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Sky 2022년 3월 9일 오전 7시 30분
Valorant is an objectively better game than Counter Strike Global Offensive
Valorant is an immersive and competitive tactical team-based first-person shooter methodically developed by Riot Games. The game was released in a unique way which garnered a lot of attention in the media. To play the game before its official release, players had to watch specific streamers on Twitch that played the game to obtain "keys". "Keys" were codes needed to download the beta game; popular streamers such as Pokimane, Aceu, Hiko and many others had these keys that would be given to viewers at various times(DoteSports). This caused a spike in viewers on Twitch, "one of the biggest streaming platforms in the world, the game nearly broke the concurrent viewership record, with Valorant peaking at over 1.7 million viewers watching various streams playing the game for the first time" (Erzberger). The plateau of Twitch viewers watching Valorant raised the anticipation of the game and excited the whole gaming world. Valorant had such a brilliant and original approach to releasing their game, which left an impact and gave the game a head start. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO), another first-person shooter developed by Valve Corporations, started with a bland announcement of their game, which was only released on Playstation 3 and Xbox. The first release was so forgettable that it took another release on computers for it to gain traction. Although the release was dull the game itself was a stepping stone for first-person shooter games and brought a new concept to the table
CS: GO, a trailblazing game, paved the path for other first-person shooter games such as Valorant to step up and take the torch. Although CS: GO was the original, Valorant builds on the concept and gameplay and furthers it in a way CS: GO was never able to do. For example, both games have an intense 5v5 gameplay in which their objective is to either plant or defuse the bomb. While in CS: GO, it is as simple as shooting guns at the opponents, however in Valorant there are multiple types of characters called "agents' '. Each "agent" has different abilities which can be utilised in their gameplay, rendering the game more complex and interesting. Valorant displays a breakthrough in first-person shooter games incorporating skill-based utility usage into an industry of games that have been mainly aim-based. Overall, the game has an engaging release, frequent updates, a great anti-cheat system, and a growing eSports scene behind it, leading it to easily be the best first-person shooter game on the market.
Valorant has frequent updates resulting in the game having a minimal amount of hackers. On the other hand, CS: GO has a myriad of hackers which, at times, consequently makes the game almost unplayable. One CS: GO player conducted an experiment that led to him finding that there was one cheater on the servers every three games. (Rondina). CS: GO's rare game updates enable many hackers and game-breaking glitches to pass by the system, however Valorant has a patch every 2 weeks. Valorant's anti-cheat system Vanguard has done a great job at immediately detecting cheats and banning the player. A former employee of Riot, Nemanja Mulasmajic, who is rumoured to have helped create Vanguard, reached out to a Valve developer and offered his help to decrease the number of cheaters on CS: GO (Williams). It is assumed Valve declined, although the collaboration would have made CS: GO better and more enjoyable for the players. Valve could learn a lot from Riot since Riot's response to problems in the game and involvement in the player base is very commendable.
Riot constantly changes and updates Valorant keeping it lively and interesting while not overdoing it and changing the whole game. They take feedback from their players and internalise it into their game. The new maps, agents and gun skin releases are all cohesive with the game which prevents their players from being overwhelmed with the new information but instead eased and regulated enticingly. For example, Riot releases a new map about every 6 months(Maps). This encourages players to understand the new map and take it in before the next update. In contrast, CS: GO updates are small and few and since Valve does not take criticism well the game is inept to growing. Clearly, CS: GO lacks growth in game development and the eSports scene whereas Valorant is booming in both departments, proving that Valorant is the improved version of CS: GO.
The ever-growing competitive eSports scene has shifted from CS: GO to Valorant over the past few years. Although CS: GO has dominated the eSports scene for almost a decade and was an integral part of the popularity of eSports, Valorant is changing up the game and gaining a lot of popularity. Riot knows how to handle the eSports scene considering that the other game they developed, League of Legends, is one of the biggest eSport out there(Herrmann-Hügel). From this prior knowledge of developing and marketing this huge game, they have grown Valorant to a large scale. When Riot decided to unleash the beta game as keys into the hands of popular CS: GO players, such as Aceu and Hiko, they intentionally hit the CS: GO market making many players "retire" and move on to play Valorant. In the eSports scene some of the biggest professional players in Valorant have migrated from CS: GO. A key example is Tyson Ngo From the professional Valorant team Sentinels, who is one of the most popular Valorant professional players. Tyson exclaimed, "I left like, our style wasn't like, good. I didn't feel like we had a good style and I didn't believe in the system," (Johnson). Tyson had left the C9 team from CS: GO and transferred over to Valorant at this time because he had believed that the way the game was operating was just not for him. This was the same for plenty of other professional players.
CS: GO has been a long-time runner in the gaming world, The first version coming out on November 9, 2000(Counter-strike). Due to the game's slow decline, new first-person shooter games have risen to take the torch. Valorant, the new torchbearer, is a fresh game that was recently released on June 2, 2020, shining the light in places CS: GO could never reach(Parungo). CS: GO has run its course and it is time to step aside and let a new fresh take on a first-person shooter take its shot.




