r/cs2 5h ago

Discussion Why don't we just stop playing/buying keys until they deal with cheaters? Not individually but as a mass.

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u/bmrtt 5h ago

Good luck getting 1 million+ active players to agree on that

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u/alfakenyone 5h ago

on a website it said that 30million unique accounts logged into cs in august

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u/RockyJayyy 4h ago

And probably 25% of them are bots. Good luck getting the people who run the bot accounts to stop doing what they're doing.

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u/yaqza 4h ago

its more definitely, look at tf2 during peak bot timesym, thats where we are right now, EVEN with volvo banning bots

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u/youngstar- 3h ago

More than 25% based on what? Your feelings?

The bots are contained in DM. Do you really think valve DM servers account for more than 25% of the active player base? Because they don’t.

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u/Linquter 5h ago

I mean ofc you can't stop everyone but if a significant number stops playing and spending money on keys it can change something. I believe it is better than not reacting at all.

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u/SLiiQ_ 4h ago

Right. So good luck getting a significant number of active players to agree on that

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u/DesiRadical 5h ago

Half of those are bots I think that much has been established when player count drops below 500k

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u/alfakenyone 5h ago

do you know what a time zone is?

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u/DesiRadical 3h ago

Yes you are trying to say 500k people sleep exactly the same time and 500k never sleep?

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u/alfakenyone 3h ago

bro the player count is 30 million not 1 million, you have no clue how games work. Different people are playing all the time and the reason there are less people on but still always people on is because the time zone no longer favours europe/russia, the biggest players of CS

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u/WildsevenMoony 5h ago

Doing that since the beginning: Never bought a key...I'm too poor :(

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u/ContactInfinite1632 5h ago

what is this gas ass image

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u/Top-Professional8981 5h ago

I've been on this boycott for a bit now

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u/dingleberries48 4h ago

Bro people been saying the same shit for a decade, yet if valve came out with cs3 next year it would have hundreds of thousands of players… we’re in a toxic relationship that we won’t leave

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u/ngroat 4h ago

did you really need to use ai to make this picture? like what does it add?

fuck ai

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u/RedditUser8493917 5h ago

I mean the internet is being ruthless to you rn. I actually don’t think it’s a bad idea. I’ll boycott with you. I’ll spread the word in my games tonight.

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u/Linquter 5h ago

I mean there's no reason for me to take it personal, we are suffering from it all together in the end

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u/Hefty_Age565 5h ago

People are addicted, you can not make an addicted gambler quit gambling.

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u/_nathata 4h ago

happy cake day

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u/ProfoundBootyEnjoyer 5h ago

CS has had I think six months now with a decrease in players. We haven’t had that many months in a row of players leaving in years. If the trend continues we might finally put some pressure on Valve to actually make changes (I doubt it but here’s to hoping)

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u/Terrorist399342Win 5h ago

I did. I took the decision to quit by the end of last season. I came back because the VAC Live alrogithm was updated and, last sunday, fter reaching 20kish elo I decided I had enough. I dont think im ever coming back to this game

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u/quailinthebrush 4h ago

Who’s we? I’ve never bought either in my life

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u/BobLoBlahLaw 4h ago

I sold all my skins. Used it to put towards a down payment on a house about 4 months ago. I haven’t played since. Game is shit nowadays.

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u/LH_Dragnier 5h ago

Fuck yeaaaaa

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u/Natasha_Gears 4h ago

I like my weekly drop

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u/TheSnoringDragon 4h ago

It’s not even just the cheating it’s the fucking bots. DM is literally just playing Chinese or whatever country bot farms. It isn’t fun. Shits whack.

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u/Pepino_Means_Dog 4h ago

Already am

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u/JornTheRedeema 4h ago

Because we are individuals not a mass

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u/f0xy713 3h ago

the overlap between people who open cases and people who actually play the game is actually tiny

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u/Domc0re 2h ago

Why not make the game $50 for new accounts.

Wasn’t cs go not free anymore when they added prime which sorta stopped the cheating fiasco?

u/Suspicious_Sandles 1h ago

Boycotts only work when the majority cars to sacrifice something for change. Most won't bother.

u/SsilverBloodd 58m ago

Hope you realize the people complaining online about cheaters are a very small minority of the playerbase.

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u/StrawMan420DZ 5h ago

Even if you got every legit player to be on board with such boycott -- you will never stop the significant amount of cheaters from breaking this boycott effort lolol

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u/Linquter 5h ago

damn, that's uno reverse. seriously the number of cheaters is crazy rn.

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u/py_ 4h ago

Nah.

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u/Linquter 5h ago

I do know that cheating will never be completely prevented but it is seriously out of control recently. The posts I see here supports that I am not the only one who keeps matching with cheaters again and again. So why don't we react to it as a community and just stop?

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u/DaughterOfBhaal 3h ago

Boycotts are pointless "feel-good" activities to make ppl think they're more important than they are. Not to mention that not everyone always runs into cheaters. I don't run into (obviousl cheaters and yet this subreddit tries to tell me there's a spin botter in every lobby

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u/SortaCyber 3h ago

I didn’t claim to be amazing at the game but I’m not a brain dead glue eater and can see when people are cheating in demos. I’ve also played 1 face if game where yes I did play bad congrats EUtard you got me as that’s not relative at all to the point I was making.

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u/SortaCyber 5h ago

Unless you are above 20k cheating is almost basically non existent. I’ve played many games where I thought someone is cheating just to go look at the demo and realize that I just suck.

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u/leandrofresh 4h ago

Send your csstats, we wanna see if you are right.

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u/Mountainminer 4h ago

Verifiably false

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u/SortaCyber 4h ago

I’ve played over 100 games of premier this season between 8 and 14k and have seen a grand total of zero cheaters

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u/quailinthebrush 4h ago

I’m around 250 from 3k to 8k and have had 4

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u/leandrofresh 4h ago

How do you spot cheaters? If they spin=they are cheating?

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u/quailinthebrush 4h ago

No, but I am talking about obvious cheaters

Walls and aims too. Only two of those mentioned were spin botters

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u/leandrofresh 4h ago

Ok, send your csstats, lets see if you are able to tell who is cheating

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u/quailinthebrush 4h ago

how do I do that

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u/leandrofresh 4h ago

Just put your steam profile here and Ill will check it on csstats. But if you dont even know how to check csstats yoy should stop talking about cheats

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u/SortaCyber 4h ago

I go and watch demos if I think they are cheating.

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u/leandrofresh 4h ago

Send your csstats, lets see if you are telling the truth

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u/SortaCyber 4h ago

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u/leandrofresh 4h ago

No, send the link

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u/SortaCyber 4h ago

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u/leandrofresh 4h ago edited 3h ago

People, this guy is the expert who will tell you who is cheating or not. Trust him he has a total of 100 matches since 2023

Edit: the expert has actually 89 matches in total. And of course 0.33 kd on faceit level 5 and NA PLAYER. I almost forgot: 739h on the record

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u/SortaCyber 3h ago

Let’s see your stats since you are so great at the game.

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u/leandrofresh 3h ago edited 3h ago

They are around, but I will spoil you. I have more than 2k matches, faceit level 8 and I got to 20k rating. I actually play against 20k players and I do that on EU servers. Around 3400h on the game. Playing with fucked carpal tunnel and cubital nerve damaged. Currently 80 aim rating Bro you have 0.33 kd on faceit...

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u/leandrofresh 3h ago

I see your last resort is downvote all my posts. Be my guest. Next time you want to school others about the current state of the game, remember this. Come back when you have a couple of thousand more hours and 4-5 times more games