Professional Valorant Is Already Falling Apart
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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As president of The Society of CS Refugee Boomers That Really Can’t Hang, I demand an apology 🧐
You look like 17.
Proud to have you amongst our ranks king
black dont crack@@t.r.2283
Wow wouldn't of believed we had RLS fans in the upper echelons, feelsgoodman
@@t.r.2283 he's looked 17 for longer than you've been alive blud
I believe that games without a replay system should be banned by law.
Wtf I didnt even know, thats crazy. Especially with how much they push tickrate, competitive features, anti-cheating stuff etc, and then they miss basic stuff like replays? Thats mental.
@@termitreter6545 i heard in one of the riot dev interviews saying "we believe that a game does not need a replay system for its players to improve"
@@faruz6868 but yet people say val is better than cs🤣🤣
I pray for the day Tarkov has a replay system for people who you suspect of cheating after the raid is over
It's not even like it's impossible; both Rocket League and Valorant use Unreal Engine 4, and RL has a replay system, so if Riot say "oh it's impossible", it's a fucking lie.
Man, I miss the times where the "orgs" were just a bunch of bozos with a funny name.
I do too, but at the same time, these big orgs, regardless of game, are the ones keeping these players playing. I doubt we’d have as many dedicated players and fans if we only had teams like Final Boss and Str8 Rippin around. And I’d argue that all of these teams were those weird orgs at one point, but we turned them into celebrities. It’s just what happens when things get popular.
I have to disagree with your conclusion. I think as long as there is an activity most young men do for hours a day they'll be competitive and want to be the best. I don't think the prizepools would be lower, but the salaries likely would be. Certain games that were ruined by developer intervention like all of blizzard activisions esports titles might still be popular. @@CR0WYT
When was that? ive followed CS since like 04 and while some of those 'orgs' dont exist anymore they were still moderately to fairly professional. SK, Nip, EG, coL, and fnatic still exist.
And called clans or multi-gaming clans.
The biggest issue with esports currently in my opinion is franchising. Forcing orgs to pay millions of dollars to participate in a league thats costing developers millions and operating at a loss is absolutely killing alot of these games.
I wanna see modern fps do an old style 128 team open bracket event. Halo 3 style. Whoever has 5 people and ~$100 gets in. Logos heat pressed onto the tshirts.
Thats too low. Do you enjoy seeing absolute trash amateur teams playing? And still want a solid competetive and professional scene? You gotta pick one or the other.
@@tiburc10 I don't have to "pick one or the other" lmao the fuck are you talking about? An open bracket tournament still ends with the best teams in the playoffs? Even CS has qualifier matches that literally no one watches. Random NA teams that get dog walked by 2nd tier pro teams and it doesn't disturb the integrity of CS. Your ultimatum doesn't make any sense.
@@tiburc10 Except for world wide tournaments it always has been full of thrash amateur teams. Giving amateur teams the chance to play and learn gives us a better tournament setting and better players in general. So many no name players and teams in CS just go big. Also franchising is killer in esports, there are not enough player slots so orgs don't wanna risk using rookies or scouting them. Eventually you'll just get recycled veterans being just as bad as current amateur teams.
OR you get the "Hot Young 18&cracked" bs player w a lot of hype, who just turns out to be jimbo & that player that is a vet and is just as good, doesnt get a chance bc he's old now(21 lol)@@blobmarley1064
That's the only reason the FGC is remotely sustainable. A lot of individual events break even or lose money but the scene on the whole operates far more efficiently and with far less loss than basically any other esport scene out there.
The "Riot is a cult" part made me think they're the Scientologists of gaming.
At least Scientology has some standards and Tom Cruise. Riot has sweaty, creepy incels and brain problems.
JP main carried
@@azizkash286 Not the place I expected to get flak for the pfp, lol. I'm carried by Marisa actually. I just like JP's design, but I can't play zoners.
