Valve is giving away keys to
the beta for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in exchange for filling
out a survey on Steam. Having already given out some 9000 keys, the
company's decided (via Digital Spy) to send the next round of keys out to participants
in the survey, which gathers information about players' machines and
demographic details (that is, who you are and what you're playing on).
CS newcomers shouldn't feel excluded: “There are no wrong answers to the
survey questions,” promises Valve. “Sometimes we might add
experienced players, other times new players. Sometimes 1.6 players,
sometimes CSS players, sometimes people who have played neither.”
The Steam-based survey won't take up
your whole day, but you do need to access it
via your regular gaming machine for hardware-profiling purposes. The
company spells out the relationship between survey participants and
CS:GO beta players fairly clearly: “If you don’t fill it out, you
won’t be getting a key.”
Find a link on Valve's Counter-Strike blog, then look
forward to hours of teabagging, camping, doorway-standing and all the
other practices that have made Counter-Strike great over the years.
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