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I’m glad Valve never sold out with Counter Strike. The game still has that raw brutal aesthetic that works so well with the gameplay. It’s a big part of the rea
by ViktorRay 1y ago
I’m glad Valve never sold out with Counter Strike. The game still has that raw brutal aesthetic that works so well with the gameplay. It’s a big part of the reason the game feels the way it does.
Other games have lots of wacky skins and stuff but the Counter Strike games never had that and hopefully never will. Some of the unofficial servers are pretty wacky which is fine as they are unofficial.
- dominick-cc 1y agoNewer versions of counterstrike have skins/loot boxes
- ViktorRay 1y agoYes but they aren’t wacky or silly
- sitzkrieg 1y agoumm... have you seen them lately?
- coldfoundry 1y agoHonestly, I’ll take what CS2 is giving any day of the week over the Bevis and Butthead/Nikki Minaj/Terminator anime laser skins that call of duty has been putting out lately. At least they stick to the standardized models.
- mrguyorama 1y agoInstead they are a transparent system that enables literal children to get addicted to gambling and valve takes a cut of every payout and they are well aware of this. CS is not a billion dollar game. CS is a fairly unprofitable game with a giant tumor of a marketplace attached, a significant point of which is being a faux currency that escapes most currency controls
- nsilvestri 1y ago"Fairly unprofitable [if you ignore all the parts that generate revenue.]" I will admit that gambling $0.16 in skins on pro matches when I was 15 was a lot of fun. Maybe I'm lucky to have gotten away (relatively) unscathed, but I do have a little nostalgia for those days.
- snapcaster 1y agomost people can try cocaine without getting addicted but that doesn't make it safe or something we should shove in the faces of children
- wiredpancake 1y agoCS is a billion dollar game. The CS2 Skin market-cap is above $5 Billion itself. The eSport scene is massive and one of the largest in the industry. The game is almost always the most played game on Steam. Not sure where you are getting your idea that CS isn't a billion dollar game.
- GlobalElite 1y agoFun story: when they added skin lootboxes to CSGO they intended to make the dull, serious looking skins rare ones and the flashy wacky ones common. It quickly turned out that the players like flashy skins more and now the wackiness and silliness of a skin is positively correlated with its rarity and price.
- y-curious 1y agoIt's not pay-to-win and the skins are de facto NFTs (with resale value). It's a loot crate system done right IMO
- snapcaster 1y ago>loot crate system done right Would advise looking into why those skins are so valueable. spoiler: money laundering and hooking kids on gambling
- GlobalElite 1y agoIt is worse than the typical lootbox scheme because the entire CS ecosystem is now saturated with marketing of third party skin trading sites and casinos. And at the end of the day it is still gambling. Just because you can resell your skins (and let Valve take a cut in the process) does not make it ethical.
- wiredpancake 1y ago[flagged]
- Ekaros 1y agoBeing able to resell them makes it infinitely better in my mind than not being able to having money wasted permanently see other most other games with gambling mechanics like gacha...
- zppln 1y agoThe same Valve that one day decided to put ads in spawn on de_dust2? :) They pretty much refused to fix anything related to Counter-Strike until they realized they could use it to sell the equivalent of hats. I'd argue that the only reason Steam survived when it came out was because Valve forced people to use to play Counter-Strike. They've done better in the past 15 years though, I'll give them that!
- protocolture 1y agoI refused to install steam until I had to for my owned copy of CS Source.