14:44 One more thing about the Guard: G2 bought the players so that means they will be competing in VCT Americas as G2 esports. So at the Guard players and G2 got what they want.
I wish ludwig would watch this video
And the other videos RL has covered on riot and valorant
Why Ludwig? Sorry I'm ignorant. I'm not really a Ludwig fan, not that I have any bias against him. Is he big on valorant?
@hobosnake1 he is a popular youtuber, made a valorant team with moistcritical in tier 2 valorant and tried to get into tier 1
Failed to do so, and then complained on his RUclips about it
Richard Lewis has covered the hypocrisy of riot games for years
Ludwig just found out about it, I think, otherwise Ludwig is just being ignorant imo
@K1m9857 oh, in that case I'd love a chat with these 2.
Thanks for standing up for the players year after year after year. You get so little thanks for what you do, but you still do it! Stay strong and i wish you good health Richard
You mean the guy who got 6 pros banned for making like 1k at a time when they were making less than minimum wage?
@@tylerblalack6684 you talking about IBP and the matchfixning? Its not his fault they got maximum sentence
@@eliotness107 tons of matchfixing was happening then. It still is in t2/3. He wanted to make a name for himself. Period.
Yes because he personally handed the sentence himself, did he? @@tylerblalack6684
@@tylerblalack6684If not Richard I guarantee it would have broke by some other journalist, as soon as they agreed to throw the match they sealed their fate.
I love that riot won't promote some team because they aren't good enough, but they still give slots to minor regions for worlds.
Never trust a twitch streamer who always waits to see how the wind blows before giving there opinion that agrees with everyone else.
Good vid rich
I like these vid cuz I dont pay attention at all to esports
After your explanation I actually agree with you. An org provides the players with a paycheck therefore the org gets the spot not the player. The org could also replace all players at any time so the spot was actually never the players spot to begin with (and I'm pretty sure that is also written in their contract).
When a football club gets insolvent the players are also not allowed to retain their clubs position, all their contracts get eliminated and they are free to go to another club.
players earned the spot, if an org dropped their roster after earning a spot and then replaced them there would be an absolute uproar. that would be so undeserved
@@xXDaBoyzRulezXx not really, entire rosters getting dropped happens all the time lol. For example, clg replacing their entire roster in LoL or EG replacing it in dota 2.
@@RealTaIk when has a roster played for an entire year for a spot in tier 1 only to be dropped once achieving it.
@@xXDaBoyzRulezXx c9 in dota 2. They bought a selfmade t2 team, they got into t1 and then they dropped the entire roster to buy another t2 team which was now competing in t1.
@@RealTaIk exactly, and that was received poorly. That’s completely unfair since the players earned it
Richard you are on a tear lately, absolutely fantastic
Riot have used every method to prop up the eSports scene, that propping up is now coming to a end as they big methods they used was creating hype, hype crowds don't last and they're leaving now.
That's one problem, the biggest problem is the game itself, had they kept the original agents for 2-3 years without adding anymore they may have a had game that could be played as a eSport, but just like Blizzard, Riot don't understand that you cannot have a tac FPS eSport that has a new agent added in frequently destroys a mature meta and all it does is create chaos and randomness, randomness is not good for any eSport or Sport, not to mention this game is just straight up terrible to watch which they can never fix that problem.
However we know why they want more agents, to sell more skins of course.
The difference between CS and Valorant is that CS has never had a advertising campaign, the whole scene is built by the community, you cannot replicate it, CS shares the basics of a real sport, everyone can play it, everyone can understand it with little time investment, it's the football of eSports, the simplicity and lack of meta shifts, lack of heroes/agents is the reason why it will outlive even the biggest esports such as DotA 2 and LoL.
Ticket sales would help to not enough games being in arenas and seats sold they also need to play more
Yeah same with r6 they should’ve stopped adding ops after para but they always make up the stupidest ops these days
I remember getting my beta key for valorant and the SAME DAY folks were already online talking about making teams and which big org was picking up who. Even CS pros talking about making the switch. The whole time I was telling my friends that valorants competitive integrity would be butchered after about 5 or 6 new agents. Same shit happened with R6.