Works Cited


"Counter-Strike." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Feb. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike.
Erzberger, Tyler. "Valorant Draws near-Record 1.73 Million Viewers on Twitch." ESPN, ESPN Internet Ventures, 8 Apr. 2020, https://www.espn.com/eSports/story/_/id/29011382/valorant-draws-record-173-million-viewers-twitch.
Herrmann-Hügel, Ann-Marie. “5 Reasons Why Valorant Is Closing in on Cs:GO: BMW eSports Boost Follow-Up.” eSports.com, 24 July 2021, https://www.eSports.com/en/5-reasons-why-valorant-is-closing-in-on-csgo-bmw-eSports-boost-follow-up-253620.
Johnson, Nick. "Tenz Blames Bad System at cloud9, Stewie2k Responds." WIN.gg, 23 Oct. 2019, https://win.gg/news/tenz-blames-bad-system-at-cloud9-stewie2k-responds/.
"Maps." Valorant Wiki, https://valorant.fandom.com/wiki/Maps.
Parungo, Nico. "When Did Valorant Come out?" Gfinity eSports, 15 Feb. 2022, https://www.gfinityeSports.com/valorant/when-did-valorant-come-out/.
Rivera, Joe. "How to Get a 'Valorant' Beta Key to Play before the Game's Release Date." Sporting News, https://www.sportingnews.com/us/other-sports/news/valorant-beta-key-release-date/2s03a0qppvh41w647ifkya7n0.
Rondina, Steven. "This CSGO Player Just Proved How Bad Cheating Problem Really Is." WIN.gg, 27 Dec. 2021, https://win.gg/news/this-csgo-player-just-proved-how-bad-cheating-problem-really-is/.
Williams, Kenneth. "Valorant Anti-Cheat Dev Offers to Help with CSGO Cheater Problem." WIN.gg, 1 Jan. 2022, https://win.gg/news/valorant-anti-cheat-dev-offers-to-help-with-csgo-cheater-problem/#:~:text=There%20are%20several%20reasons%20why,relatively%20new%20to%20the%20market.&text=Valorant's%20Vanguard%20anti-cheat%20system,the%20game%20isn't%20open.
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Ripcord 2022년 3월 9일 오전 8시 15분 
Valorant is region locked so i cant play with my CS friends If they change that maybe ill give it another try
RAt 2022년 3월 9일 오전 8시 23분 
Valorant bad
Didn't had to waste my time writing a book to make people agree with me
Shiro♌ 2022년 3월 9일 오전 8시 23분 
I don't like Valorant, because..:
  • Agents are situational and do offer a completely new element into the game;
  • Agents aren't detailed, they're looking „cartoonish“, as if somebody has folded up a paper and made it look like one of the agents;
  • Maps don't really have shadows, there are no details whatsoever - Everything's so smooth..;
  • The game does force you to play on another gaming platform - As if having Steam wasn't enough. No, thank you;
  • The weapons, textures.. Everything's less realistic, there are no details to be seen.
aK 2022년 3월 9일 오전 8시 25분 
The Audacity on this RAt님이 먼저 게시:
Valorant bad
Didn't had to waste my time writing a book to make people agree with me
csgo worse.
don't even need anyone to agree cause its a fact.
NiNas in Pyjamas 2022년 3월 9일 오전 8시 28분 
Shiro-sama♌님이 먼저 게시:
I don't like Valorant, because..:
  • Agents are situational and do offer a completely new element into the game;

