Everybody
knows about counter-strike, but not everybody understands what it means for
someone. I know, that not everyone is interested in cybersport, all this
annoying games are for kids you will say, but for some people it is not only a
hobby or a typical waste of time, but it is a full-time job with a huge amount
of fans all over the world.
One of the biggest and most prestigious event in CS:GO called ESL ONE
Cologne
It is a game, but you need to think like you are staying in the middle
of the hostilities. Different kind of tactics, grenades, dark corners and an
enormous variety of guns make this game cunning and interesting to watch. I
want to share you my knowledge about this game not on amateur level, how it
looks like when you are giving all your time to the game and making it your
lifestyle. Below you can see the most popular map in cs:go competitive called
de_mirage. How it looks like in the game:
One of the maps
in cs:go de_mirage
The first thing you need to know is that there are 2 teams, each team
consists of 5 players. Each player has a role in a game:
·
sniper,
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lurker,
·
support
or in game leader,
·
rifler,
·
entry
fragger.
Each role is very important and give us a sense to play as a team. The
game consists of 30 rounds (gun and pistol rounds) and the team, who take out
16 points with a minimum difference of 2 rounds is a winner-team.
16:14 score in a competitive match
Next thing I want you to told about is an importance to play as a team.
It is a game, where you can’t win match by yourself, it is unreal, so you must
play with your teammates, support each other and listen to your captain. Captain
is often sitting in the middle and gives coordination moves, where you need to
go, what you need to do and how to play, to win a round (1 point out of 16).
Players
in a team are speaking and deciding what to do in the next round
And one of the most important things in cs:go is communication between
your teammates. You must know every point on the map, to give information to
your teammates, where you were died, or maybe where you have seen an enemy. All
the points, bombsites, corners have names on every map. There is an example
below what it looks like.
Mini
map with designations of points
Also there is a huge community called “hltv” is open to discuss
everything about counter-strike: global offensive and its news.
1.Have you
ever tried to play a game called cs:go? If yes, how old you were?
2.What do
you think about the future of this game?
3.If you
have a chance to be a sponsor of a top-tier team, how much do you think you
need to pay them monthly?
Comments
- Great gameplay,
- Being great e-sport game ( Virtus Pro fan),
- Huge fanbase - second most popular game right now.
The biggest disadvantage are skins imo, but on the other hand it's better to pay for skins than paying for win (p2w games).
I think that cs will be as popular as it is and maybe in ten years they will create new part. For now it's one of the most popular game and I do not think it will change in near future. Although, it's too bad that Valve (publisher of Counter Strike) does not care about it as much as should be.
I think that teams from CS are earning a lot, even more than some "real sports". Still, it's way more less than boxer or football player, but ammount of money invested on e-sport is huge.
I think that the future for games in general is pretty bright. They are getting more and more popular, and certain ones, like CS, LOL etc. generate huge cash flow, and will generate even more in the near future.
I imagine, in average, that would be a few thousand dollars monthly, of course depending on the team being sponsored. I have no idea about the actual values, so I'd just guess that for a top-tier team the sum could go up to tens of thousands of dollars monthly?
I think about the future of this game that it's the end. It's not a game, it's marketing... where administration takes a money and doesn't do anything. Just now, it's not a game. Now you don't get a fun how 5-7 years ago.
And ok, this game is popular now. And it has been popular for many years. But what do you think how many years will it be popular? Should the gamers find another job to not be unemployed in 10-20 years?
As to your third question. I don't understand why I should sponsor a team. Does it work as bet or so? (Like in other sports).
I think, it will be popular for about 5 years,no more. They will work in organisations,where they were playing and develop another discipline.
It is just a question about their salaries, how much money they had. And if you are speaking about the bets, it is another topic to discuss.
I have never tied to play game called cs:go. I prefer to spend my free time doing some sports. In my opinion playing games gives you nothing. I know that some game teams earn a lot of money but I think you must have alot of luck and spend a lot of time training. I don;t know this cs'go world .
I think that that computer games market won't grow endlessly and I feel that now we have stable situation.
It is hard question but I think that it would be a lot of money. A lot of companies want to pay players for using them as place for their advertisments and it is a win-win situation for me. People can earn money doing what they love and companies have a very influencing advertisments. :)
I think future is the same like with other games. When I was child, Counter Strike 1.6 was very popular, there were a lot of tournaments where teams could earn a lot of money. When Global Offensive comes, everybody stopped playing previous version. The same will be with cs:go.
I don't want to be a sponsor of a top-tier team because paying for playing computer games is horrible situation for me.
If i had a choice to sponsor e-sport team, it wouldn't be CS:GO team. I'd rather choose LoL team.
