Quake: dead
Unreal: dead
Halo: dead
Call of Duty: can't keep players desptie record sales
Battlefield: dead
TF2: dead
R6S: dead
Overwatch: dead
PUBG: dead outside of China
Valorant: already stagnating
Meanwhile CS is still going strong and more popular than ever even after 25 years.
What's its secret? Why won't it die?
Solid fundamentals, no frills, modern aesthetic
What's its secret? Why won't it die?
The gambling and money laundering it enables
bots and 3rd worlders grinding out pennies. Very few people are actually playing the game.
it's the slot machine of videogames and I don't mean the lootboxes or whatever although I'm sure that is a factor especially for thirdies
cs is a really really good spectator sport. The concept is super easy to understand for people getting into it, so it draws people in super easily
TF2: dead
Stopped reading there
I miss team deathmatch every fucking day
3rd worlders gambling on skins and being able to cash it out to rubles or rupee.
remove russoids
remove chinkbots
remove the remaining 1% of cheaters
and you get, more or less, valorant numbers
can run on Russian and Brazilian machines
Because of these.
globalization was a mistake
How do you get this view?
It's a shame steam no longer shows the userbase by region anymore.
they need to add loot boxes and bajllion mtx
Gamalytic.
All of these games are very boring anyway or get boring fast, besides maybe some Halo campaigns, but how many times are you going play them anyway.
Planetside 2 is like one interesting fps game but even that has problems and is dying.
Shit genre.
russoids only 9%
every match I get seems to be mostly cheating russians
It's simple and easy to get into, but hard to master
people buying and selling skins
Solid fundamentals
except the netcode and cheaters lmao
no frills
children's casino?
modern aesthetic
looks liked shit?
valve saars blessead us with a shill thread mrmmm very good tyes
Because people dont touch the game
There are 100k players top
The rest are in the casino
Add other Russian speaking regions and you'll be looking at least 15%.
Thanks.
America still seems to be doing ok. CS2 probably helped revive that scene a little, it was quite grim at the end of CSGO.
>PUBG: dead outside of China
Factually incorrect. China makes up the most, but it's not even close to dead in the west. To me, dead is when you can't even fill up a six player match in a game. PUBG still easily fills 100 player matches within seconds, and you hear American and Euro voices on there all the time calling you fag.
Like 50% of those numbers are bots farming cases
I took saw the NakeyJakey video
No anti cheat.
Remove the idle farming bots and you'll see that only about 20% at best are real people playing the game.
OW2 isn't dead, has retained a solid playerbase and is even growing.
Blizzard torpedoed their competitive scene, Marvel rivals is ripping chunks of it, meta is terrible for years now, and gameplay is plain bad. Like every blizzard product whales keep it afloat, and those fish are fickle. Its dead, Jim.
Good, the comp scene was garbage. Rivals is dying rapidly. Say whatever you want but the game has retained its playerbase and has been growing in size. You are coping.
nobody really plays this game, it's just russians and other 3rd worlders grinding/botting a second wage
Good morning, Saar. Also, Anon Babble was founded by Americans
Valorant: already stagnating
Why do CS players cope so much over Valorant?
Climbed to be the second biggest game in Chinese pc bangs, behind League
Climbed to be the second/third biggest game in Korean pc bangs, behind League
Took most of the Asia region from CS
Took the SEA region from CS
Took the North America region from CS
Took the Central America region from CS
Took some parts of South America from CS
While CS is mostly Europe/CIS region game
easy to get into
No it's not.
CS is brutal for newcomers.
CS is just bots.
in cs you can play against someone better than you and maybe kill them sometimes if get lucky enough. In quake if you play against someone better than you you are getting royally fucked. CS was always more noob friendly and thats why it succeeded. A noob playing quake 3 wont even know how the fuck is he getting killed
battlefield: dead
WRONG
BF6 finna save the IP
Took most of the Asia region from CS
Took the SEA region from CS
Took the North America region from CS
Took the Central America region from CS
Took some parts of South America from CS
So basically the regions that never have a strong presence at any of the top tier CS events are moving over to the game where the competition isn't as strong.
So basically the regions that never have a strong presence at any of the top tier CS events
NA
SA
never have a strong presence at any....
You don't know what you're talking about.
Because it became like airsoft, it is gun cope for countries with gun restrictions
Call Of Duty is not meant to keep players. That's why they are releasing this shit every fucking year for 25 years now
NA CS has always been a joke and was always a fraction of the EU scene in playerbase and skill
I'll give you SA even though it's mostly irrelevant now.
NA CS is a joke. Just like their Dota scene. They pissed it all away so it's no wonder they jumped ship to the Valorant.
I give them 3 years before their scene implodes again.
can run on Russian and Brazilian machines
You need a decent machine to run CS2 well. Cs:go could run on anything thobeit.
CS2 is mostly money laundering through skins
because bots, third worlders and gambling. and valo numbers are even bigger! (not a riot bot btw)
OW2 isn't dead
Lmao
Thread should have ended here
Zero barrier to entry, can always blame teammates of course it's popular.