Why do so many pepole play CS:GO?

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So, after about 7 years of playing it then dropping it after about 10 hours , my friends got me to play CS:GO again, and i'm shocked at how it's still shit and shoddy it is compared to it's predecessors.

-Cheating is rampant at every level of play regardless of Prime status, even for a game of that size in terms of active players it's insane.

-The community is dogshit enough that getting kicked off of matches is a blessing. Community server gamemodes are dead besides surf, ba-jail and sweaty retake gamemodes.

-There's around 22 GB of content in this game, but it feels like at least 2/3rds of it are just skins of all kinds (lmao at operator and glove skins).

-Guns are terrible from sound to animations, gunplay feels clunky regardless of your skill.
  • Recoil patterns for most guns, coupled with the Aldi tier firing animations and random spread, make guns much more difficult to control than they should've been.
  • Over half of the guns are useless. No one so far has given me a clear idea of what use the R8, M249 and most SMGs fufill.
  • The Negev has for gimmick to be absoluetly useless for about 20 rounds then becomes laser accurate when sprayed. We Borderlands now bros.
  • Shotguns in this game are the most unsatisfying guns i've ever had to shoot.

-Ranked is a pit of despair and autism of cosmic magnitude due to elo rules being seemingly random in this game; bottomscorers on the losing side can rank up, while top scorers on victory streaks stagnate for a huge amount of games most of the time. This led to a hillarious amount of smurfs on lower ranks.

-The artstyle is all over the place, one map you feel like you're playing CS and the other you feel like you're playing on a port of an Overwatch map.

-Community content creators of this game are terrible in every aspect imaginable beyond their gaming skills 99% of the time.

Can anyone playing this game enlighten me on why pepole play this besides weapon skins? Am I the only one cringing at pepole who unironically play this shit?
 
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I've been wondering about this and have no idea too. The one reason I've heard is that the in game market is very lucrative, but if that were the case then I don't think many people would still actively be on the servers. The people still playing TF2 recognize that it is a timeless masterpiece from everything from art to gameplay, but I don't know what CS;GO has to offer.
 
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Here are a few points:
- People stick to what they know, same reason people play WoW.
- Every online only Valve game is whored out with skins at this point, the community is the battered housewife that got used to it at this point.
- Recoil patterns and how to handle them is a core aspect to the game, some are lol worthy though (eg.: the Negev after 10 bullets shoot the rest of its 140 bullets to the exact same spot)
- Shotguns are a joke, the Mag7 can work but it's mostly a dice roll.
- Ranking up can be hell if you don't play with a full team, but that's true for most team games. The term Silver Hell exists for a reason, and cheating is rampant because Valve bans in "waves" meaning every month when they can be arsed they ban a few thousand accs and those people just make a new steam account, buy a $1 game and play again.

I play it because that's what I can play with friends, because it can run on a tomato and sometimes we just want to shoot the shit.
 
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Can anyone playing this game enlighten me on why pepole play this besides weapon skins?
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because it's basically the only serious competitive FPS around.

like, what else are people who like competitive hitscan shooters supposed to play? CoD has always been and will always be an obnoxious joke for serious play, battlefield is slow and large and class+vehicle based which isn't what these players are looking for. TF2 is weird and full of gimmicky meme stuff like turrets, medics and projectile weapons. overwatch is just a TF2 copy, but dumbed down and pozzed up. battle royales are RNG fiesta meme shit and inherently unsuited for serious competitive play.
 
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The Bovinian Derivative said:
Here are a few points:
- People stick to what they know, same reason people play WoW.
- Every online only Valve game is whored out with skins at this point, the community is the battered housewife that got used to it at this point.
- Recoil patterns and how to handle them is a core aspect to the game, some are lol worthy though (eg.: the Negev after 10 bullets shoot the rest of its 140 bullets to the exact same spot)
- Shotguns are a joke, the Mag7 can work but it's mostly a dice roll.
- Ranking up can be hell if you don't play with a full team, but that's true for most team games. The term Silver Hell exists for a reason, and cheating is rampant because Valve bans in "waves" meaning every month when they can be arsed they ban a few thousand accs and those people just make a new steam account, buy a $1 game and play again.

