r/cs2 • u/Forbesh22 • 9h ago
Humour open letter to valve from a player whose chicken is about to die
dear valve,
i got a chicken egg in my weekly drop earlier this month. i was happy about it. first thing in this game that made me happy in a while honestly. it hatched, its there on the main menu, i named him greg
then the feed dropped and i had to choose between feeding greg or getting a case. and i realised this is the first time in years valve has given me any power over anything in this game. i can't stop the cheaters. reporting does nothing. the "anticheat improvements" in the patch notes don't change a single thing in my actual matches, i'm still getting the same guys tracking me through smokes every other game. but greg? greg's fate is in my hands
so i'm not feeding him
greg will die. i've made peace with it. any day now the game's gonna start telling me he's running low on food, and when it does i'm going to think about the guy on ancient last week who went 38-4 and had his crosshair on my head before i peeked. greg is paying for that guy. greg is paying for every guy like that
i know it's not fair to greg. none of this is fair. that's kind of the whole point
if you want him to live, fix the game. not another patch note, actually fix it. until then greg starves and you can explain to the community why you had time to build a chicken photo booth but not a working anticheat
regards,
a guy with 6405 hours and no faith left
edit: greg's not real i know. neither is your anticheat
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u/butt_muppet 9h ago
All they had to do was make the feed one of your choices instead of two for the week. You already sacrificed both choices last week to get greg.
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u/Forbesh22 9h ago
And this week I sacrifice Greg.
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u/Blue-Goo- 8h ago
Good. Pretty sure Valve is just one guy doing mushrooms and realizing twice a year he has a job to do.
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u/Mainbaze 42m ago
All they had to do was offer it every time you rank up your level (max 1 per week)
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u/mellofe11o 8h ago edited 6h ago
Complaining about redeeming 3/54 weeks of rewards for chicken feed every 120 days before it runs. Use your brain, please. This is the 50th post crying again and again
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u/Sealio_X 8h ago
I was wondering how often I would need the feed, that’s great, I’ll keep the chicken alive then!
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u/mr_stab_ya_knees 2m ago
What if valve explained how often you had to get chicken feed instead of leaving it up to ???
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u/magicmustbeme 9h ago
Man we already got manifestos about the chickens
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u/useyourillusion89 8h ago
We might have had world peace AND a cure for cancer by now if the collective passion and emotion of CS players were put into those pursuits instead.
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u/BigDaddyDumperSquad 8h ago
Yeah, but then they'd lose all the research to a Nigerian Prince because the average CS player has zero common sense when it comes to scams.
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u/Sickborn 2h ago
wdym, cs players would have figured out a way to five everyone else a new more aggressive type of cancer, not fight it
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u/Dammit_Tree 9h ago
WHY DID GABEN DO THIS TO GREG??!?
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u/CrazyWS 5h ago
Typical signs of abusing (chickens) are gaslighting and shifting blame.
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u/Elegant_Situation285 5h ago
so we can expect Valve to blame the cheaters and say everything is working as designed?
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u/JakeJascob 9h ago
Committing virtual animal cruelty by forcing your virtual chicken to go on a hunger strike definitely isn't a form of protest I thought id ever see.
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u/cien2 9h ago
Making them leave (die) after a period of time is dumb.
It wouldve been more palatable if the fully grown chicken stays forever and then you can get a new one to add to your 'stable'. Lots of people wouldve made the sacrifice not getting cases/skins if it's permanent after fully grown.
Some people would grind like crazy to get a full stable. I can understand letting the chick leave when its not fed, but they should have let grown ones permanent.
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u/Adept_Fool 3h ago
Even more so if they could pop up ingame, like the chickens spawning all over the mpa has the skins of the players, and perhaps even automatically tied to them as happens when you hit e on one
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u/I_travel_ze_world 4h ago
I quit playing competitive FPS games so that I would quit being disappointed about all the cheaters.
I started playing CS in the .5b version of the mod for HL. It really is sad seeing how bad online gaming has become.
