This game is not for the short run...its a way of gaming, its a way of life, it is a passion for competetive e-sport....once you go deep in this, theres not a single other game out there that could satisfy you this much.

EDIT for 2019: The game is dying, turned to F2P, waves of cheaters came in, game is unbalaced, not fun to play, i spent 12 years playing CS series, it breaks my heart to see the end, to see it die :/

EDIT for 2023: Game is more alive than ever, most issues apart from cheaters are fixed, Source 2 is coming, TIME TO PLAY AGAIN! its been 20 years and this is still the best FPS out there!

EDIT for 2024:
After playing this game for 25 years, i have to for first time ever, write a negative review and cannot recommend this to anyone, the game has no functional anti-cheat, no content, no roadmap, Valve does not communicate to the community anything, basically the company does not push any updates that would fix the game.

It is literally unplayable due to the amount of cheaters on Valve official servers, premier is a joke, netcode and hitreg is a joke, if you want to play a match you need to go to the external platforms such as faceit.
Every match above 15k ELO is a HvH cheatfest.
Do not play the game, do not buy the cases and keys, do not buy the skins!
It is ridiculous for a company ofthe size and revenue that Valve has to treat their game this way.

They basically use the talented creators from the community for their games and profit from it. - 1.3 and 1.6 was a half life MOD, Valve acquired it and profited
- CSS was made by valve and it was trash
- CSGO was developed by a third party and Valve acquired it and profited
- Skins and maps are designed by comm,unity and Valve adds them to the game and profits
- CS2 was developed by Valve and it is...once again...complete garbage
Do you see the problem? they do not care, they do not put any effort in, they just profit from other people's work.
CSGO was nearly perfect, for CS2 we asked for 3 things, anticheat, 128tick servers and maps to be added, what did we get?
Less content, less maps, ♥♥♥♥ subtick and no anticheat.
Good ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ job Valve!

This game is not for the short run...its a way of gaming, its a way of life, it is a passion for competetive e-sport....once you go deep in this, theres not a single other game out there that could satisfy you this much. EDIT for 2019: The game is dying, turned to F2P, waves of cheaters came in, game is unbalaced, not fun to play, i spent 12 years playing CS series, it breaks my heart to see the end, to see it die :/ EDIT for 2023: Game is more alive than ever, most issues apart from cheaters are fixed, Source 2 is coming, TIME TO PLAY AGAIN! its been 20 years and this is still the best FPS out there! EDIT for 2024: After playing this game for 25 years, i have to for first time ever, write a negative review and cannot recommend this to anyone, the game has no functional anti-cheat, no content, no roadmap, Valve does not communicate to the community anything, basically the company does not push any updates that would fix the game. It is literally unplayable due to the amount of cheaters on Valve official servers, premier is a joke, netcode and hitreg is a joke, if you want to play a match you need to go to the external platforms such as faceit. Every match above 15k ELO is a HvH cheatfest. Do not play the game, do not buy the cases and keys, do not buy the skins! It is ridiculous for a company ofthe size and revenue that Valve has to treat their game this way. They basically use the talented creators from the community for their games and profit from it. - 1.3 and 1.6 was a half life MOD, Valve acquired it and profited - CSS was made by valve and it was trash - CSGO was developed by a third party and Valve acquired it and profited - Skins and maps are designed by comm,unity and Valve adds them to the game and profits - CS2 was developed by Valve and it is...once again...complete garbage Do you see the problem? they do not care, they do not put any effort in, they just profit from other people's work. CSGO was nearly perfect, for CS2 we asked for 3 things, anticheat, 128tick servers and maps to be added, what did we get? Less content, less maps, shit subtick and no anticheat. Good fucking job Valve!