if cs2 releases today as a brand new game (without the history and skin investment etc) NO ONE would play it, shiet boring af zzzzzzzzzZZZZzzzz
is this confirmed already ? cause that will be even worse for cs (losing faceit) , faceit is actually really good at separating the adults from the kids in cs (and i would pay for the same in valo btw), i doubt the boomers will enjoy playing with kids if they do make a new mm system with new anti cheat etc..
There's nothing stopping kids from playing Faceit rn, almost half the games I get put into have someone that can't be more than 12. But the bright side is at least when you get put on a team with kids they're at least on a similar skill level. Like Global in CS has such a high skill disparity between the bottom and top globals so games are usually always 16-0s or something, thats the main reason I play Faceit because the games are closer and faceit level 6-7 is probably the average skill of a global elite so there's many more ranks to seperate skill.
Imo if Valve simply improves there elo system and maybe gives you an option to see where you place on a leaderboard that would be good enough to convert many faceit players, pros would obviously still use pro league but yk