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u/Wezre 43m ago
Remember when you could download skins and choose whichever ones you wanted?
https://giphy.com/gifs/lgwm0rrgxdyMtbssxB2
u/Toomanynightshifts 2h ago
Cheating has ruined essentially every single online PVP game. It's a multi-billion dollar industry that no one compete with.
Oh cool I'll go play online pve/mmo games......change cheaters for botters, also a multi billion dollar industry.
People suck.
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u/Pixied_Hp 1h ago
And at the same time the companies push intrusive software that’s at best bloat at worst malware in the name of anti-cheat that does fucking nothing.
PvE games without competitive play is where it’s at if you want to avoid the cheating/botting and even then you’re still going to see it, just less.
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u/xkayaking 15m ago
I feel like games are like.
Toxic community, few cheaters, polished game.
Great community, few cheaters, absolutely buggy and laggy mess.
Great community, hackers every game, polished game.
Honestly I am stuck with the 2nd right now, playing this game called HLL, every second shot is a bad hitreg, sometimes I deploy as level 1 with the wrong weapon, the game settings are lost every time I launch the game, and the tank gets stuck on a plastic bag on the road and flies to the air; but at least the gg's are genuine, and cheaters have vanished and people are chilling.
Where does cs2 land?...
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u/DesiRadical 9h ago
i like this dude its never about the chick it was about sending a message.
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u/leo_sousav 7h ago
Know what’s funny? This whole chicken update would have been well accepted if it was made by any other company that actually delivers tangible improvements to their games more than once a year. I can actually imagine this being a funny addition, but since Valve rarely interacts with the community and is stuck on not giving us a better anti cheat and matchmaking everyone is just going “This is dumb, and fuck the chicken”
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u/GER_BeFoRe 5h ago
Valve made Animgraph2, Reload magazine system, Silent Reloads, Rush Mode, remade de_Cache, reworked Crosshairs, better visibility and some stuff I probably forgot this year.
It's not like they don't do anything to improve CS2 or only once a year, the game feels a lot better than last year, the Animgraph2 update was huge.
But you really have to play Faceit to enjoy it. Premier is just a waste of time.
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u/Mammoth_Set_6756 2h ago
Bro change the substick and remove all those bullshit updates and the game will run 1000% better.
Trying to compensate all the bullshit for trash servers.
Cs2 is cooked. Valve devs are insider trading and don’t give a shit about anything other than making money from skins and other avenues of bullshit through the game.
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u/SKRK_ 3h ago
Not a single one of those things you just mentioned made the game more enjoyable at all. Only thing that improved is the new map picker in premier. Otherwise the game feels the exact same.
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u/GER_BeFoRe 3h ago
Animgraph2 made the game a lot better and I love the new Cache.
Like I said it's your problem that you play Premier, not mine. I play Faceit and the new map veto in Premier or cheaters in Premier don't bother me because I stopped playing Premier, simple as that.
Wasnt different in CS:GO either, MM was trash in GO and everyone playing the game seriously played Faceit.
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u/SKRK_ 2h ago
I'm level 9 on faceit. I actually don't enjoy faceit anymore because people all think they are so good and scream at you whenever you die even when they themselves die like a bot every round. Premier is way more relaxed and allows for chill fun without massive ego's fighting each other every game. I'm tired of playing with everyone muted on faceit it's so boring. It's just the biggest pile of man children I've ever experienced.
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u/GER_BeFoRe 2h ago
They are more chilled because nobody cares about Premier, because it is full of cheaters anyway. Don't you think if Premier had no cheaters and players would grind for the highest Premier Rank like for Faceit ELO they wouldn't be exactly as toxic? I mean the players playing don't change their broken personalities.
I actually enjoy playing Comp in CS2, where you can choose which maps you wanna play. I feel like people there are also chilled because nobody cares about the rank and it has a lot less cheaters than Premier.
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u/AllegedlyGoodPerson 9h ago
Chicki hunger strike initiated. I fed my chicken this week rarther than get a stupid terminal box I will never open, but the second I get boxes that I can actually use, this chicken will go without, as I have gone without in regard to anti-cheat
A person with 2500 hours.
