Counter-Strike: GO beta applications open to survey-takers

how to download?

GIVE ME!  me a beta key.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Gecchi/

@ Gelugon_baat aha i see what you did there. Nice Arrow to the Knee disguise joke

Will gameplay once again be totally different than CS 1.6? If yes i pass.

so basecally we have to wait forever for an old game

@Draken_Domingo whatever Im not going to read your inane comment, it's not that serious, so grow up. I'm not here to argue, my initial comment was not meant to start an argument, but you butthurt emotional people always seem to get personal, just like on yahoo message boards. If you don't know how to make points without resorting to irrelevant personal crap, then you are irrelevant. Learn what a paragraph is by the way.

@PeterDuck Hmmm, you seem upset. I don't really like arguing with people of your caliber, but I guess I should tie some loose ends.I don't believe you noticed because of your raging boner for Half-Life, but Episodes 1 and 2 were short, they were great but four hours of gameplay is...just sad. Which is also why Episode 2 was bundled in Orange Box, it helped get two new IPs out with a rather short HL2 experience. Also, they've been crafting the Source engine like no tomorrow. Portal 2 was proof of it's evolution, and it's obvious they're doing this work for one single purpose...Episode 3. Oh, and to imply I'm a raging Valve fanboy...yes, I agree, I love Valve, but it's because of what they do. They helped save the PC gaming industry through Steam. They support indie developers which bring us some great games that would've otherwise gone unnoticed. And they're always trying to bring us new and better experiences, not the same old copypasta that's been going on for years thanks to Call of Duty's cancer spreading throughout. Way to act mature buddy, I believe you're the one who needs to let themselves hit puberty at the very least. Half-Life fan or not, you should realize devs have other priorities sometimes...again, you make me sick for calling yourself a fan.

I love how Valve takes their time.....and it shows in their games. More power to the developers who want perfection and can avoid sales and marketing breathing down their necks! Valve has always been in that unique position to do that.

The difference between Valve and others is they care for their community and release well solid games, not full of bugs and glitches to just money milk their fans. And im happy that they didnt make it a habit and made their games yearly based, they just work hard on their titles to make it top quality. Compare that to Ubisoft and you will know the major difference.

@Draken_Domingo way to get personal, idiot. ok, lets get personal, I can play the childish game too. Take Valve's wiener out of your mouth if you know what's good for you. Grow up. p.s. I call myself a fan of Half Life franchise, I didn't say I was a fan of all Valve games. L4D, Counter-Strike and Portal have nothing to do with the Half Life franchise (except source engine and some references). You are mixing apples and oranges.

@Draken_Domingo: I agree Valve will eventually get to a episode 3 they probably will finish CS then go to another project or start episode 3 hopefully its finished before TF3 :P

@PeterDuck So? When has Valve let us down? Well, besides L4D2. I have a lot of faith in Valve, they bring out quality games each and every time they do a release, and the post launch and community support is top notch. Yeah, it sucks waiting for Episode 3, but if you were a true fan of Valve, you'd take the stick out of your ass and wait. I've been waiting for a game like CSGO for a while. As @scout7 has pointed out, CS fans have been waiting a lot longer for a new CS game then Episode 3...so please, move aside if you're not going to show Valve some appreciation and wait in your corner...and you call yourself a fan

@PeterDuck I've been waiting for CS or DOD to add new weapons a lot longer than you have for HL 3. CS fans have been waiting since 2003.

@Draken_Domingo I have a right to be butthurt like the other hundreds of thousands and millions of fans. Because we've been waiting for Half Life 2 Ep. 3/ Half Life 3 since 2007.

I signed up. I'm going to join or create a team and get back into the competitive side of this. Starcraft II was fun, but I miss playing with teammates.

Gonna fillout the survey see if i can get one too.

@PeterDuck SOMEONE'S butthurt XD

Thanks for all these miscellaneous games, Valve (left 4 dead, Portal, Counter strike). Thanks for wasting time on all those games when you could have completed Half Life 4 by now.

Just finished filling out their survey! Now I just hope they send me a key!! :D

I've been playing CS since 1999 - and I have the say the beta is quite exciting. I can't wait until all you guys come join so I have somewhere to place all my ammo!! =D

Can't wait to get my hands on a key, desperate for this game!

My friend got three keys and didn't give me one ;( . Can't blame him, he got $250 for selling two keys. Please Valve give me some keys so I can sell, I mean play.

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Thanks for the heads up. Done the survey.

Just finished the survey. Now to wait for the key...

CS is pretty much the only fps I have ever been able to get into long-term and just reading this makes me feel better about the game. Valve treats their community right so CS:GO can have my dough.

This is how it should be. Sure it will be delayed but at least we can have faith that it will be a finished, polished and not rushed product. Im sick of rushed releases and many patches afterwards. Release when its ready. If its not overdone, thats the way to go.

Already signed up waiting for my beta key