Can't agree enough with this. What I always loved about the game is that it feels fair. When you start a new match, everyone is just the same. You got the same chance at winning since the beginning as the other team.
This is not so in other games such as Valorant or LoL where the concept of counters exists and can lead to games where one side is technically at an advantage.
This is not the case however in game such as Overwatch where the composition can be changed at any time, again resulting in a more of a fair situation.
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Rick 2022년 3월 9일 오전 8시 30분 
Seriously dude - go play Valorant and post in their forum. Have a good one :steambored:
爪乇ㄥ丨ㄖᗪ卂丂 2022년 3월 9일 오전 8시 32분 
Alchemist님이 먼저 게시:
Wall of text
Nobody forces you to play csgo also valorant is weird and everyone has a different taste in games
Samaël 2022년 3월 9일 오전 8시 33분 
valarante child game.... look to cartoon grapfix to make kid player happy like children show.. valarante cartoon world with rainbow unlike counter strike with dark corridorr and raelistic gun.. valarante like playhouse. valarant playor run from csgo fear of dark world and realism
Haze 2022년 3월 9일 오전 8시 48분 
Csgo>Overwatch>Valorant imo.
ro 2022년 3월 9일 오전 8시 54분 
wall of nonsense
tldr
Pixel 2022년 3월 9일 오전 9시 35분 
wrong
honry 2022년 3월 9일 오전 9시 35분 
Alchemist님이 먼저 게시:
Valorant is an immersive and competitive tactical team-based first-person shooter methodically developed by Riot Games. The game was released in a unique way which garnered a lot of attention in the media. To play the game before its official release, players had to watch specific streamers on Twitch that played the game to obtain "keys". "Keys" were codes needed to download the beta game; popular streamers such as Pokimane, Aceu, Hiko and many others had these keys that would be given to viewers at various times(DoteSports). This caused a spike in viewers on Twitch, "one of the biggest streaming platforms in the world, the game nearly broke the concurrent viewership record, with Valorant peaking at over 1.7 million viewers watching various streams playing the game for the first time" (Erzberger). The plateau of Twitch viewers watching Valorant raised the anticipation of the game and excited the whole gaming world. Valorant had such a brilliant and original approach to releasing their game, which left an impact and gave the game a head start. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO), another first-person shooter developed by Valve Corporations, started with a bland announcement of their game, which was only released on Playstation 3 and Xbox. The first release was so forgettable that it took another release on computers for it to gain traction. Although the release was dull the game itself was a stepping stone for first-person shooter games and brought a new concept to the table
CS: GO, a trailblazing game, paved the path for other first-person shooter games such as Valorant to step up and take the torch. Although CS: GO was the original, Valorant builds on the concept and gameplay and furthers it in a way CS: GO was never able to do. For example, both games have an intense 5v5 gameplay in which their objective is to either plant or defuse the bomb. While in CS: GO, it is as simple as shooting guns at the opponents, however in Valorant there are multiple types of characters called "agents' '. Each "agent" has different abilities which can be utilised in their gameplay, rendering the game more complex and interesting. Valorant displays a breakthrough in first-person shooter games incorporating skill-based utility usage into an industry of games that have been mainly aim-based. Overall, the game has an engaging release, frequent updates, a great anti-cheat system, and a growing eSports scene behind it, leading it to easily be the best first-person shooter game on the market.