They really think their game is more tactical than it really is. They make agents like Deadlock thinking people are going to be big braining and it's going to be a super cool specialized agent whereas in reality if you don't want to F around you're gonna pick the same established meta comp 10/10 times. And then those agents rot for like a year with no buffs. It took them this long to actually nerf their mascot character because having other viable and balanced duelists is less vital than pissing off a bunch of fanboys and fangirls over their 2D character personality cult.
@@lancevance6346 I can tell by what you said about jett that you don't play the game. Please stop talking on shit you dont understand
“How’s your LCS today? Dickhead!” LUL starts with fire and never lets off
this is more like "NA Professional Valorant is already falling apart"
hate to break to you, NA isn't the only region in Valorant, notice how it's only NA and not even the whole of the Americas?
Yeah who knew Riot Games, one of the most evil and duplicitous companies ever, would screw this up. Great video as usual, Rich!
That's the first time I've encountered the word duplicitous. What a strong adjective.
And yet there are ignorant people, aka other content creators like asmongold etc etc, are defending riot
Saying riot is a "good" company
Dear lord
Riot is a shit show like blizzard
It's not really about Riot Games. It's just esports in general. eSports organizations still insisted on paying players insane salaries despite seeing what's happening.
@marstonpablo2542 there isn't a "base" or "standard metric" for what team organization should or shouldn't do
Considering how much the players have the power to sway riot with changes or anything in general
There is no system in place for conversation of anything
I don't know much about Riot, what makes them such an evil company?
Every esport still just wishes it could be the Korean Starcraft 1 scene.
trueeeeeeee
true and true and yep true
Fax
Factual
And your “Savior” comes around destroy everything as Korean brood war scene have seen. Lol
What day was this streamed?
Thanks for fighting the good fight, rich
I feel bad for the kids who didnt get to experience grassroots esports and grew up with shit like this
I jumped in when source came out. Dipped into 1.6 as well and played both at that time. I wish I played more competitively, but the whole reason I got into pc gaming and cs was a friend's birthday party at a Lan center. Had some older dudes tell all us kids to get on the computer and play a game of CS with eachother. Then they showed us scoutsknivez. Core memories. That kinda thing happens less and less now. I know LANS exist, but the competition back then was way less corporate obviously.
3:32 what a gem of a clip
lmfao fuckin richard lol
youre fucking hillarious man. new fan here. god bless the yt algo
no demos, trash maps, and trash movement but they have tons of skins hehe
I agree on all of those point as a valorant player, tho I have to disagree with the movement point because its subjective, only players who came from CSGO hate valornt movement just because its different
@@UND3RD0G535 the skill floor and ceiling both being so low is what makes valorants movement bad though it's not just 'different'. counterstrafing isn't even necessary, just let go of a button and you're perfectly accurate and that's one of many examples
why is counter strafing good? Plenty of other reasons to hate failorant but it's an unintuitive part of counter strike. I'd go even further and say it's an artifact of the ice skating movement in the half life mod days@@tempooooo
@@tempooooo counterstrafing and having dodgy movement is very necessary and not doing so will make you an easy target
@@UND3RD0G535 it's just skill expression being removed from everyone but raze and jett when it comes to movement, feels unluko for anyone not playing those where in CS everyone on even playing field and can practice movement for 2k hours and still not master it that's the problem with valorant once you play cs
I hate that I can't spam gamer words without the fear of losing all my skins.
25:30: Whenever I hear the term bedroom org, it reminds of me of that CAZ eSports video, get your org for a pound, get your org for a pound!
Kind of lost me when it said Incorporated in Delaware but doing arbitration in California. I live Delaware and process legal paperwork for a living. Any Company Incorporated in Delaware, has to do arbitration in a Delaware court. So that to me makes no sense.
