valve botting player number?

[weatherman]

1.2 million people online as i write this, but cs is in the worst state i have ever seen it. not even just gameplay wise, but the community is a shell of what it used to be. aside from the big pro events, the game is never spoken about other than negatives. cs2 has been out for over a year and still no improvements. so no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ way it is still breaking player count records well beyond what csgo ever done.

so my question is why do you think are they doing this?

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If I can get a match in a specific gamemode, in a specific map, in a specific rank, in specific region, in specific trust factor pool, with minimal max ping settings just for 1-2min and even then I don't get matched with the same players, then those numbers are not fake.

[weatherman]

Originally posted by Howa:

If I can get a match in a specific gamemode, in a specific map, in a specific rank, in specific region, in specific trust factor pool, with minimal max ping settings just for 1-2min and even then I don't get matched with the same players, then those numbers are not fake.

you could do the same thing on csgo when the player count was significantly smaller, so i dont really get your point

[ddddddddd]

Stop playing then u gonna see how far the player numbers fall

[weatherman]

Originally posted by CaptainPotatoPC:

Stop playing then u gonna see how far the player numbers fall

i dont play anymore, dont enjoy everything they took away from csgo that has made the experience worse

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Originally posted by weatherman:

you could do the same thing on csgo when the player count was significantly smaller, so i dont really get your point

The point is that a big amount of people still play the game.
It is still one of the most popular games in the world, so no wonder it got even more players after update, because CS2 is basically better than CS:GO. And it is not even a year since the release, while for CS:GO it took 3 years after the release to become at least playable.

[weatherman]

Originally posted by Howa:

Originally posted by weatherman:

you could do the same thing on csgo when the player count was significantly smaller, so i dont really get your point

The point is that a big amount of people still play the game.
It is still one of the most popular games in the world, so no wonder it got even more players after update, because CS2 is basically better than CS:GO. And it is not even a year since the release, while for CS:GO it took 3 years after the release to become at least playable.

ah youre the player base they are wanting ahah, someone that doesnt care if they release a "new" game with hundreds of more issues and ways for people to cheat and ruin the game. you will just play because and think it is "better" because its newer. understood

[TBAG]

it's impressive how they managged to break something that was barely working into completely broken

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Originally posted by weatherman:

ah youre the player base they are wanting ahah, someone that doesnt care if they release a "new" game with hundreds of more issues and ways for people to cheat and ruin the game. you will just play because and think it is "better" because its newer. understood

It's better at everything, and cheaters are for over 20 years in this game so it isn't something new.
In 2022 these forums were full of threads where people said that CS:GO is a dead game, unplayable and infested with cheaters, and also said that charts are fake and so on. Literally nothing changed in that way.

[ktulu84]

there is no evidence of that, its also unlikely to happen

say whatever you want with cs2 or valves attitude towards it, this game will always continue to have 1 million daily players. This game has NO alternatives. I see a lot of people complaining about cheaters and trashing the game but yet they are still playing it

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Originally posted by Howa:

If I can get a match in a specific gamemode, in a specific map, in a specific rank, in specific region, in specific trust factor pool, with minimal max ping settings just for 1-2min and even then I don't get matched with the same players, then those numbers are not fake.

The facts speaking otherwise.... You get matchmaked mostly with the same players(if you play all day you will notice) In different trustfactor pools (means you get 3-4 free of cheaters games and 5-6 full cheaters lobbies) , sometimes you wait 20 minutes for a game while there are 1.2 million players sometimes you wait average 1-2 mins as it should be normal.... that is enough to understand how much this game sucks

[Renos]

There not bottling player numbers. This would have been found out ages ago if it were true, When everyone's queue times skyrocket and the community market crashes,
Also "worst state" is highly subjective,
To most people the game is fine and in some instances better than GO,
gameplay is on par with GO outside some fundamental changes like how utility works and the slight awp nerf.
The actual netcode is straight up better
The most played content is here, The only thing missing are the least played maps and modes or some maps valve straight do not own. |
Most features that are actually going to return or not currently being overhauled are here,
The Pro Scene just had one of the most watched and exciting majors,
We were getting improvements every week from September to January. Then things slowed down a bit with holiday break, the major and the game in generally good state so now focus can shift to the more complicated and long term issues. AKA cheaters, how Custom Community content will even work,

The community is hard at work making new server plugins/mods
And its only been 7 months from the actual launch.

For most people the game is fine to play and that's why the player count is shifting back towards what GO was at the end of its life.
Most of the negativity comes from discussion page which has always been the complaints department for 0,5% of the player base, Or r/cs2 which at this point has just turned into another r/vacsucks.

Pros will always complain because that their job and they have been doing so since 2004.

[S1lineks]

Она думает я мерс, ну ладно..,

[monyx]

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Originally posted by Theodor Morell:

The facts speaking otherwise.... You get matchmaked mostly with the same players(if you play all day you will notice) In different trustfactor pools (means you get 3-4 free of cheaters games and 5-6 full cheaters lobbies) , sometimes you wait 20 minutes for a game while there are 1.2 million players sometimes you wait average 1-2 mins as it should be normal.... that is enough to understand how much this game sucks

Me? No.
The things you're talking about never happened to me. Not in CS2, not even in CS:GO.

[Solusツ]

Originally posted by Howa:

Originally posted by weatherman:

you could do the same thing on csgo when the player count was significantly smaller, so i dont really get your point

The point is that a big amount of people still play the game.
It is still one of the most popular games in the world, so no wonder it got even more players after update, because CS2 is basically better than CS:GO. And it is not even a year since the release, while for CS:GO it took 3 years after the release to become at least playable.

theres no way you saying cs2>csgo lol. not even the pros are saying that.... please, re-evaluate the ♥♥♥♥ game youre defending. csgo has fallen from grace