Valorant has frequent updates resulting in the game having a minimal amount of hackers. On the other hand, CS: GO has a myriad of hackers which, at times, consequently makes the game almost unplayable. One CS: GO player conducted an experiment that led to him finding that there was one cheater on the servers every three games. (Rondina). CS: GO's rare game updates enable many hackers and game-breaking glitches to pass by the system, however Valorant has a patch every 2 weeks. Valorant's anti-cheat system Vanguard has done a great job at immediately detecting cheats and banning the player. A former employee of Riot, Nemanja Mulasmajic, who is rumoured to have helped create Vanguard, reached out to a Valve developer and offered his help to decrease the number of cheaters on CS: GO (Williams). It is assumed Valve declined, although the collaboration would have made CS: GO better and more enjoyable for the players. Valve could learn a lot from Riot since Riot's response to problems in the game and involvement in the player base is very commendable.
Riot constantly changes and updates Valorant keeping it lively and interesting while not overdoing it and changing the whole game. They take feedback from their players and internalise it into their game. The new maps, agents and gun skin releases are all cohesive with the game which prevents their players from being overwhelmed with the new information but instead eased and regulated enticingly. For example, Riot releases a new map about every 6 months(Maps). This encourages players to understand the new map and take it in before the next update. In contrast, CS: GO updates are small and few and since Valve does not take criticism well the game is inept to growing. Clearly, CS: GO lacks growth in game development and the eSports scene whereas Valorant is booming in both departments, proving that Valorant is the improved version of CS: GO.
The ever-growing competitive eSports scene has shifted from CS: GO to Valorant over the past few years. Although CS: GO has dominated the eSports scene for almost a decade and was an integral part of the popularity of eSports, Valorant is changing up the game and gaining a lot of popularity. Riot knows how to handle the eSports scene considering that the other game they developed, League of Legends, is one of the biggest eSport out there(Herrmann-Hügel). From this prior knowledge of developing and marketing this huge game, they have grown Valorant to a large scale. When Riot decided to unleash the beta game as keys into the hands of popular CS: GO players, such as Aceu and Hiko, they intentionally hit the CS: GO market making many players "retire" and move on to play Valorant. In the eSports scene some of the biggest professional players in Valorant have migrated from CS: GO. A key example is Tyson Ngo From the professional Valorant team Sentinels, who is one of the most popular Valorant professional players. Tyson exclaimed, "I left like, our style wasn't like, good. I didn't feel like we had a good style and I didn't believe in the system," (Johnson). Tyson had left the C9 team from CS: GO and transferred over to Valorant at this time because he had believed that the way the game was operating was just not for him. This was the same for plenty of other professional players.
CS: GO has been a long-time runner in the gaming world, The first version coming out on November 9, 2000(Counter-strike). Due to the game's slow decline, new first-person shooter games have risen to take the torch. Valorant, the new torchbearer, is a fresh game that was recently released on June 2, 2020, shining the light in places CS: GO could never reach(Parungo). CS: GO has run its course and it is time to step aside and let a new fresh take on a first-person shooter take its shot.




