State of the game

[Macido]

http://www.dailydot.com/esports/counter-strike-go-iem/

It appears the game is doing quite well, healthy growing community. More regular and big updates than I have ever experienced in other games. Not to mention people are spending hand over fist for these gun skins.

I wonder how many of the 250k at peak were actual spectators or people leaving multiple streams on to get free drops that sell for a few dollars. No doubt eyes are getting on sponsors and that's good for them.
I didn't play 1.6 or source competitively, just casual so I don't know what kind of numbers those tournaments saw. Maybe some vet's here can fill us on.

The article make it seems like 1.6 and source are now united under GO, i have no idea if this is true or not either and what kind of numbers those games are putting up on steam in a given week. Often where the pro teams go, gamers follow as we saw with Starcraft 2 and the steady slowing down of broodwar.

TD server is still lined up to get in every night..

 

[Steve]

I could not give less of a fuck about what game "pro" gamers are playing.

Csgo is shit and some nerd playing it doesnt change it.

 

[Macido]

rage level over 9000

It's ok bro, it's all gonna be ok.


Someone will show you how to play if you ask nicely

 

[Fork Included]

Someone will show you how to play if you ask nicely

steve will murder you without even trying

gtfo

 

[Leroy]

I love me

 

[Macido]

peeps be loven GO

 

[Steve]

6 million people play World of Warcraft every day. faggots with shit taste like you mean nothing.

 

[MetalLobster]

Oh man, another post with a generic catchy title about how X is being more popular and *gasp* is that a hater?! That's new

Look, I'm not down-playing CS:GO in any way, but I see these kinds of post everywhere, on and off DGN, and it's annoying. The link "counter-strike-go-iem" redirects me to an article titled "Why 2014 is the year of Counter-Stirke". GREEEAT, an opinionated piece to feed the one of many gaming circle-jerks that leads to stupid e-peen wars of fanboy x vs fanboy y.

I like CS:GO, but if you're not writing about a particular development or problems with the game itself, please fuck off.

 

[shoottomaim]

6 million people play World of Warcraft every day. faggots with shit taste like you mean nothing.

the taste of butthurt brings tears to my old eyes

 

[STERLINGARCHER]

I could not give less of a fuck about what game "pro" gamers are playing.

Csgo is shit and some nerd playing it doesnt change it.

hahahahahahahahahahaa so upset

 

[Steve]

I dont think you newfags understand how this works. Im not butthurt in anyway. Newfags dont know how to forum.

 

[shoottomaim]

I dont think you newfags understand how this works. Im not butthurt in anyway. Newfags dont know how to forum.

 

[STERLINGARCHER]

I dont think you newfags understand how this works. Im not butthurt in anyway. Newfags dont know how to forum.

i was blackout drunk posting this and i have no idea what it means

 

[Macido]

6 million people play World of Warcraft every day. faggots with shit taste like you mean nothing.

Steve, keep posting please! you make yourself look more and more like a total douche with every one

MetalLob- my original post was never a bout being better, but how well the game was doing over all. Seeing as Darkly is probaly half founded and FUNDED by CS players I thought you guys would be interested. But all I see is a bunch of whiny asshats.

 

[Steve]

Everyone considering me a douche bag on here would be an improvement to my social standing on TD.

You on the other hand are only known as the dimwit from the legalize marijuana thread

 

[Hinouchi]

Some people just doesn't like changes, always live in the past of the "Good old days" without even giving anything new a try.

There's some learning curve in CS:GO, I was like 2-15 when I start playing, been like that for like a month or more, cause I was playing it like it was CS:S, took me lots longer than I expected to finally get the hang of the guns and such.

I'm enjoying it now, pissing a few of regulars off on the server

oh yea and welcome to darkly's forum .. enjoy your stay ... anything outside of the Serious F'n Business thread is just a troll heaven

 

[everyth1ng]

I don't mean to be antagonistic, but I'm still baffled by all of the circle jerking going on in this forum over CS:S. It genuinely feels like you're controlling a bloated fat ass in that game compared to CS 1.5/1.6, and you're constantly bouncing off of objects in the environments like a blundering idiot. The hit boxes are too forgiving, as well. CS 1.5/1.6 movement is crisp and lightweight. I miss that.

CS:GO is far from perfect, and it has a lot of problems that CS:S never had, but it's also a return to form in many respects. I have high hopes for Source 2, but Valve seriously needs to work on significantly improving GPU utilization, ironing out all of the networking problems that CS:GO has, and making sure that input latency is extremely low.

 

[Hinouchi]

Agree Rex, I think the cause of that is because Valve developed CS:GO as a cross platform game instead of PC only.

 

[Steve]

I can agree with that. I believe both 1.6 and cs:s made it to console, but that was years after they released on PC, just ports.

Valve in their infinite wisdom thought CS:GO would be the perfect way/time to release their own CoD/BF cross platform garbage heap. Although for the life of me I haven't met one single consolefag who's played CS:GO. Way to go Gabe.

 

[MetalLobster]

MetalLob- my original post was never a bout being better, but how well CSGO e-sports was doing over all. Seeing as Darkly is probaly half founded and FUNDED by cs players I thought you guys would be interested. But all I see is a bunch of whiny asshats.



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FTFY

How well (or bad) the pro. scene is not a direct correlation of how good the game is. What bothered the most is this. You titled the forum "State of the game", but linked an article to someone's opinion of the CSGO e-sports scene based off EMS one and then you go off on how well the game is doing. The game CS:GO != CS:GO e-sports.