I've always thought that once CS2 is released Valorant is finished. It just needed update to next gen.
Even before CS2 dropped for a solid 3 weeks before it, I kept getting constant Val players in my lobbies. Like Jesus, so many Val players. Wtf lol.
CS2 is garbage, unfortunately.
Nah, Valorant has a stronghold on certain regions like Asia. CS will never be able to break into those markets. VALORANT is the 5th most played online game in China as of 4Q 2023, CS hasn't even gotten close to that.
richard lewis is shitting on riot? it's a good day today.
Keep up the good work Rich.
I mean I agree with the majority of what Richard said. But I'm surprised he still published this video after Riot walked back their decision (even though he said they wouldnt). I guess that petition and public outcry did more than he thought it would.
Excellent video about what is going on
I’ll be interested in how Bex from GGG being headhunted for community work will bed in with a company like Riot.
And now EG cuts the world champs lmfaoooo, esports is over party
Without relegation VCT is just a joke
I’ve always said that franchising itself isn’t bad. Traditional sporting leagues wouldn’t exist if it were. It’s just WAY too soon for esports. We’re gonna need at least another 30 years of growth before we can even consider it, yet Riot does it with only 2 (9 for LoL). The only game I can think of that has any chance at pulling it off is maybe CS with its long history, but Valve doesn’t want to do that, so I doubt we’re gonna see a proper franchised esports league until we’re in our retirement homes assuming these games even make it that far.
Because riot understands they’re making a lot of money from a video game by franchising
Comparing esports to a traditional sporting league just isn't fair. I'm sorry to break the news but there's not an esport that will ever be as big/successful as something like the NBA or the NFL. We're talking about selling out an 80,000 seat arena every Sunday and garnering millions of views on TV weekly. I'd love to be wrong but I just don't see how that could ever be possible for an esport.
@@sallad2645 it’s just a matter if and when. The possibility is definitely there. We’re still in the infancy stage of esports despite being able to pack out stadiums. I’d say esports is already the biggest non-traditional sport in the world with traditional sports being the next challenge.
You're completely wrong, traditional sports leagues can totally exist without franchising. Sports not only exist in the US, and in Europe lots of sports teams aren't franchises, they're simply teams based in a city or town. All that's needed is a governmental institution that provides basic funds and organization for the leagues to exist.
@@JerryO1995 they for sure can exist without franchising. Boxing and motorbike racing are open circuits. I’m just saying a future involving franchising isn’t a complete doom and gloom future as we see with other traditional franchised leagues.
valorant is the indoor futbol version of cs
More like tag rugby perhaps
bruv
50:53 He was clearly disguised as someone who didn't know who you are Richard.
no single soul working on valorant ever made it past Gold Nova 2
Team Machete? From Krakow?
"Riot is a cult" 😂
Trying to be a pro in Valorant is much more difficult than in CS2, you burn out much faster since there are only 3 international LANs, you miss the classification in a split and you waste half a year...
while in CS2 you have tier 1 events almost all year round. you can miss a couple without it meaning a bad year
t. someone who has never been pro in any esport lmfao
Are you just copy and pasting? The less you play internationally means you burn out faster? How does that logic work?
Funny that now G2 is taking the Guard players so they can play in VCT lmao
is this cut from a vod?
LCS was peak 6 years ago and has been on a slow downturn ever since then. No clue who any of the players are, there's literally ZERO personality. Sounds like the same thing is happening with VTC.
While Valve's system isn't perfect, their pretty much hands-of approach is so much better than franchise system that everybody else use.
I've said it before the whole lol franchising began that it's a very bad band-aid that will not only fail to do anything, it will make things even worse. Haven't watched any lol games ever since the franchise starts.
I don’t think its really their fault because they were copying the closest analog which is Physical Sports. However its obvious now that it is a bad idea and maybe by the time Overwatch League was made you could have had enough data to understand that franchise leagues are doomed to fail.
