The Story of CS:GO: The Game That Never Dies

[Music] if you want to get good you have to sacrifice people are starting to remember see as go as I remember one point stick cs:go felt like they lost hope in many ways for the second time pronax was one DOCSIS they cross the middle it's gonna be a challenge and [Music] [Applause] ladies and gentlemen are you ready for a counter-strike [Music] in order to tell the story of csgo to understand what it is what it was and what it will be we need to go back in time in the beginning back in 1999 and was the original counter-strike it was [Music] owned by the early to mid-2000s CS had gone from an experiment conducted by a couple of college kids to an official valve property and one of the first truly global eSports the key if without striking me is very early on it became like kind of a global gaming it was one of the first in sport that wasn't just like a few countries have alien to it or just one Li Jie's into it's like nearly the whole world to some degree was interested in counter-strike the game was viciously fast-paced but painstakingly strategic endlessly sophisticated it's simple enough for a ten-year-old to understand that wasn't convoluted or inaccessible it just had a skill ceiling so high that only a handful of humans could hit it it wasn't until the advent of 1.6 in 2003 that counter-strike started catching sight of its only real problem it was too good so much so that all the valves attempts to iterate on it seemed doomed from the start first there was the xbox release unfortunately by this point the console generation had already begun to take shape and valves controller oriented counter-strike was eclipsed by burgeoning titles like Halo and Call of Duty then in mid 2004 valve over saw the release of conditions zero INRI texturized version of 1.6 that underwent a series of setbacks delays and reworks on account of its third-party developers but the annoyances around condition 0 were short-lived since eight months after its release now published what was both CS is first true successor and its most controversial one source it did have some issues at launch I don't think there's any doubt about that which did turn a lot of the people off because obviously if you've got an existing game that's been out for years and it's great managing works perfectly finds it's been tweaked and then you get something new and it doesn't quite work obviously you're gonna stick to the one that you know and stick to the one that you feel is complete the criticism laid against source was simple it didn't feel like counter-strike valve did implement a wide array of changes mostly intended to improve quality of life but a lot of old-school 1.6 or thought they'd lowered the skill ceiling most for me what I believe this that most people kind of didn't get the same feeling from source that one would say it's kind of more like the lost brother or like it felt plastic the movement wasn't as good and it's like the way the feel of the game when playing and shooting like everything just felt off with that game the result was a divided a battle between source apologists and diehards who refused to abandon the old ways for eight years the counter-strike community had to endure a civil war until finally in 2012 the new hope emerged but before you're leaving somebody told me to of God Gabe can you ask him only one question and I believe many of them wants to know when are you going to release Counter Strike 2 [Music] [Music] after ignoring their prized FPS for nearly a decade valve finally decided to bless the community with a full-fledged counter-strike title a place for source lovers and 1.6 there's alike to take up arms and assure their game into the next generation csgo they felt like they lost hope for counter-strike in many ways and as soon as it launched the consensus surrounding Counter Strike global Offensive was clear it [ __ ] sucked it was really really bad I remember complaining about like I mean I'm Ehren people complain about Molotov recall of control everything was just different and everyone was very against it I don't thing I liked it because you're getting so used to the game you were playing before and then you just have to start of something new and the game isn't fully evolved and stuff like that so you know there's coming more updates but still you're just like what the hell is this csgo was imbalanced riddled with bugs and had extremely wonky mechanics what's more the game was essentially a combination of one point six source leaving a large majority of both player bases dissatisfied how my first official with table 2 analyst first of all I was really frustrated because as I said my career on CS sauce was just starting so I I didn't know what to expect pretty much before the first play which was drug violence er today before in practice I was terrible my manager was better than me the Molotov were so overpowered I think they slowed you down when you walk through them and they gave more damage than they do now or something like that and you couldn't distinguish them but there was so many game breaking bugs people literally predicted that it would kill counter-strike just a little bit of hyperbole but it's like a way to sort of say like that they had gone into the other direction basically where it's like it's too much that semi-single csgo had been dropped by I am no major tournaments were running it because the swc was dropping off a cliff at that point in time essentially it was a second-tier game but there was one team that saw csgo for what it could be a generational battleground the one true successor to counter-strike and one of the world's next big eSport the team wasn't ninjas in pyjamas a Swedish super squad who brought together the best of the best from both 1.6 and source in an effort to take the csgo scene by storm and they did so in CSS early days you essentially had nip who was made for the game Fryeburg was the entry frag the flarin was the oppor exist was the ingame leader and foresting generator the two star players which completely rolled over everyone these five ingredients you had the team that went 87 and oh now that's a record that still stands to this day and it just shows like how dominant they were in the early days of csgo sick and tired of watching ni p win everything in sight other rosters started to follow suit in addition to the fact that ni P had lit a fire under the ass of competitive csgo the game had improved significantly in the months following its release the game was improving very quickly very quickly in fact much quicker than normally you expect couple this with the announcement of the game's first ever major in late 2013 and it was finally starting to feel as if valve actually cared about counter-strike so when the Dreamhack winner tournament was announced for csgo in 2013 it almost felt like a validation of the csgo scene and the csgo competitive scene specifically but this would only be the first step of what we would get in the future ni piece first real challenger came in the form of french powerhouse very games but soon another swedish terror rolled around and they were good enough to surpass