Works Cited


"Counter-Strike." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Feb. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike.
Erzberger, Tyler. "Valorant Draws near-Record 1.73 Million Viewers on Twitch." ESPN, ESPN Internet Ventures, 8 Apr. 2020, https://www.espn.com/eSports/story/_/id/29011382/valorant-draws-record-173-million-viewers-twitch.
Herrmann-Hügel, Ann-Marie. “5 Reasons Why Valorant Is Closing in on Cs:GO: BMW eSports Boost Follow-Up.” eSports.com, 24 July 2021, https://www.eSports.com/en/5-reasons-why-valorant-is-closing-in-on-csgo-bmw-eSports-boost-follow-up-253620.
Johnson, Nick. "Tenz Blames Bad System at cloud9, Stewie2k Responds." WIN.gg, 23 Oct. 2019, https://win.gg/news/tenz-blames-bad-system-at-cloud9-stewie2k-responds/.
"Maps." Valorant Wiki, https://valorant.fandom.com/wiki/Maps.
Parungo, Nico. "When Did Valorant Come out?" Gfinity eSports, 15 Feb. 2022, https://www.gfinityeSports.com/valorant/when-did-valorant-come-out/.
Rivera, Joe. "How to Get a 'Valorant' Beta Key to Play before the Game's Release Date." Sporting News, https://www.sportingnews.com/us/other-sports/news/valorant-beta-key-release-date/2s03a0qppvh41w647ifkya7n0.
Rondina, Steven. "This CSGO Player Just Proved How Bad Cheating Problem Really Is." WIN.gg, 27 Dec. 2021, https://win.gg/news/this-csgo-player-just-proved-how-bad-cheating-problem-really-is/.
Williams, Kenneth. "Valorant Anti-Cheat Dev Offers to Help with CSGO Cheater Problem." WIN.gg, 1 Jan. 2022, https://win.gg/news/valorant-anti-cheat-dev-offers-to-help-with-csgo-cheater-problem/#:~:text=There%20are%20several%20reasons%20why,relatively%20new%20to%20the%20market.&text=Valorant's%20Vanguard%20anti-cheat%20system,the%20game%20isn't%20open.
k lol
Hamsterpeek 2022년 3월 9일 오전 9시 45분 
Not compareable beside sole data and these datas speak for csgo. The rest is personal taste.
Skipspik 2022년 3월 9일 오전 9시 48분 
I don't like it neither, and comming on the CS GO forums, what did you expect ?
Feel free to have fun overthere then,
Styl3 2022년 3월 9일 오후 12시 00분 
I have been wanting to debate this with someone for some time, so this seems like the perfect time and approach. I'll clarify a few things before I start putting my arguments up against yours:

I am not forcing you to change your view, I just want to have a friendly debate with someone who has a different opinion than me and maybe try to get them to see some things through different eyes.
I will not insult you, and I expect the same from you if you decide to continue with it.
I will make my arguments with (in my opinion) fair criticism and genuinely try to understand your point of view, and I expect the same from you, in other words, I will not lie or deliberately misunderstand your arguments to gain an advantage.

That being said, let us begin

Marketing

You start talking about the marketing strategy.
I have to agree with you that Valorant's marketing strategy was much better than Cs:Go's. But the time when the two games were released is totally different (around 10 years), and a lot of things have changed in 10 years, for example:
Cs:Go gained much more attention due to big events like majors, big teams moving from Cs Source to Cs:Go, and new teams taking the opportunity to grow. The game may have had a bumpy start and a miserable marketing strategy, but these things, along with the introduction of in-game skins and big revolutionary events like Opperations (something like the Dota2 Pass at the time), helped the game gain a lot more fans and followers.
Now Valorant has built its marketing in a questionable way. I remember getting hyped for it, it worked. But I also remember many people selling Keys to those who could not get it. It's a bold claim to say that Riot did not know about it, because they knew very well.

