The VAC ban account numbers are also said to have decreased recently.
Currently, it appears like Valve is concentrating on the release of Counter-Strike 2, with frequent updates and revisions. The first game, CS:GO, has been around for more than 11 years, but Valve no longer seems to be a fan of it. Online players have noted an increase in cheats in the game.
Reddit user “Rising Issue of Cheaters in CS:GO” has been posting reports of players’ unhappy encounters. The fact that the thread was later deleted by the admins of GlobalOffensive’s official Reddit forum indicates how important Valve may have believed this to be. However, as Dot Esports notes, gamers claim that they encounter “at least one suspicious player once every five matches.”
A different person apparently expressed their passion for the game and want to keep playing it, but that the “current state is disheartening.” Another CS:GO player with 10,000 hours in the game described losing to “2-3 blatant cheaters on sub-100-hour accounts” in some of the games.
The study also stated that very few players are now being punished as a result of the VAC Ban in March, which deleted over 4000 players. According to data from SteamID, the number of bans decreased to 50 or even less in August.
Cheaters have always been a hard challenge for players to overcome, interfering with their enjoyment of the games. With the introduction of CS2, it appears that CS:GO players are being forced to endure a bit too much pressure. As excited as players are for the release of the new game, many also hope Valve would give its other golden boy from a different era a little more attention.