I play it because that's what I can play with friends, because it can run on a tomato and sometimes we just want to shoot the shit.
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This. I had a group of twenty friends I could play with most times of the day. We would hop on and roll for hours. It was like going to the bar except I would get called a cheater for no scoping bitches with the scout instead of playing darts. The amount of drinking was the same but cost was lower.

It kept me playing for years and years. What finally killed CS:GO for me was Overwatch. I always tried to lean toward They are not cheating it was a good shot/lucky shot. After enough time reviewing footage it was apparent that a large portion of the player base was cheating. Then you had pro players getting caught.

I just started playing Rust. Sure people cheat but you can eat them when you finally kill them.
 
- can run on the shittiest of PC's relatively well
- slow-paced compared to CoD, Overwatch, Quake
- massive pool of familiar maps
- used to have a large youtube / twitch community behind it

Used to play since the 1.5 days and invested a solid ~200ish hours into CSGO and I wouldn't recommend the game to anyone, even less so if you're going into it solo. Matchmaking is some of the worst I've ever experienced, you're constantly placed in uneven matches or what's even worse, against smurfs / blatant cheaters

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Austrian Conscript 1915 said:
vnn told me that a lot of competitive players would like to play tf2 but valve doesn't subsidize the pot so there's no monetary incentive to play
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they're also horrible when it comes to maintaining and balancing their games, it took them years to get CSGO into a playable state and even then the skins and betting were the things that drew people in, not the actual game. Besides, wouldn't competitive TF2 be a complete joke if you didn't have an option to ban a bunch of weapons and gear?

and do you really want the same people that approved the R8 revolver to manage your super serious competitive shooter?

 
It's very agressively "OK" but counter strike is fucking dead tbh. No fun allowed whatsoever, it's completely soulless.
There's tons of shitty memes in the community and the game that don't cover up the fact that there's no heart in it. Think PUBG's "Winner Winner Chicken Dinner" and the frying pan it stole from TF2 and you get the idea.

I know people still bitch about the R8 but to be honest it was the most fun I've ever had ingame. Every match was a mexican slum shootout and it was fucking ace.

E: Just to make it clear: Source was fucking ace but they ruined it with go
 
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Because it exploded in popularity when CoD made it's hilariously awful failed attempt at making the franchise something other than a corner sitting simulator.
And before that, because it was thematically and design-wise, largely appealing to the lowest common denominator from being a rather "tactical realistic" shooter, and being relatively brain-dead simple (compared to other popular fps games at the time) to appeal to lower skilled players.
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On top of all of that, Skins and Competitive ranks give narcissists something to feel superior to others about. Ego-stroke game design is REALLY effective at enthralling those vulnerable to it.
 
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Anonymus Fluhre said:
Why do so many pepole play CS:GO?

Russia is a pretty big country. They need something to do while they're at home. They have 145 million people, that's a lot of CS:G0 players.
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Why do so many Russians play CS:GO in particular?
 
I also question why people play CS, game is cheater haven. I've never seen so many cheaters in a competitive game before (I'm playing on prime servers with a high trust factor).
 
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they're also horrible when it comes to maintaining and balancing their games, it took them years to get CSGO into a playable state and even then the skins and betting were the things that drew people in, not the actual game. Besides, wouldn't competitive TF2 be a complete joke if you didn't have an option to ban a bunch of weapons and gear?

and do you really want the same people that approved the R8 revolver to manage your super serious competitive shooter?

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This. I had a group of twenty friends I could play with most times of the day. We would hop on and roll for hours. It was like going to the bar except I would get called a cheater for no scoping bitches with the scout instead of playing darts. The amount of drinking was the same but cost was lower.

It kept me playing for years and years. What finally killed CS:GO for me was Overwatch. I always tried to lean toward They are not cheating it was a good shot/lucky shot. After enough time reviewing footage it was apparent that a large portion of the player base was cheating. Then you had pro players getting caught.

I just started playing Rust. Sure people cheat but you can eat them when you finally kill them.
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You know, it never struck me how much of CS:GO's pro scene got busted for cheating and match fixing, I knew some stories but after having done a little more digging Jesus Christ it's bad.

It's almost a miracle it didn't collapse years ago.
 
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