The problem with Valves model is that it is really hard for esports pros to make money. Csgo and Dota teams owe a lot to League of Legends, because it was the perceived stability of a franchise system that encouraged teams to invest money into esports and growth. Before this happened you had the classic tale of the iBuypower bans which were heavily influenced by the fact that no one was making money in esports at that time (the contract was literally just covering the cost of flights and giving the players 100% of the cut of any prize money, and this is how esport orgs had been run in the west for over a decade at this point, I don’t know enough about old starcraft korea to say that they operated the same way, but its possible). Just 3 years later LoL announced franchising.
Valve’s model essentially preys on the players, but in exchange players are given better access towards becoming a pro since a new team could play in an open tournament and earn the right to play at the next major.
However since League gave investors an end goal beyond winning a tournament’s prize money, many orgs ramped up their spending and that bled into other esports.
I always love when there's news like this and nothing really changes.
The game will continue being played for years to come.
how's the OWL doing
There always should be compition between games, valo failing is bad for cs too since
True, if there's atleast one good thing Riot has done is that they're the only company that gets Valve off their lazy asses because their games are getting copied
The only time a petition changed anything was forcing MS not to drop MS Paint( original )
Rich is a modern day Nostradamus.
PPV will never happen unless orgs want to kill their games. Last time I checked traditional sports don't do PPV. This isn't MMA where you get 5 fights a year and this being the only way for them to make money. Do you think NBA or football would have the same amount of following if it required everyone to pay individually for each match? Riot and the orgs have ways of making money without it alienating 90% of the viewers. Team skins, battle passes, sponsors, merch, live shows, etc. Every player should be required to make content and to grow their brand and the brand of their team.
Valorant, counter strike clone with mediocre anime lore as the spice
They took the L. Which is wild.
41:28 words to live by
Video is a little outdated with the GE update? Would be interested on your take for the new leo post. (He even admits they made a mistake) Feels like this criticism is off considering the follow up responses from them. Not saying riot is great it was still a real blunder from them but you cant say they don't admit to it.
(ps. I am a newer vct fan and I do know there's a bunch of negative history with riot and their managment that I don't know about it so maybe I'm looking at this through rose tinted glasses)
How does linear time work?
@@RLewisReports Linearly? Idk man. Im not sure I get this. But googling this I'm learning that I think time isnt linear wich hasn't helped.
“Hey we stripped you of your opportunity, but we believe they’ll do it again on another org in the future! Good luck players! Bye.” Lmfao
"esports" dying?
Fuck yeah!
I blame Leo fartia
exactly moron faria was the global esports head of Wildrift gave up on it after a year. then gets promoted to val esports and proceeds to ruin it.
man and i though dota2 scene is bad
18:06 As UTree would say "F*** YOU Kroenke"
this guy is funny lel. I'm not just saying that cuz he's bashing valo. i like CS, but i agree with his take on CS esports as well rn. i think they need to change their current system of tournaments after tournaments that don't mean anything and lead no where with brackets after brackets with no risk for losers.
@@railguncsLets be honest,the only reason cs have so many events+sponsor=gambling and loot boxes
If u pay attention,90% evevnts has betting sponsor behind them,even intel
It's what valorant lack,Riot never accept gamling and trade skins
If Valve remove loot boxes+steam market for cs=cs will die
I love cs since it's hl's mod
But its just funny when people still bullshitting cs still alive because people love it
Lets be honest,cs still alive=because of gambling and loot boxes+steam market
I can bet all my money,if Steam remove loot boxes+steam market=cs will die in less than a year
no sponsor=the scene will be death
And u wont find any cs event without betting sponsor
Even Valve's official event has betting sites hidden behind them as sponsor
This content is the most delicious grape \m/
Is he actually arguing that it’s a good thing that all tournaments are held in Europe and there is no league plays to help nurture and support weaker regions?
Yes, yes he is
@@epicsomethin1635 not sure why you are proud of that. Is there any other esport of comparable size that only has one region? It’s frankly embarrassing.
