After thousands of hours online and a couple hundred offline, 3-4 years of playing, a couple thousand dollars spent, I've come to the conclusion that this game is bad. It's nothing to do with the mechanics or game play. It's the publisher. Valve does not care about us. Leaks after leaks, vacs after vacs, there's still so many cheaters in prime. Thanks for taking the one thing that us competitive players had (prime) and giving it to any and all players for free. I've recently been playing Faceit, it's better, obviously. But we shouldn't require a third party app to help us get back into competitive games without cheaters. I want to improve my in-game rank, but I've hit a HUGE plateau due to inconsistent games with closet cheaters. Improving anti-cheat and banning hardware would be the biggest fix and would welcome newer players that won't resort to cheating because other people are. Operations, new maps, models, etc WON'T bring in new players, it only satisfies the older players to keep them playing this, what is now, a cash grab for Valve. I don't know how much longer I can put up with this, I feel sorry for those who sink thousands of hours and have to deal with the same.

ps valorant will not replace cs LUL