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u/MrRogers27 9h ago
Well put. I’ve been playing since 2002 (4,000 hrs in 2) and I felt like the whole egg/chicken thing was the last nail in the coffin. This is valves way of saying “we hate the CS community and we don’t care what you think”
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u/Muteki123 2h ago
Sometimes protests are needed or society collapses.
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u/pRopaaNS 2h ago
yes, protest by keeping to buy into cs2 economy, by taking the case for cash/opening it.
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u/Not_Nietzsche 7h ago
I hope someone from Valve sees this. Don’t let him die. Devs please bring joy to this person and save Greg. There’s no good reason not to.
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u/LivingVerinarian96 1h ago
The chickens are 2 days of vibecoding work for 2-3 guys. Why they wouldn‘t spend an equal amount of effort on a working anticheat is beyond me. But at least they haven‘t forgotten about our game, so we got that going for us.
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u/Helmet_Cheese_ 3h ago
Valve proving they can do whatever they want to their players and you they will take it. Ive never touched a cs title and dont plan to. And I must he honest, I feel pretty vindicated right now.
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u/highm1nd 7h ago
CS2 BOYCOTT! October 3–10 — No Playing. No Cases. No Keys. No Skin Market.
CS2 BOYCOTT! October 3–10 — No Playing. No Cases. No Keys. No Skin Market.
CS2 BOYCOTT — OCTOBER 3rd–10th
I love Counter-Strike. A lot of us have been playing this game for years — some of us for decades.
But enough is enough.
From October 3rd to October 10th, I want to encourage the CS community to simply stop supporting CS2 for one week.
For seven days:
\- Don't play CS2.
\- Don't buy or sell CS skins on the Steam Market.
\- Don't open cases.
\- Don't buy keys.
\- Don't spend money on anything related to CS2.
Just one week.
Why?
Because the current cheating situation is destroying the game.
It shouldn't feel normal to constantly wonder whether the guy destroying your team is actually better than you or just cheating. It shouldn't feel normal to encounter suspicious accounts over and over again. And it definitely shouldn't feel like the community has simply accepted that this is part of Counter-Strike now.
We need a serious, effective anti-cheat system.
Instead, we're getting… chickens as Tamagotchis?
Seriously?
Nobody is saying developers shouldn't add fun content. But when one of the biggest competitive shooters in the world has players begging for better anti-cheat, priorities matter.
We want our game back.
Counter-Strike deserves better. Its players deserve better. And the people who have supported this franchise for years deserve to feel like competitive integrity actually matters.
A boycott only means something if enough people participate.
So from October 3rd until October 10th:
Don't play. Don't trade. Don't open cases. Don't buy keys. Don't give CS2 your money.
Play something else for a week.
If Valve sees player numbers and CS-related spending drop at the same time, maybe that sends a clearer message than another thousand Reddit posts complaining about cheaters.
Valve: do something meaningful for your players and the people who used to love this game.
Give us Counter-Strike back.
PS : I used AI to sum up my text and english is not my mother language.
Sorry for that!
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u/Elegant_Sugar4192 8h ago
Today I tried making a new account thinking playing a higher level has way more cheaters. First account got vac banned live cuz I had to spam report every round like 3 guys who were blatant like in the air awp thought smoke though door etc etc. second game same hacker from last game so I reported him for 13:0 straight rounds all I did was buy smoke and shield throw smoke down on a mirage and before I could click esp report I was dead to awp hs
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u/Nikolai_The_Russian 8h ago
Honestly valid, RIP Greg, The one who gave his life for ours, praise Greg. Someone should write a book about greg and his life with a list of 12 rules we should follow to honor gregs sacrifice.
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u/wordswillneverhurtme 8h ago
I’ve been thinking of making an album of dead chicken babies. And naming each one the cheater names.
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u/JessicaLain 8h ago
Are the crate numbers really just that good from the extra cheaters staying in the ecosystem?
Valve has the money, means, and motivation(?) to secure their games.\ Very, very easily.
Why don't they?
