{"id":15228,"date":"2011-11-01T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"counter-strike-global-offensive-beta-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15228-counter-strike-global-offensive-beta-delayed","title":{"rendered":"Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has apparently put the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta on a temporary hold, according to a report over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-10-31-valve-delays-counter-strike-go-beta\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Eurogamer\">Eurogamer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made on the basis of some constructive criticism from pro Counter-Strike players who were invited to take the game for a spin ahead of the beta, which was originally scheduled to go live last month.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They gave us a lot of feedback on things we should get in the game before we release it, otherwise we&#8217;re going to be getting a lot of bug reports or a lot of feedback and it would just be redundant,&rdquo; said Valve&rsquo;s Chet Faliszek.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s going to be things we&#8217;re going to release it with knowing we need to add more, to do more. But just knowing there&#8217;s some feel and some just operating the game issues that need to be resolved first. We want to get those done first,&#8221; said Faliszek, apparently forgetting how to speak English mid-sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Although no new date has been set, Faliszek confirmed that, starting out, 10,000 players would be invited to participate in the beta, and thereafter Valve would &ldquo;grow it in steps as we get a test server infrastructure and scalability&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The full game is tentatively expected to launch sometime around the beginning of 2012.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19816-Counter-Strike-Global-Offensive-beta-has-been-delayed\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta delayed\">Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta delayed<\/a> <\/strong>&lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday is now officially Delay Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}