edgeofsanity76 t1_j2bd4tx wrote on December 31, 2022 at 12:16 AM

I played Counter Strike since the mod days and well into CSS. Now CSGO is so serious and full of try hards. I made so many real life friends from my CS clan days. We used to compete on clanbase. Now, so many take it way too seriously. And it's happening in many other games

Serathano t1_j2bevtf wrote on December 31, 2022 at 12:29 AM

You can thank the end of servers for that. It used to be a group of people all playing on the samer servers and a lot of the time you'd wind up getting to know the group of people. Now with matchmaking there is none of that. You might try a slower paced game like a BR. Still very competitive but it is more strategic in timing and map movement.

velocity37 t1_j2bkn3b wrote on December 31, 2022 at 1:11 AM

Yeah there's been a massive shift. Used to just be pop a server list, join a server with players and reasonable latency. Pop in, play some rounds until you get your fill, and pop out. If someone was causing trouble, like cheating, the server admin would just give them the boot.

Now everything is ranked and matchmaking. Losing blemishes your profile and more take things seriously. Starting a ranked match is a commitment and you are punished for abandoning. You might get stuck playing with a cheater, and you're punished for voting to kick/boot too often even if it's warranted and not rage/toxicity. There's still casual and unranked, but it's not what most people play and has fallen out of fashion.