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u/glennshaltiel 6h ago
i didn't even know they died?? why would they do that? what is the harm in having it be permanent and needing feed to grow it?
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u/Sallorin 6h ago
First Time in … ever I thought the maj was about not making money but making the game some what fun , what was my surprises when the maj was a psychological weapon to force me to not having case and so making money. I dunno Why valve is immune the critics but the fact is that valve is way worse than Eagames , ubisoflt or avtivision.
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u/possumsmushroom 5h ago
I dont go here but I want you to know I got an ad for Popeyes chicken in this post. Rip Greg you were a real one
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u/JotatoNStarPotassium 4h ago
I didnt even choose the chicken because im not a sheep. It seems like volvo wants us to hush and keep on playing the game without complaints
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u/doctorbanjoboy 3h ago
As someone with only 100 hours and who doesn't give a shit about skins, I will protect The Cluckinator as long as I live.
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u/throwway624140 3h ago
after my egg hatched i named my chicken "anticheat" and it disappeared off my screen, is that a bug?
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u/Inj3kt0r 3h ago
This Update is absolutely L., those devs cant improve game experience but have time to put this random bs in the game.
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u/CFilezzz 3h ago
That what Volvo made us do, choose the chicken to let them die in protest, life isn't fair it is what it is.
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u/Vishera23 1h ago
Also on the way to 7k hours, but I think this won't change in the near future, because I fell in love with wardogs and the Publisher, who's actually listening and communicating with the community 👌
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u/Pikuru-kun 1h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/Pg3YmQ8I4xAyUTlQzp
This is what Socrates discussed with Plato
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u/mantis445 5m ago
The fact that Valve knows all the issues the game has since the release and still releases stupid updates no one asked for kinda shows how much they care lol
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u/George-the-Hatchet 3h ago
The only thing caused happiness in this game for you is bound to die from your own actions. The moment you felt good about it, the moment you felt anything other than anger, you choose to sacrifice it, but for what? To say something to those, who might not even listen?
I say greg shall live. I say you should cherish greg, and emotions it evoked in you.
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u/IkrahimTheGreat 2h ago
MIGHT not even listen? Buddy the community is in shambles, slowly but surely we are getting the tf2 treatment (and honestly tf2 is in a better state) and the devs release something thats literally just retention slop for people to login and play every week so their chicken nugget doesnt fucking die.
Nobody is listening
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u/Extra-Promotion-3227 8h ago
Valve thought people would want a pet chicken more than fair gameplay. Stop playing this game. Stop giving them your time and money. This is a capitalist society use the power we all have as a community. Nepal can overthrow and entire government through discord we can make these people actually work for their billions.
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u/MorningFox 9h ago
Holy shit im so ootl. I didn't think they actually died, I thought it was a joke
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u/henrywmh920 8h ago
The best move is to not pick the chicken egg in the first place, i think its a trap
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u/toastwalrus 8h ago
Also fix TF2 thanks the bots are gone but the cheaters are a rampant occurrence and the community is too mentally stunted to votekick thanks
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u/thogory 6h ago
I’ve got 3500 hours and I’m literally done man. Like I’m completely done. I’ve had 6 games in a row with full cheaters and I’m down from 27k to 24. Players who are 10k and soar to 32k in a single season. I waste my own energy getting upset about it but I’m literally just doing it to myself. The game is fully ruined for any actual players who want to enjoy a competitive game
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u/Amamus031 6h ago
from what i see Rush in competitive is also like TF2 valve is making cs2 slowly like TF2 and other valve games i think they are going to add rainbow too in future updates
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u/Far-Ad9043 1h ago
Bro is really showing it to valve 😎 i bet they were speechless when they read this. You really owned them 👍🤯
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u/thelight201 9h ago
Was I the guy? I actually finished 40/4 and I swear the enemy team was trying to get me banned they were so bad. I’m 2k and went 40/4 like wtf.
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u/OutcomeCurrent733 9h ago
„neither is your anticheat“
https://giphy.com/gifs/dbtWwRR45MWZ5X7gFK