Counter Strike

[Would]

I wonder if the CCP will step in. Good reason for them to blame a greedy American company for causing the death of Chinese youths

That would open a can of worms the CCP has no desire to eat.
15 or so pokai doing a flip isn't going to make them take notice.

 

[neger psykolog]

I wonder if the CCP will step in. Good reason for them to blame a greedy American company for causing the death of Chinese youths

Most Western companies that operate directly or indirectly in China seem to pay various bribes and enough taxes or whatever to keep things smooth (as well as agreeing to censorship)

 

[WULULULULU]

Most Western companies that operate directly or indirectly in China seem to pay various bribes and enough taxes or whatever to keep things smooth (as well as agreeing to censorship)

Until the Westerner says no more, then the game is either pulled or immediately absorbed into one of several Chink companies to wear the skin of the game for its own benefit, the recent Blizzard-WoW-China debacle.

 

[Thiletonomics]

I wonder if the CCP will step in. Good reason for them to blame a greedy American company for causing the death of Chinese youths

Most Western companies that operate directly or indirectly in China seem to pay various bribes and enough taxes or whatever to keep things smooth (as well as agreeing to censorship)

Valve already partially cucked out to the CCP by making Steam China, and blocked off the regular version of Steam in China. I think China will just try to cover these incidents up and look the other way.

 

[Battlefield42]

I wish people would sell old cases more so i can buy more.

Anyway. Cases went up in value again (what a surprise) . I did buy more and they are going for 14 euros now.

 

[thhrang]

 

[chimpSculpture]

goyslop youtuber

 

[JackingOffGeorgeLucas]

 

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Market crash aside, doesn't this look like the KF logo? (Tec-9 | Bamboo Forest)
I noticed it while casually playing and it tripped me the fuck out

 

[George Lucas]

Remember when people played games just for fun, anon?

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

Remember when people played games just for fun, anon?

Part of the reason I miss CS:GO and especially early CS:GO (circa roughly 2012-16) so much. It had much more of a fun casual nature than CS2 ever has and ever will have.

Esports and the skin economy was tolerable for a time until they crept up and became the primary focus of the game around 2018/19 which became solidified with CS2, a (((game))) that is basically a glorified competitive casino beyond anything else (check YT, it's all gamba idiot; check r/GlobalOffensive, it's all circlejerk esports talk).

Since 2023 I've been stuck with 1.6, CZ, and Source of which while great don't have that signature CS:GO touch I yearn for while having a drought of vanilla servers. It's absolutely dire being a CS fan today.

 

[George Lucas]

Part of the reason I miss CS:GO and especially early CS:GO (circa roughly 2012-16) so much. It had much more of a fun casual nature than CS2 ever has and ever will have.

Esports and the skin economy was tolerable for a time until they crept up and became the primary focus of the game around 2018/19 which became solidified with CS2, a (((game))) that is basically a glorified competitive casino beyond anything else (check YT, it's all gamba idiot; check r/GlobalOffensive, it's all circlejerk esports talk).

Since 2023 I've been stuck with 1.6, CZ, and Source of which while great don't have that signature CS:GO touch I yearn for while having a drought of vanilla servers. It's absolutely dire being a CS fan today.

Yeah you can only fuck around with a private group now. Online you have to be 100% serious all the time which can be tiring and so it’s not a game you can really ‘live’ in like previous Valve titles. No idea about player numbers but I imagine it’s not bringing in casuals especially in NA. China is big though.

 

[Battlefield42]

Remember when people played games just for fun, anon?

Yeah when CSGO existed. Had a lot of great casual gamemodes that no longer exist in CS2. The only value CS2 has for me now is the skins market because the game fucking sucks now

 

[Ambient Occlusion]

Part of the reason I miss CS:GO and especially early CS:GO (circa roughly 2012-16) so much. It had much more of a fun casual nature than CS2 ever has and ever will have.