Imagine if we lived in a world where NA was actually decent. How much more fun would majors be. You could actually talk shit back and forth. (EU talks shit regardless because they have no class. In Rocket League we’d never talk shit on weaker regions like SA and OCE)
Right now CS is in the same position as the American Sports you like to make fun of. Only your region plays it and you still call winning teams the best in the world.
love the ohms shirt, Richard!
Pacemaker account talking about esports xdd Good one Rich. Ty Mr. Nord :)
How is it TODAAAY though?!
Esports needs pay-per-view so bad
Nobody would pay to watch a major; That's basically what the "viewer pass" does for CS, the added coin/packages/pickems just add value as well. Another example of valve being 10 years ahead of the curve,and being the only company to solve these super complex problems
It would die
@@CatfishBradley valve does nothing and wins
>epic games store was lauched
>nobody visits it excepted for free games
>valve did nothing
>valorant was launched
>valve did nothing
>cs still has more players than valorant
>rockstar can count to 3
>valve cant count to 3
>valve has better reputation and it did nothing
@@CatfishBradleyhe probably meant on tv, eleague tried to broadcast csgo on tv via tbs but they disappeared in 2019
Good shit Richard
So they were humiliated
cool deftones shirt king
Not much like a good Rich "I Told You So".
50:15 Apoca-Rich
Richard can you please make your facecam fullscreem for stuff like these, I would like to see you talk rather than tucked in the corner
How can he put full screen cam when he’s viewing photos and forums? What????
Ive said it before and ill say it again. You cannot CREATE a successful esport. All successful esports were based on games people otherwise enjoyed. Dota, game mode from warcraft. Cs 1.6 just a halflife mod that took off. Starcraft, first game was successful because it was fundamentally a fun game, they tried to make the second one an esport first and a fun game second. It flopped quickly. Overwatch, one of the biggest forced memes of an esport to ever exist. Businesses are really trying to capitalize on peoples hobbies the complete wrong way. Idk how they dont see it.
1v1 games such as quake and pretty much all fighting games do have a chance of having a successful esport. quake's basically chess in fps-form, fighting games are very accessible and perfect for LAN environments. also less organizational hassle due to not having to manage a team.
@@krob_ yes but it wasn't designed that way to start. And fighting games are the closest thing to an exception to the rule. But none of the fighting games are anywhere near as big as other esports.
@@firemarshaldilit's not only about 'fun' but profit too
Lets be honest,without loots boxes+betting sites,csgo wont be as big as it's today
Want a bet?
If Steam remove steam market for cs+remove lootboxes=cs will die with it
it's not only about 'fun' but profit
@@julianvalorant3440 they were only able to successfully monitor it AFTER if was successful. They were on their 4th version of the game before skins.
Valorant is hugely successful as an esport though. There are hundreds of thousands of viewers -- it has literally succeeded in that regard. People WANT to watch the game, they WANT to watch streamers. Same thing for League. The problem isn't that, the problem is that Riot tries to push for WAY too big of a scene that isn't sustainable. The same thing happened in CS for a while too.
I am definitely bias… but from my perspective the best esport system we have is counter strikes. Yes there are shitty esport orgs there too… but I sometimes think valve does a better job mitigating some of this bs than it’s competitors by not being overly involved. Let me know if I’m wrong 😊
Valve / CS is one of the most mature types in this scene.. I don't think you're wrong. It's been a couple of years and I'd still like to say that there is interesting new content in Valorant - but there really isn't. Riot seems to be sticking to their LoL approach (and I wont argue that it works - at least in that game), but it doesn't work in Valorant.
Then again, I'm fairly biased on the part, myself.. still, I've been saying from the start that e.g. Valorant's L0 access will not fix any type of cheater issue, and here we are, people are increasingly realizing that even though they may think Valorant is "completely free of cheaters", that's not true & the lack of a replay system is merely a move by Riot to make sure this isn't seen as blatantly as it would be, say, in CS instead (which on the matter is not better in any way, but it is far more transparent).
