise or something.

For someone who isn't huge into CSGO, it actually did come as a surprise for it to disappear from my library today. Sorry not everyone spends their time making sure they know what's going on with every single game in their library. I'm literally finding this out for the first time today.

In all the reports of CS2 being released, this is the first I've heard that the new game would fully replace the old. Once again, I knew about that with Overwatch and I don't even play Overwatch because people were complaining about this before Overwatch 2 was even released. I was well aware it was getting replaced before release, simply because it was discussed and reported on a lot. There were numerous front page posts on reddit about it, months before release.

The same can't be said for CS2. It wasn't talked about a lot by anyone. I only was able to find one specific news article about how it was replacing the old game, after searching today.

I agree with all your points. I guess, to me, it's just a little silly that they're under less scrutiny for doing the exact same thing. If Blizzard received scrutiny because it was a anti-consumer choice, it doesn't stand to reason that people should ignore Valve doing the same.

I've been a big fan of Valve for twenty years or more, but I don't think it's particularly helpful to ignore when they do anti-consumer things.

It's 2023, Linux has great UEFI support, there is no reason to be using MBR over GPT.

I'm just a little surprised there's not more pushback considering that Valve just did with CS:GO and CS2 almost exactly what Blizzard did with Overwatch and Overwatch 2.

CS:GO literally disappeared from my Steam Library and was replaced with CS2. I get that CS:GO's servers were already down, but it still feels wild to just wholesale remove it from people's libraries this many years later. I felt similarly about Overwatch 2, but Blizzard caught a lot more heat for that than I've seen from the Valve fan community so far.

I know CS:GO has been Free to Play for a long time, but seriously, this is kind of a big fuck you to any archivists who wanted to keep a copy around for history's sake.

Speak for yourself, I'm gonna get smoked 7 out of 7 times.

...on purpose because the media is generally anti-labor as well.