ni p oh how the mighty yep this forest alone in our one on three I think we just might pray for it boys picks up the one kill but he has to scout these are one or two all Schneider in there and Jane you'll have to do is just wait and find time and there it is they win it and look at the even can't jumping up one of the most composed people I think in counter-strike complete celebration what a victory and how they deserve it by 2014 csgo had blossomed into everything that community had hoped for it had become a full-fledged eSport France Poland and both of Sweden's best squads had each secured a major title and the game had amassed a repertoire of mythological moments is to control your nerves in the situation daunted however might cut stand the game of oh do they have a width roost going on currently yes oh my god this is beautiful you can't squeak noise while he's here he sees them now they're straight headshot they have no idea Smith's looking confused and dazed okay well then I'd say God's time to retake didn't break this time they're feeling more solid care right coming up from behind the hole so alone you know one on two throws out another gray here cats up another kill is it happening again prone access all over that bonus in the middle of nowhere he's gonna sit out here we go yeah right it's gonna be waiting Eco charges in dust [Music] reactions and here it comes - on 5jw and flusher there is nothing they can do any longer ni p have one Gamescom 2014 ladies and gentlemen 1613 it finally happens then there was the fact that the games player base had skyrocketed much of this had to do with the fact that in late 2013 csgo was given what is perhaps its most significant feature skins the skins update was a big change for the community giving you something you can buy something that you can customise your guns it's done where it doesn't necessarily impact gameplay but it gives people this exciting element to keep coming back and keep playing to get more skins by late 2014 csgo had surged in popularity and it felt as if the game had already gotten bigger than anyone thought was possible then 2015 Kenny yes stuck in the site finding mole that's brilliant if Kenny yes again oh my goodness Ken yet there they aren't rushing this time around they're taking their sweet time hoping to catch somebody Picon envious side head well that's what happens when you go around the corner happy with wanting debris is like sweating ball to 50 out jumping and shooting against one molehill looking for the study hunted down time is up oh my god yeah where you gonna make enemy killing one second left they just need some kills here and they will win it for the second time products is one Friday [Applause] [Music] continues 1513 last nanosecond kill and look at the guns sure aw peas phonetic they're ready to shoot some ducks as they cross the middle it's gonna be a challenge and not in this lifetime and ladies and gentlemen it's gonna require a miracle and nothing less for happy to make it out I don't think there's any chance flusher looking to end this it's major championship in global Offensive what the 15 the counter federal offense mystery I think that is pretty clear by this by this moment we saw Katowice shattered viewership records we watched the indomitable reign of Kenny s we cheered at Cologne arguably the greatest major of all time 2015 was the year that csgo didn't just boom it exploded is he gonna try and go huge it [Applause] but it also had his fair share of downs for starters there was the r8 an obscenely overpowered revolver that managed to single-handedly destroy the game in three days before it was nerved it's like a nightmare the antithesis the anatomy of everything that counter-strike is supposed to be in terms its principles its framework as a game it's like valve don't understand the actual core concept tenants the core tenants the concepts the components that made CS a great game then there was the infamous op nerf which sent devotees of counter-strike single most iconic weapon into nothing short of an existential crisis and last but certainly not least the North American match-fixing scandal after which members of ibuypower were famously issued indefinite bans I thought you guys needed to know that that actually if I could have got us to a resolution where the guys just did a even seasoned ban from steve-o all I wanted to do was highlight that match-fixing was real it was going on people were effectively being defrauded from their skins in exchange for profits by 2016 it had become apparent that the game would have to overcome certain obstacles if it hoped to keep growing in the same way League or dota were for starters it was an eSport in which counterterrorism was both gamified and glorified something which potential investors didn't find very appealing anything outside of eSports won't go anywhere near French teams right now because of because of the climate there is any chance everyone's interested by the stats that CS brings but as soon as they hear terrorists again some terrorism unlike League dota and the recently released overwatch CS wasn't cartoonish and family-friendly it was a milsim driven bloodbath one whose photorealistic guns and incessant gore made for difficult conversations and sales and marketing meetings I love the analogy that I that I also try and bring up all the time to UFC they have the same problem how do they find sponsorships for the UFC you have an octagon in which people are you know quite literally bleeding on the company logos that are sponsoring them you're only gonna find like handful sponsors that are in on that there was also the issue of cheated following the back ban of French opera Kali in 2014 and suspicions around North American up-and-comer Sabrosa two years later a hysteria started to develop around the idea that players could be cheating on land these allegations aren't coming from online games these allegations coming from land in this instance actually seems to community overwhelmingly believes that this guy is a cheese and let's not forget the fact that by 2016 skin gambling was reported to have become a billion-dollar industry things came to a head when youtubers team Martin and Pro syndicate started marketing a lottery site that they happened to own a fact they failed to disclose to their viewers and we found this new site called csgo lotto so I'll link it down in description if you guys want to check it out but we were betting on it today and I won a pot of like 69 dollars or something like that so it's a pretty small pot it resulted in an FTC investigation 23 cease and desist letters and several class-action lawsuits against valve for condoning underage gambling but the biggest obstacle facing csgo was the fact that valve the very developer who brought counter-strike to the masses didn't seem to care whether or not it succeeded okay counter-strike works now this guy just gonna go like that and I'm dead do you literally see like his [ __ ] shoulder patch and you just died from a pistol from that far away god gaben you suck so much penis at making video games it [ __ ] hurts me bro it [ __ ] you're so rich it's insane how