Esports and the skin economy was tolerable for a time until they crept up and became the primary focus of the game around 2018/19 which became solidified with CS2, a (((game))) that is basically a glorified competitive casino beyond anything else (check YT, it's all gamba idiot; check r/GlobalOffensive, it's all circlejerk esports talk).

Since 2023 I've been stuck with 1.6, CZ, and Source of which while great don't have that signature CS:GO touch I yearn for while having a drought of vanilla servers. It's absolutely dire being a CS fan today.

Sadly the competitive brain rot has spread to the new playerbase. Anytime I try to enjoy some nostalgic videos about forgotten CS maps, the narrator always has to bring up how a map "wasn't competitively viable." Yeah because they were designed around a fun theme or layout first and the "competitive balance" took a backseat. It's that same mindset that killed de_aztec and gave us the boring cookie cutter layout of de_ancient. CS wasn't always competitive focused and I'm tired of pretending it was.

Back in early CS:GO casual matchmaking, it was common to have the entire team play along with goofy tactics. I remember convincing my team to hide inside the dumpster on de_vertigo and jump out with negevs. My friend and I recently tried to play casual mode again in CS2 and most games we ended up getting vote kicked when we dared to fuck around for a single round. Nobody was having it and were getting pissed off by a little tomfoolery in what is supposed to be the casual mode. Sorry for the novel, but It's a damn shame.

 

[WULULULULU]

Yeah when CSGO existed. Had a lot of great casual gamemodes that no longer exist in CS2. The only value CS2 has for me now is the skins market because the game fucking sucks now

And to think it started when Valve removed OG Dust and Aztec around 2016 due to "low queue times on those maps".

 

[Scarthew]

Hows the modding scene for cs2? Do they have zombies and breakfloor and warcraft yet?

 

[George Lucas]

Sadly the competitive brain rot has spread to the new playerbase. Anytime I try to enjoy some nostalgic videos about forgotten CS maps, the narrator always has to bring up how a map "wasn't competitively viable." Yeah because they were designed around a fun theme or layout first and the "competitive balance" took a backseat. It's that same mindset that killed de_aztec and gave us the boring cookie cutter layout of de_ancient. CS wasn't always competitive focused and I'm tired of pretending it was.

Back in early CS:GO casual matchmaking, it was common to have the entire team play along with goofy tactics. I remember convincing my team to hide inside the dumpster on de_vertigo and jump out with negevs. My friend and I recently tried to play casual mode again in CS2 and most games we ended up getting vote kicked when we dared to fuck around for a single round. Nobody was having it and were getting pissed off by a little tomfoolery in what is supposed to be the casual mode. Sorry for the novel, but It's a damn shame.

Did you communicate with them? If you did and they still kicked you, pretty gay. If not, you should probably do that next time.

 

[WULULULULU]

It's that same mindset that killed de_aztec and gave us the boring cookie cutter layout of de_ancient.

I always instinctively ban Ancient for a reason: it is a tranny trying to pretend it is Aztec by wearing its' skin.

 

[Ambient Occlusion]

Did you communicate with them? If you did and they still kicked you, pretty gay. If not, you should probably do that next time.

Oh yeah, we were both very communicative. It's not like we were griefing the entire match. It would be one round we would decide to hide with tasers and try to get the jump on someone. This was casual mode btw. Maybe we got super unlucky in all of those matches, but it for sure feels like the playerbase has changed. I think the lack of "fuck around" maps in CS2 like Assault and Militia doesn't help either.

 

[George Lucas]

Oh yeah, we were both very communicative. It's not like we were griefing the entire match. It would be one round we would decide to hide with tasers and try to get the jump on someone. This was casual mode btw. Maybe we got super unlucky in all of those matches, but it for sure feels like the playerbase has changed. I think the lack of "fuck around" maps in CS2 like Assault and Militia doesn't help either.

Yeah there are a lot of tryhards on ‘casual’ and I don’t get why. Maybe they don’t want to mess up their ranks? There are enough players to have a ‘competitive unranked’ distinct from casual but Valve doesn’t give a shit.