I think it would, however, remain as one of the top e-sports games of all time. It has a lot of fans, players and teams that play it for a lot of the time. Personally, I enjoy some other games like League of Legends or Overwatch much more. For me, CS lacks some depth that other games seem to provide. Even if they don't there still are games that have much better mechanics (in my opinion), than Counter Strike. I'll just leave R6: Siege here as an example.
I don't know, how much money does it take to be a sponsor of CS: GO top-tier team. If I had to be a sponsor of any e-sports team, I wouldn't choose any CS team.
Back then there were also international contests (but they were not even close to being the huge business they are today). However, my friend's brother used to live relatively well off prizes won in these contests.
I think that this game is at the peak of its popularity. On Twitch over 0,5 million people watch CS:GO tournaments. So far it's very popular and probably the most popular game in the world. But I think that new games will come and CS:GO will be less popular.
If the e-sport team would be from the USA it would cost me millions of dollars to fully sponsor it. But in Poland it would cost me 10 times less I think.
Personally I'm no longer playing professionally, since it's very exhausting, but I do see the effort all of those players put in, especially during tournaments.
In my opinion the future of this game looks great. There are more and more tournaments and people are more openminded to e-sport so CS:GO will be alive for a long time.
I have no idea about the earnings of cs:go top tier players but probably a lot of money.
It was in 2012 so I was 29.
2.What do you think about the future of this game?
It is another CS - there is always something to improve and I think new title will be presented to keep the fun going on.
3.If you have a chance to be a sponsor of a top-tier team, how much do you think you need to pay them monthly?
Would not spend a dime on this - sorry. I'm playing for fun.
You really have to love doing something to keep doing it for 20 years.
I've never really got into CS, I played some 1.6 for a few weeks, but when at one point I got killed 5 times in a row, by guys shooting through walls (you can do it at certain places, but you have to predict where the enemy is, you can't see through walls, not without cheating at least) in a span of one minute, I kind of decided it wasn't really a game for me. I've always preferred strategy games anyway.
A while ago I watched a lot of StarCraft2, but it seems to have quieted down a lot last year. I tried playing it, but I was nowhere near good enough to compete at any proper level. It's amazing what level of skills it takes to be a pro SC2 player. I think it contributes to the allure of it, watching people compete, presenting their inhuman skills...
To be honest, I don't play this game anymore (boring, even with friends), last time was approximately 2 years ago, but I think it has a more or less bright future, for sure, it won't change or evolve dramatically, because it's already a perdect game for cybersport and Valve will support it for a long time.
I think , It's a tricky one, for top-tier team - 100 000$, considering that, In practice, the team has many sponsors , so 100 000$ per month from one sponor is pretty good, maybe even too much.
A few days ago I was watching my boyfriend playing cs:go and I felt a lil bit nostalgic, but in a pleasant way))
I think that this game will be interesting for further generations, but I would not like my child to play this game because I was a witness of the period of time when almost every boy played it and they were addicted to it
Frankly, I have no idea
It's so so popular that i think it will go even further until valve create new one.
Dunno, i just know it is tons of money.
I think this game will still be so popular in the world. Counter - Strike has got a huge group of fans.
Unfortunately I have no idea about the earnings of professional gamers. However, I think it is a lot of money...
is developing very dynamically. There are more and more people interested in CS.
I think that this popularity is the result of appearing the young generation, who, playing different games, is familiar with this kind of games. I would like to mention one Polish team VirtusPro. It is a group of players who are not only good at CS but also popular in game world. Thanks to their high positions in world e-sport statistics, CS gained popularity both in Polish society and other countries. However I am a big fan of games,
I have no intention of sponsoring any team.
I've been following the esport part for about two years now, mostly because it turned out that I have a talent for gambling. I've made over 1000$ dollars on those matches now, starting from around 10$. I just hope I am not addicted.
The future of CS:Go is to be replaced by another installment on the Source 2 engine, i believe that failing to do so will promptly define its fall. The new wave of gaming is here, and its not too long till a better CS:GO game arises... With the growth of the Battle Royale genre, class shooters bringing back interest in them, CS:GO might be coming to an end...
Oh sponsoring the team its a complicated thing - sometimes u dont really have to pay anything to the team members, sometimes its giving what they need simply enough, rent a house for them, give them peripherals, provide better equipment, fly them to a tournament. And for love of god E-Sport, we call them E-Sports not cybersports ugh
It is the most popular game, it had some versions going, all of them were successful so I think nothing will change in near future.
As in every job, being the top tier player is getting with top tier salary. So I guess it will be something around 10k$/month.