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Valorant’s problem isn’t a matter of time — being younger than CS — Valorant’s problem is systemic: the ever expanding flood of utility will make the game fundamentally less cohesive and palatable to watch than the simple mechanical and tactical brilliance of CSGO
Idk man people enjoy those cool and flashy raze plays for example. Its just a matter of how the meta will be and if its simple enough to understand. U dont have to know what every utility does to understand val. If the meta gets very slow like we used to have in the sage cypher meta it will get boring.
Also valorant casters and especially spectators have to step up their game
Yeah but riot sucks, they dont want to make a creative mode or give people the opprtunity to make custom servers like in CS.
With the reasoning being iT wOuLd TaKe 5 YeArS aNd Its Not WoRtH iT we BettEr make OuR oWn GamEmOdes.
Then they proceed to never give us even a single good gamemode and we have to wait a year for the most copy paste shit thing Ive ever seen.
CS is solely surving off of its community and they can create so many fun things like hide and seek or custom aim trainer maps and stuff. Valorant will never, it will always be a marketing product. Val has one of the best mechanics and ideas I have ever seen in a game but riot is wasting SO much potential
Just imagine custom maps where u have to do raze challengws double aatchel through close corridors or you have to jump from a spot on the map and land in an other and it gets harder and harder each level
Exactly this.
"raze surf server" hell ye
"1v1 arena no abilities" hell ye
"survival map" where you go through a maze avoiding traps like a hidden satchel etc.
"find hidden path" where you try to find a path between the ranges of several kj turrets or something
"floor is lava" with jett/raze abilities
"custom DM" pistol only, operator only, headshot only, instant respawns, you name it
community created maps and modes. It really is what kept CS alive for so long. Now, if you want a break from ranked, all you can do is play a meaningless gamemode or sit in the range. In CS you can spend your "downtime" on surf and other custom servers. I used to spend so many hours in 1v1 arena and surf servers
It's really not
Users here say Valorant will continue the trend of rapidly growing in fanbase like it did over the debut 2 years of the game
I disagree with that, I think Valorant had a good start (I've written reasons why), but it won't last long, I mean it's already falling off
To be honest, Riot are doing everything for Valorant to bury deeper, 3 events a year, shit franchise 30 teams per world, I don't think I'll even watch 2023 VCT
I like to watch and follow Valorant esport more currently, but I don't think Valorant will ever be what CSGO is sadly. CSGO's culture and history is just something else. Its esport equivalent of football (soccer for NA people). You just can't beat the passion. And so far CSGO events >> Valorant events in almost every aspect.
Its just my prediction. No other game has reached similar status and spot like CSGO in esport outside of like LoL. So based on that its unlikely that Valorant will. Also looking at next year with franchising leagues and overall lack of international tournament it just feels rough. And for franchising leagues you need strong interest in majority of these regional leagues, but feels like the hype for these events has decreased and the viewership has been going downwards on some regions. Like think of LoL, LEC is big alone, LCS while kind of dying has still been big alone, there's a lot of interest and popularity in LCK (KR) alone. But what regional Valorant league can reach anything even close to that? Maybe NA and Japan and that's kind of it. Don't get me wrong though. I'm not saying Valorant esport is dying and I do believe it has its place and has a lot of potential in Asia especially, but overall I highly doubt it will ever take CSGO's spot as the goat of FPS esports.
It's because cs go for a long time was the only 5v5 fps with a strong esport scene. The most popular fps game is actually not cs go, it's crossfire ( just google it ), that game's developer just don't give much shit about esport. League has to compete with dota 2 in the same genre and still be the most watched esport of all time. Basically cs go just had no competition, thats why. With valorant, it's a different story.
Fan culture from 22 years old game and 2 years old game. People in japan probably came to watch an esport event for the first time in their entire life and in Japan during covid theres a rule that you can't fucking talk and keep your mask on ( watched a world cup qualification match in japan ). Give it time to develop the crowd culture.
I find cs super boring. It's allways the same old shit. But thats just me.
The utility in valorant ables players to make crazy plays and highlights thats csgo will never allow players to do.
Cs go has decades of history. I played 1.6 almost 20 years ago ffs. The game is legendary and has fans of all ages.
Val is litelay 2 and a half years later. Just don't compare. Obviosly val will fall short cause its arround for 1/10th of the time or less.
for me, as a game val is way more exciting to watch. not even close.
but hey. to each his own
I've been saying the same thing about how PRX being portrayed as so chaotic while in fact it's just the game made it look so chaotic.
This game is barely observable in viewers perspective with so many utilities throwing around. What PRX did on bind almost similar what Astralis did execution on inferno at csgo.
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