Who would have known that Tencent would have f*cked up
valarante child game.... look to cartoon grapfix to make kid player happy like children show.. valarante cartoon world with rainbow unlike counter strike with dark corridorr and raelistic gun.. valarante like playhouse. valarant playor run from csgo fear of dark world and realism
This but unironically game just doesn’t hit the same
its sad to see that Valo esports is dying, the only new game that was actually fun to watch. I guess FPS fans will have to back and watch 30 year old dust2 played for 7,5 millionth time.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it 🤷🏼♂️
Really showing your esports knowledge there, even if cs has had the weakest map pool in a while
Nice Deftones shirt.
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The fucking mothership 😂😂
50:45 "this isn't because" and cries about something most people didn't even know it happened. Yeah it is definitely because of that xD
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i always thought franchising has no place in e sports. we're not the nba / nfl etc...
valorant just isnt fun to watch compared to cs. at least thats how I feel.
I agree, although I prefer playing Valorant. There always seems to be something you can work on in Valorant so long as you aren’t mindlessly spamming jett or reyna and complaining that the game is boring. Also I just prefer the gunplay more, I like tapping, bursts and only going for headshots and CSGO is not that. CSGO has worse first shot accuracy than Valorant and the answer for basically every gunfight is to stop and fullspray until the enemy dies.
Watching Valorant is so bad. When I was playing CSGO I actually enjoyed watching some streamers that were gold nova and tournaments were always fun. (Also maybe this is a bad take but I preferred the time when betting skins on games was legal, I don’t like how people used this as a form of gambling money and matchfixing but I actually felt invested in the Tier 2/3 semi-pro scene because you could bet on them and it was fun watching them grow. It created basically a micro-storyline for me. An ethical alternative would maybe be for valve to create a way to bet on games in the client giving each person like 10coins for each day they log on and once you earn like 1million coins you get to open a rare skin case that is only available through bets, you can’t buy coins or sell them, so matchfixers wouldn’t be able to earn money just from one game, they would have to fix like hundreds of games and then they still aren’t guaranteed to earn a skin worth money from the rare box)
Anyway, it actually annoys me that a lot of the popular variety streamers love playing valorant because I hate watching them play valorant, it is not fun. However I may be biased since I am a much higher rank than them, but even when watching pros to learn from them I often found myself not caring.
With that being said, I definitely think Valorant is more fun to watch than a Moba, because to some degree Valorant limits the amount of abilities and effects. Where Mobas are rainbow vomit 24/7 and you can’t understand why a team wins a teamfight. In Valorant there can be a lot of effects happening on the screen at one time but you can usually understand why one team wins the fight. Also, after the early round ability spam abilities stop being used and the game devolves into gun duels which can be pretty hype sometimes, and easier to understand as a viewer.
1. it's incredibly annoying for a spectator to watch all these vision blockers. it's even hard for the commentators to know whats going on.
2. there's only one dude making maps and lack community content. most of the maps are just ugly and play like dogshit compared to the CS map pool.
3. no replay.
5. movement mechanics feel like dogshit. no counterstrafing and slow as hell.
6. balance of the heroes feels off(nerf cypher lol).
these are just my personal observstions why this game isn't doing it for me and i can't watch a single pro game to the end.
Riot balance is a thing, and is one of the reasonen I will not touch Valorant.
I love seeing this title just before cs2 release :)
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"But but but shroud said valorant is the top fps 🥺🥺".
Gee how nice of the "retired" or washed cs pros expressing their interest and sudden reinvogaration to return to counter strike!........2
a clickbait title. NA valorant is falling apart. well even that isnt 100% true. NA valorant just needed a reset. things are pretty much only going upwards in valorant
believe me this is the best fps game out there. so just stick with the negatives. crazy people always complaining
VALORANTE WHICH I HEARD IS A CHILD'S GAME
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