Recent reviews by «BBQ» Prophet #CorruptionAfoot

Very solid game.

This game is proof that Valve is greedy and lazy:
- Bans are only for the account, not the computer (so anyone willing to spend money is rewarded, even the hackers who make the experience awful)
- The convoluted and mysterious "ELO" rank-determination system effectively prevents anyone with a history of bad performance from ranking up (so as a low-or-normal-skill/improving player you have to buy the game again and hope you do well [very likely against high-skill players in low ranks] OR as a high-skill player, you can intentionally do poorly initially to stay in low ranks forever and stomp, even though a system as simple as relative K:D would be much more effective and fix virtually all rank-related problems)
- Unranked/new accounts/players don't get their own matches; they get put with the lowest ranks (so high-skill players get to automatically stomp low-skill players, compounding the near-impossibility of ranking up)
- Items can't be traded for a week after receiving them (because rather than doing any amount of work to eliminate third-party gambling sites, Valve screwed everyone invested in items by wrecking the game's economy to avoid litigation it completely deserved through its negligence)

This game was once great.
Unfortunately, Valve is incredibly lazy and has forsaken actual development in favor of community-created [99% garbage] content and only listens to whiners on Reddit for totally-unnecessary weapon balances. Additionally, the lack of Marketability on all items left room for third-party entities to usurp authority over trading as monopolistic titans, providing pseudo-convenience and false security at the cost of enjoyability and profitability for anyone not involved in the conspiracy.