tbh i have a hard time seeing it as a tier1 competitive game that will make it big. but content creators seem to have a really good time with valorant.
Val much better for content but that doesn’t mean it won’t do good competitively… it’s already much bigger than a lot of other games. Cs only has montages and funny voice comms (or unique game modes if you’re WarOwl or nadeking). But Val has constant maps and agent releases meaning agent setups/lineups will always be produced, a easy access custom match making shit like “5 irons vs 1 radiant” videos doable (cs has this too I guess), it has montages and voicecomms like CS, and it’s much more entertaining and digestible IMO. CS streams are either gambling or boring dudes shift walking around a map making a few callouts and looking at the sky for a pixel perfect smoke and flash lineup