A fun, addictive game that I've, admittedly, sunk way too many hours in. Unfortunately, even with VAC and Valve's attempts to resolve the cheating issues, there are still many hackers, even in prime matchmaking and decent trust factor. This problem got serious when the game became free to play and pay to prime.

For new players, it is not a fun experience playing against smurfs and hackers. For veteran players, it's painful watching this game ruin itself, with an increasingly worrying hacker pool and Valve's seemingly futile attempts and "no ♥♥♥♥♥ given" mentality to CS:GO, with barely any improvements to the Competitive Matchmaking experience (Short match and Scrimmage is welcome), but lack features that we've been requesting; demanding even, for years: Upgrade VAC, 128 tick servers, resolving DDOS attack issues in competitive games, optimising the game for AMD etc etc.

^ and the player-base forgets everything temporarily when new cases, collections and/or operation is released.

-> I am not quitting CS:GO, I am just notifying new, hopeful players to the reality of CS:GO in its current state.

A fun, addictive game that I've, admittedly, sunk way too many hours in. Unfortunately, even with VAC and Valve's attempts to resolve the cheating issues, there are still many hackers, even in prime matchmaking and decent trust factor. This problem got serious when the game became free to play and pay to prime. For new players, it is not a fun experience playing against smurfs and hackers. For veteran players, it's painful watching this game ruin itself, with an increasingly worrying hacker pool and Valve's seemingly futile attempts and "no shits given" mentality to CS:GO, with barely any improvements to the Competitive Matchmaking experience (Short match and Scrimmage is welcome), but lack features that we've been requesting; demanding even, for years: Upgrade VAC, 128 tick servers, resolving DDOS attack issues in competitive games, optimising the game for AMD etc etc. ^ and the player-base forgets everything temporarily when new cases, collections and/or operation is released. -> I am not quitting CS:GO, I am just notifying new, hopeful players to the reality of CS:GO in its current state.