could you not fix this [ __ ] game sorry what if this had to do with the fact that since csgo is launched in 2012 valve had put nearly all of their eggs in the dota basket from a multi-million dollar tournament to an engine overhaul to a never-ending sea of skins feature implementations gameplay updates and seasonal events doh had everything an enthusiast can ask for csgo on the other hand it's because people are starting to get over scans a little bit and counterstrikes going back to where it was supposed to be and that is before the skins came out the game was really not very far really not doing that well in competitive standpoint but the community persevered in fact it was around this time that CS saw the rise of a new generation of competitors competitors who were young enough that they'd come up on go the result was an influx of players who'd grown impossibly attuned to the games complex mechanics it was also around this time that csgo started to solidify itself as a truly international eSport 2016 saw one of one point six is single most dominating regions make a thunderous return to the world of counter-strike Brazil comes once again the first base is the trainees gonna hit the ground there's cold how does he do this told us safely velocity with you'll play Guardian versus taco it may just be destined to fade and it's throwing off the team winning their first major championship trying to walk through the smoke but it's just not gonna happen sk-gaming second major championship in a row they are your way and by 2017 more contenders than ever were entering the fray from the long-awaited resurgence of the Danes Pasha coming in with a refract but he's down the bomb has been picked up by Dupree to one of the greatest cinderella stories in counterstrike history I just say all of place that I Laurie or and second north helped me and they wore measure 2017 was the year that csgo entered a new era of competitive play one in which no single region could rightfully exert superiority over the others and rosters were diversifying as a result dominate New York to 2017 to the Barclays center all the way through this tournament they've looked so so good still it felt as if the game was continuously be bottlenecked and had plateaued as if this adored eSport was faded to play second fiddle to the newer flash year titles in terms of popularity sustainability and acceptance all because it had an absent and uncaring developer valve just sitting up on high and then every now and then suddenly like 10 cows fall over dead and we're all supposed to in queue at what does I mean and the angry with all babies because of what we said about the RA like this is not a reasonable state of affairs for again that's making hundreds of millions of dollars the future of csgo didn't necessarily look grim it just didn't look as bright as the community felt it should be with TI's prize pool becoming increasingly absurd and franchising being touted as the future of eSports it felt as if slowly but surely counter-strike was being overshadowed and then in January of 2018 something momentous happened after this round we're either going to overtime or we're crowning a new major champion were handing away a trophy in this next round potentially something so historic that it brought the gaming world to its feet nothing else is going on he's on [Applause] they came back all the way oh in a year when a billion-dollar battle royale became the most played video game and creation when franchising became a reality when streaming fortnight and ninja somehow became synonymous with eSports a year in which OD Cinderella their way to the ages in the most miraculous way imaginable and IG liberated League of Legends from the tyranny of South Korea five North American misfits banded together in Boston bruised battered and bled their way to the finals of a major and put on the performance that shattered one of Twitch's most coveted viewership records in the corner with the AWP but do they realize this I think he's been spotted now I don't have a smoke toy to play with you can delay them if you can occupy their attention long enough his teammates can make the play just by staying there [Applause] [Music] [Applause] do you know what that noise means that it means it's match point cloud nine again there they reminded the world of something that it never should have forgotten in the first place that no matter who they are where they are or whatever other games they might enjoy whether they're nerds normies or something in between people show up for counter-strike [Music] for the period [Music] of youth waits patiently the pushup [Applause] dick can't watch the phaser [Music] [Applause] it has to be one of the most incredible storylines we've ever had counter-strike isn't just a game it's a way of life a culture a community one of the oldest institutions in all of eSports one of the biggest things about counter-strike just how it's always been evolving but yet with fundamentals of it haven't really changed at all and it's community involvement that I think it's been so big to the growth of it over time it's a 20 year old half-life mod with awful graphics outdated mechanics and a shitty sound engine and yet it remains the crown jewel of fps is the og the goat the most storied serious prestigious enduring and competitive shooter the world has ever seen the medium for clicking heads against which all others are judged and by 2019 it felt like people were starting to remember that [Music] like there'd been a call to action back to back yet back-to-back pro-league parts I season seven Chicago and now for the first time ever same thing let's call another chance to be holy for the first time in history the best of all [ __ ] die and teams were answering it like never before as if anything were possible if it's our PK this tropic of in serious trouble and Lia's how long can he survive the way out but he will burn and a bangle will have themselves a grand final appearance here in the Berlin major can you believe it but they have proved us all wrong leaving a trend in a bun Melissa's gone [Applause] as if everyone from bands to streamers to players to orgs had found a reason to get excited about counter-strike again [Music] [Music] and were finally in a position to capitalize on that excitement it felt like for the first time in a long time the future of CS was uncertain in a good way I had definitely the thing at one point they were made something assuming that it works the way that we want the franchise to work for it doesn't matter whether you're flicking you're off flipping your knife winning a major of rushing B after a few beers you're engaged in some of the most esteemed and elemental practices in all of these sports and whatever happens whatever the future holds for the beautiful ballistic thing that we call Counter Strike one thing is for certain it's not going anywhere [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thanks for watching if you want more content like this hit the sub button and ring that notification bell for unique bite-sized videos you will find anywhere else in a part Instagram Twitter and Facebook pages [Music]

