Project X is coming, and it’s going to kill CS:GO. Forget about all the times this has
been claimed before- this time, it’s different. Project X features new and better gameplay.
It encourages teamplay, while at the same time offering a sky-high skill ceiling to
let talented individuals shine. Project X will no build its own popular, and highly
lucrative, competitive scene. This new game doesn’t have the same toxic, stale old community
that has plagued Counter-Strike for years. It’s a fresh start, and it’s going to
remain that way forever. Also: it has magic. I remember when CS:GO first came out, I beat
most other players easily, and won most of my games. The game was so much more fun! It
was a new and refreshing experience. These days I never do that well because, thanks
to matchmaking, everybody’s as good as I am- some are even better. But that’s only
because the game has a cheater problem. But in Project X I can beat most other players
easily- this game’s so much more fun! It’s a new and refreshing experience.
With this new game, I am excited to climb its ranks and to go pro. I haven’t felt
that way since I did that in CS:GO all those years ago. But with that game, it grew stale
once I had done it. With Project X, it will be different.
Don’t just take it from me- you only have to look at CS:GO’s player numbers to see
that it’s a dead game. Its player counts only hit record numbers because people were
playing on it in preparation for Project X. But CS:GO’s death has already begun. In
just the last 12 hours, it has dropped from over a million players to just half of that.
And it might drop further still. Project X is the most played game because
it’s currently the most watched on Twitch. All of the big streamers are jumping to it,
which is proof that it must be the best game ever! Anyone who isn’t is being revealed
for the sellouts that they are. Minecraft channels still producing Minecraft content?
Shill. CS:GO channels producing CS:GO content? Shills, the lot of them. Because people must
only play whatever’s cool, and aren’t allowed to continue playing or producing content
for any other game. Project X’s developers are so much better
than CS:GO’s, too. You only have to watch the developer’s videos to see that they’re
passionate and know exactly what we, as players, want. Stuff like good hit-reg.
CS:GO’s hitreg has been a point of contention for years. If you miss a shot, it isn’t
because you missed, or from any one of the many other factors or compromises involved
with internet play. It’s got to be because the game is only 64 tick!
If you believe this, then you might think that Project X with its 128 tick will solve
all of the game’s hit-reg problems. I mean, if I was trying to develop a new game then
I’d certainly want to announce its 128 tick servers if I wanted to attract the CS:GO community.
It’s just that, the other year, in a very in-depth test comparing 64 and 128 tick and
there was ZERO evidence to suggest that people can feel the difference. Seriously, nothing
at all. Of course, these tests are dismissed for all sorts of incredibly intellectual sounding
reasons… and yet claims that ‘128 tick is better’ are accepted without question,
I guess because it’s what people want to hear.
And it’s not just the hitreg in CS:GO that’s lacking. The game hasn’t received a large
update in ages. Aside from new gamemodes, operations, cosmetics, maps, anti-cheat methods,
free-to-play, trust factor and regular bug fixes… what has Valve ever done for us?
The only reason they add new stuff is to make money, like that recent operation. We need
to complain about how every new addition makes the game worse, while also complaining that
the game doesn’t get enough new stuff.
Just look at how much CS:GO, an 8 year old game, has changed in the last year, and compare
it with how many updates and new features Project X has had. CS:GO’s a dead game.
In all seriousness though, I have nothing against Project X. I wish it all the best.
It’s usually the communities surrounding the games that I have a problem with. It seems
stupid that as a fan of gaming, I would want for a game to be bad. I am sure that, once
the hype has died down, if Project X is still deemed to be good, it will be able to carve
out its own playerbase. It may even become bigger than CS:GO. But as somebody who likes
games because I like the games, and not because they’re what’s currently trending, I’m
going to stick with CS:GO for now. Because I like the game.
What I don’t understand is why, if you think Project X is better than CS:GO, why you don’t
just go and play it. Why do you need to post hateful and nasty things on CS:GO videos?
It seems like to some people, games are popularity contests instead of things to play and to
enjoy. It’s almost as though these people want to side with whatever’s cool as an
excuse to be nasty to other things. Why? It’s never something I’ve fully understood.
I wish you guys could make up your mind and just go and enjoy the game you want to play
the most. I know they weren’t the same, but I’ve seen many Project X’s before
and the same thing happens every time. They’re lauded as the thing that will kill CS:GO.
They often become popular. Very popular! Some remain that way. And yet, CS:GO carries on.
Will it do so indefinitely? Probably not. But I’m sick of people shouting the game’s
dead every time a new Project X comes along, and then forgetting they said that when they
eventually move onto Project Y… or back to CS:GO again.
If you predict the end of the world every year, eventually you’re going to be right.
I’ll just give you some friendly advice: it isn’t a crime to like, or to play, more
than one game at once. In fact it’s probably the healthier thing to do. Go and enjoy Project
X. But jump into it with positivity, or you’ll only end up bringing CS:GO’s problems with you.