The use of the utility
.
I agree with you on the point that the agents add more variety to the game. It would be really hard if it did not, because there are a ♥♥♥♥-ton of agents. But cs:go with only 5 grenades brings much more variety than these agents, allow me to explain:
The "sky box" (the boundaries of the map through which nothing can pass) is much smaller than Valorant's, which allows players to use smoke, flashbangs, Molotovs, and HE-grenades creatively and effectively. This can be less realistic, but brings a whole new strategy and balancing to the game.
Valorant agents are weird. First, I have to say something to people who may not know, but the game was advertised with the saying "Abilities do not kill". As I said, they add variety to the game, but they are done in a weird way where it's not the abilities that complement the gunplay, but the gunplay that complements the abilities. This creates a strange hierarchy where the new agents counters the last. A good example of a class-based shooter done well is RainbowSixSiege. There, you have characters that you unlock by playing or paying, but their abilities are basically useless if you do not know the map, do not know how to use a weapon properly, do not know how to work with your team, etc. But with Valorant, if you choose Jett, you are basically playing alone and if you choose Viper, you are useless without your team. And in my opinion, just hitting LMB with Raze to kill an entire team, or hitting LMB with Brimstone to throw smokes or even kill 3 people who are on the bomb site is not the deffinition of skill.

The updates

You say that cs:go is rarely updated... This is simply wrong.
I will not even elaborate on that, because you can just read the patch notes and the timings. Also, the game frequently adds and removes maps from the map pool, and there are some major updates that comes with the operations.

The anti-cheat

The VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) can be really bad, and the fact that the game is free did not help much. But now I'll say why cs:go along with VAC is better than Riot's Vanguard:
First, it's non-intrusive and does not have kernal access, so the chances of you getting ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by a hacker are minimal. Vanguar, on the other hand, has kernel access, and if you know even a little bit about code, you know that no code is 100% secure. So if someone discovers a hole in Vanguard's system (which is not hard), everyone who has it is completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥.
On a different topic, but still on cheaters: another thing that helps cs:go is the trust factor (I will not go into it, but it's just a way for the game to match you up with people who are just like you) and the fact that the game separates free players from Prime players. In Prime matchmaking (at least for me) I very rarely find someone who is actually cheating, most of the time I just get mad and call the person a cheater in the heat of the moment. And in non-Prime matchmaking you can still build a good trust factor and play with other legitimate players, in fact, I have played with many friends who do not have or had Prime accounts, and because of their green trust factor, we very rarely encountered cheaters. So either you have a bad trust factor, or you are playing for free with a recently created account.
And I honestly found more real cheaters on Valorant than on cs:go.

Glitches

I do not remember there being a game-breaking glitch in cs:go since I started playing (around 2017-2018). The only 5 game breaking glitches I can remember were 3 map glitches, one model/animation glitch and the last one was that you could spawn anywhere on the map.
The 3 map glitches were:
You could het on top of some pigeons on Train.
The Olof boos on Overpass.
A spot in the middle on Mirage where you could stay iside a building

The animation glitch:
If you crouched, jumped, and then released the crouch button mid-jump (while you were in the air), it looked to you like you were jumping normally, but to the other player you were crouching.

Spawn glitch:
Sometimes you could not return to your spawn and start the round where you were at the end of the round.

All of these glitches were quickly fixed by Valve, and it's very rare these days for someone to find other glitches.
The same can not be said for Valorant. There were glitches where you could go out of bounds on any map, glitches where the game just stopped working without counting down the time, glitches where the hud just disappeared and many more that I do not want to list because I am too lazy, but if you want you can ask me and I would name them without any problems.

Community feedback

Riot does not give a damn about the community. I see a lot of people saying really good things that could improve the game, but Riot does not listen and just keeps adding more skins to the game.
Do you want some examples?
The gunplay, it's just RunAndGun.
The maps are no fun
You can not create your own maps
You can not create community servers
THERE IS NO REPLAY SISTEM!!!

And if you want I can say much more, I am just too lazy now

The Mapas

You are just wrong... Just kidding, I do not understand what you mean with

"For example, Riot releases a new map about every 6 months(Maps). This encourages players to understand the new map and take it in before the next update. In contrast, CS: GO updates are small and few and since Valve does not take criticism well the game is inept to growing"

The competitive scene

With the end of Pandemic and the majors returning to their original format, cs:go is getting much more attention than before. The game is better than ever, and to the chagrin of Valorant players, it seems to be getting even bigger.

The End

Thanks for reading
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