Channel: theScore esports

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Id: H8Nv--NOU2k

Length: 30min 9sec (1809 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 09 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/SebastienMS]

Hey guys!

Hope you guys enjoy this. I edited the video and put everything I could to make this a love letter to CS in every way. Was super happy to have had the opportunity to put it together.

[u/lolBEEF]

Wow, that was a great video.

[u/Marodac]

This game has consistently made other FPS games feel lacking, not just in aim mechanics.

The movement is simple yet it has nuances that can seperate the pros from someone who is good in the game.

The consequences of an unprepared rush/losing critical HP, is dire in the round and maybe even the round(s) after if you lose the current round, because your economy is at stake.

No FPS game has been made that is so simple in concept, yet has such depth, and it is beautiful.

[u/TheVicBro]

It's been a while since a video got me all emotional and stuff 😅

[u/GANdeK]

Because it kills every other FPS once you play it. That’s why I wish it just gave us something else to do/progress into every once a while :/

[u/fintetsu]

Not just a game. It's our game.

[u/Lytre]

I started playing CSGO for the Cyka Blyat meme, stayed to root for Kaze, waiting for Jame Time to happen & wondering when will Absolute play in an international tournament.

A game like no other.

[u/bagson9]

I know it was a big deal for NA, but I feel like you gave the win at Boston quite a bit more time than it deserved when compared the all of the other significant events and topics that weren't included or only briefly touched upon.

[u/Zoradesu]

why am i crying in the club rn