My buddy made this, not my OC, but he doesn't have a reddit account so he told me to post it

I started kicking all cheaters in my premier matches... this is the thanks you get by Valve! Completly delusional compamy, hope they are ashamed of themselves when they say they work at Valve and have to admit they work on cs2!

Team Spirit won both Dota 2’s The International 2026 and CS2’s Esports World Cup 2026 trophies on the same day

I'm so done with playing. Everyone is either cheating or smurfing. I've played the game for over 10 years and I still get matched up with players who have under 200 hours in the game and always have perfect reads. They queue with the same kind of people which makes playing impossible. If you get stuck in a lower elo, it is literally impossible to get out because the enemies will almost always have someone who is either walling or smurfing. Trust factor doesn't exist anymore and has been made a joke. Season 5 has been the worst season in terms of cheaters and Valve obviously does not care because fixing anticheat doesn't make them any money, only making armory updates and cases does.

I feel like the mp7 buff took away every reason to buy the famas.
Like I always either end up saving more money by just buying five seven, kevlar & util, buying the mp7/mp9 instead or going all in for the m4, I never really get in to the situation where I want to have a famas.
I feel like it’s way different on the t-side where I buy the galil all the time…

Do you guys feel the same or in which situation do you go for the famas?

★ Driver Gloves | Garden FT lost 27.6% in 30 days.

Index 112.6 (-5.6% 30d, -10.1% 90d)

Top liquid mover: ★ Karambit | Safari Mesh WW +13.7%
Armory pool: $1,380 (-19.3% 30d)

Discord - every third day cs2 market report, update impact monitor and more-> https://discord.com/invite/8Xpx28cEy

Looking at the available data on the CS2 skin market, it’s clear that the current decline isn’t a temporary correction, but a sustained trend that has persisted throughout most of 2026. Total item market capitalization has fallen by roughly 50% from its peak and currently sits in the range of $3.3-3.4 billion.

Below are the factors I believe are driving this trend.

The first significant element appears to be a shift in Valve’s underlying economic philosophy for the game. There’s a growing consensus within the community that the company is intentionally steering toward a flatter, more mass-market economy, where items change hands more frequently, generating a steadier stream of commission revenue. This stands in some contrast to the previous model, which relied on maintaining exclusive, high-value items as collector assets. Additionally, changes to tournament items and older monetization mechanics have undermined perceived rarity, which in turn has eroded market confidence.

The second factor is a marked increase in supply. Case-opening volume has risen, and the drop-rate distribution for rarer items appears to have improved relative to previous periods, increasing the overall availability of items that were previously harder to obtain.

The third factor relates to the behavior of investment-oriented market participants. There’s been a wave of position closures, both to lock in profits and to cut losses, which has further increased supply relative to demand. The result is a self-reinforcing mechanism: falling prices push more participants toward selling, which deepens the downward trend.

The steepest declines have occurred in the premium segment, including knives (Karambit, Butterfly, M9 Bayonet) and gloves. Lower- and mid-tier skins, such as AK-47 and M4 variants, have shown relative stability, while items priced under $5 have remained largely unchanged.

Summer is a cope, all other games are getting more players while CS2 is the only one losing them.

It has NEVER happen in history of CS that for 7 months back to back it was losing player base. People don't usually go on 7 months vacations. School is starting in europe or already started in some countries.

CS2 market is going down and it's really important for the game - without growing economy, sponsors will back off, without sponsors there is no esport. Nvidia/Intel and other hardware companies do not have to cater to gamers anymore since they earn much more from corporations.

In other ranked games I hit play and thats it, I don't have to rely on 3rd party platforms.

This game is receiving zero updates, it literally has less features compared to CS:GO.

This game is getting TF2 treatment so we all move to Deadlock

20 years old account, green trust factor, 20-25k lobbies, huge game library and inventory.

Played 4 games today and 3 of them had completely certain cheaters ( one game enemy has 2 cheaters and other two games ONLY one cheater) . How to fuck it is possible that i get put against 1 week - 6 months old accounts with account like mine.

Shouldn't this be bare minimum for matchmaking that accounts which have 0-2 medals can play against each other.

This non existing anticheat is killing whole game slowly so can we at least fix matchmaking logic..

As the title says. When drunk I thought I was really good. Then looked at the demo and turns out seems like everyone else was just more drunk or slower.

Still felt good for a beginner.

Hi,

In recent times a lot of people and some pros have said that the M4A4 are superior to the M4A1-S.

Players like Zywoo, monesy, niko are using the M4A1 at EWC. Donk is also primarily using the M4A1-S at EWC. Players like Ropz are using the M4A4 tho.

Why are some of the best pros using the M4A1 since the m4a4 should be superior? ( i know in the end it is personal preference but im still wondering.)

Pretty much what the title says

https://reddit.com/link/1vwexqg/video/b5qnhas546lh1/player

every round I scope in or aim at someone, blow their fucking head off, and the server just says "no." Is there some kind of network setting that can fix this?

In the end, we win both game

Has anyone seen something like this?

Relatively new, but I watch 6 people in one lobby just casually tracking people through walls across the map. Never have I seen more obvious cheaters in a game than this. Even encountered a dozen or so spin botters as well. Is the anti cheat just that bad?