saintkTR

Great work, but how about a suggestion.. Steam acount with ID Verification: - unlock premier - weekly drops - game stats - community market - trade Steam acount without ID Verification: - Can only play Competitive/Wingman/Casual/Deathmatch/Arms Race/Retakes / Private Matchmaking - No drops - no trade - limited community market access It wouldnt fix everything but it would be a start. You have a paid feature on CSGO to see the stats.. Moved to CS2 that feature desapeared. FACEIT has around 500,000+ daily.. why you ask? quality service is one. Less % of encountering cheaters is another, ID verification. This would not only reduce scammers, smurfs, cheaters. If you have a data base saying that ID got VAC'ed then thats that... Listen to the community that helped you get where you are, by being loyal since 1.6 and those who joined along the way...

This isn’t it, @CounterStrike @valvesoftware. I think it’s time to take a step back and actually listen to the community. I’m sure this isn’t about the money anymore. Somewhere along the way, you lost touch with the player base that made CS what it is. I remember discovering a community simply by joining a public server. The people were friendly, we played together almost every day, and eventually I joined the community and then a CS team within it. That’s where I learned 5v5, improved as a player, and made friends for life. Fast forward to today. Public servers are almost nonexistent. Communities have died. Everything revolves around skins. And if you just want to enjoy a proper 5v5 game (the reason so many of us play CS in the first place) you’re either dealing with cheaters or being thrown into a team where nobody even communicates. And then there’s FACEIT. How does it feel that a third-party company is providing what many players consider a better competitive experience for YOUR game? They have their own serious anti-cheat, hardware/security requirements, ID verification, Elo, rankings, seasons, detailed stats and a competitive environment where people actually take their matches seriously. FACEIT even lets you see things like your map win rates, activity, Elo and seasonal performance. Meanwhile, I remember paying a subscription for CSGO Stats but that never came to CS2. Valve already showed us what detailed player statistics could look like. Operation Broken Fang had map performance, weapon statistics, heatmaps and other detailed tracking. So why did so much of that disappear with CS2? Why does a third-party service have to build the competitive ecosystem that Valve should be building themselves? That’s the part I genuinely don’t understand. There are A LOT of problems with CS. You won’t fix them all, and you won’t please everyone. But when your community has been screaming for a proper anti-cheat and you deliver... PETS? Come on. I’ve supported Counter-Strike since 2005, but right now it’s getting harder and harder to defend. And this cycle has happened to me for years. I play CS, get frustrated, quit. Months later I get that itch again, reinstall, and suddenly I’m playing until 3am like I’m 16 again. Then I put it back on the shelf. Repeat. CS is the one game I’ve never truly been able to let go of. But right now, for the first time, I’m genuinely wondering whether I should. And that’s a horrible feeling for a game that has been part of my life since 2005. The game has been overrun by scammers, cheaters, and people treating skins like NFTs and the Steam Market like a crypto/stock exchange. Everyone is chasing the next quick profit. And somewhere in all of that, the actual players got forgotten. Including by Valve. It’s beyond ridiculous at this point. It’s just sad. I’m sitting here wishing I knew how to program, because I’d genuinely love to build a proper CS-style game that brings back the reason we used to log in every day after school or work. Not for skins. Not for investments. Not for trading. Just to play. To find a server full of random people who eventually become familiar faces. To build communities. To make friends. To play 5v5 for hours. To actually LOVE playing Counter-Strike again. Come on, people. Wake up. We need to do better. Bring back the feeling. Bring back the community. Bring back the game. Bring back CS. ❤️

First game back :D

what a great game this became... nvm the fact this guy didnt even play in the major... £292.38 for a sticker of a benched player... 🤯