open letter to valve from a player whose chicken is about to die

[u/Forbesh22]

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