One of the few that does. I think with Counter-Strike Global Offensive some of the better community maps get bundled up into events and... something gets sold I think? I don't think it's access to the map (because anyone can download the map) but I'm pretty sure players can pay for something.
I'm pretty sure that Valve made quite the pretty penny off of just user made maps alone for CS Source?
"Dude check out this crazy game, you can SURF around, kill people, and level up your character for crazy new powers" was the reason I bought CS Source after seeing it at a friends house...
I beg to differ. I am not aware of any DLCs. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is free to play. There are cosmetics like gun skins you can purchase, but nothing gives you competitive advantage in the game.
This is pretty much spot-on. I can't stand CoD anymore for quite a few reasons, but one of the biggest is that they charge money for map packs that are often based on old content. If I'm loyal enough to give you 60 bucks every time you come out with a new game, don't try screwing me out of extra money for maps that I already bought a year ago. Port them for free like good developers always have, or just don't do it at all.
I think valve has done the best job out of anyone when it comes to monetization in Counterstrike:GO. You can purchase custom maps and skins to use on official matchmaking servers, or you get all of the same content for free plus a wide variety of mods and use them on custom servers. They get paid, and the customers still have freedom of choice.
a game like csgo basically makes all of its revenue through selling weapon/player skins. if you run a private server, you can just give people skins for free. if they really wanted, they could probably patch this out, but it would make the modding community furious. csgo has actually taken a pretty fair approach here. you can still run your own server if you want, but the official servers are decent enough that most players don't bother.
Community servers are a built in feature to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, accessible for regular users via the main menu. Many of the professional scene exclusively use them (via MM services like FACEIT, and training servers like BrutalCS).
Connecting to these services safely is absolutely something players should have trust in.
I think the community servers solution wouldn't have scaled up to current markets. Back in the day with smaller userbases you'd have less casual players, more people who would be interested in administrating a server and willing to work for free. Now that gaming is mainstream and everyone does it, not everyone cares as much as people used to back then.
Counter-Strike itself still has community servers as an option. And given the choice between those servers and regular matchmaking, most players prefer the latter. This map hasn't updated in 4 years, but I doubt that has changed: https://teamwork.tf/worldmap/csgo/live
CS:GO is free to play since 2018. The player base and the daily players have grown threefold since then. We know at best that 1/3 of the player base paid money for it. Not saying it's not shitty but your comment was missing a bit of context.
Now if one could easily export to a map format supported by games... I have been dreaming of playing Counter Strike in my hometown since ... Counter Strike was fashionable...
Valve did do this with cs 1.6, I don't know if it is still up or not, but they started off advertising the orange box and other things steam related (I believe they added the advertising spots to the maps after the fact however).
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