Whats the point of Prime?

[Fannste94]

Dont see any difference when its enabled or disabled and it costs money? 😕

[TheLevelCap]

You get service medals (when you reach level 40) every year and weekly cases + cheap skins.

[NatzoXavier]

Less cheaters, ingame drops = free money, service medals to show off to others.

[Tufet]

trading

[アキウアラ]

Point of prime matchmaking is to flex gaming chair, assert dominance.🙂🧋

[PeachFlicker]

To make valve money.

[PeachFlicker]

Originally posted by NatzoXavier:

Less cheaters....

Hahahahahah, good one....

[snowman]

Originally posted by PeachFlicker:

Originally posted by NatzoXavier:

Less cheaters....

Hahahahahah, good one....

There are more cheaters in non prime lobbies. I have prime and my friend used to not and when we played together there was lots of cheaters, cheaters who are broke don’t want to spend money, and when I soloq I rarely ever have cheaters (silver lobbies at least)

[oh yeah]

Originally posted by NatzoXavier:

Less cheaters, ingame drops = free money, service medals to show off to others.

Literally cheating yourself.

Also prime and non prime have the same exact settings and anti-cheat so wtf are you even saying

[76561197963519852]

Originally posted by Fannste94:

Dont see any difference when its enabled or disabled and it costs money? 😕

Prime used to be a feature rich setting that limited the player base. It required actual KYC data points and literally, asked you to verify your phone number in CSGO client itself.

In 2017, some evil Valve bigwig decided Prime's popularity and more importantly, the curated exclusivity, should be sold out. So they ripped the carpet from underneath and made "prime" F2P and slowly started rolling back the KYC on top of it.

This flooded the once small but happy and content player base with millions of account farmers and cheaters.

The rest is history. Valve eventually rolled back F2P but the damage was done. Cheaters and "prime" became synonymous and Valve is richer because of it.

[cats187]

do you still get drops at level 40?

[Renos]

Originally posted by 76561197963519852:

Originally posted by Fannste94:

Dont see any difference when its enabled or disabled and it costs money? 😕

Prime used to be a feature rich setting that limited the player base. It required actual KYC data points and literally, asked you to verify your phone number in CSGO client itself.

In 2017, some evil Valve bigwig decided Prime's popularity and more importantly, the curated exclusivity, should be sold out. So they ripped the carpet from underneath and made "prime" F2P and slowly started rolling back the KYC on top of it.

This flooded the once small but happy and content player base with millions of account farmers and cheaters.

The rest is history. Valve eventually rolled back F2P but the damage was done. Cheaters and "prime" became synonymous and Valve is richer because of it.

man this post stinks of bias and misinformation as usual with you,


This is how prime actually worked.
Back in 2016 Prime was introduced as a way to curb the absurd smurfing and cheating at the time.
If your csgo player exp was lvl 21 you could attach and verify any phone number (VOIP worked as well) to get it.
Now the matchmaker would only place you with other players who also had prime should you choose to have the option enabled.


It changed in 2018 when CSGO went f2p.
If your account paid for CSGO before the f2p update you were given prime status regardless if you had it before or not.
If you where new to CSGO you could now just buy prime status off the steam store for the original price of the game $15 USD.
If you were purely f2p you could still obtain it for free by reaching lvl21. (This was removed a few months later for obvious reasons,)

Prime accounts would still only match against prime accounts and prime status was also now required for drops.

In cs2 the only change they made was if you never launched cs2 prior to july 2024 you had your prime status removed if you obtained it for free,

[🐠🍑]

Prime is good 😁

[Rola]

Originally posted by Anna Z E-Girl💕:

do you still get drops at level 40?

yep

[Ghoti]

Prime will literally pay for itself in like 2 months with decent luck

[PeachFlicker]

Originally posted by Ghoti:

Prime will literally pay for itself in like 2 months with decent luck

nope