An Open Letter to Valve: Please Nerf the Negev

This group urges CS:GO players to put down their foot with Valve. If you, too, would like the Negev to be nerfed, please join the group and help spread the word. I ask everyone to join me in focusing solely on buying the Negev during competitive games to show Valve that it's broken, not fun, and needs to be nerfed. Below is a message to Valve.

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Valve,

In CS:GO, the Negev is generally considered to be a useless weapon compared to the AK-47, M4A4/M4A1-S, and the AWP. But as it has been buffed by Valve and had its price reduced down to only $1700, the Negev has become an unstoppable killing machine.

Doing 99 damage to the head against an armored opponent at close range combined with a rate of fire of 800 rounds per minute, enemies stand no chance when they suddenly find themselves thrust into the line of Negev fire, and when I say line, I mean it. A short amount of time after the initial shot transforms the Negev from spray and pray, to sigh and die: the Negev sends a constant stream of bullets in a consistent path, making it easy to shred and be shredded. A competent T player stands no chance against a semi-competent CT player utilizing a Negev. If an entire team were to buy Negevs and hold all entries into a site, there might as well be a wall preventing Terrorists from making plays. On the other side, the Negev is still surprisingly effective against unsuspecting CT's. The slow movement speed is easily countered by having a pistol out, and the time it takes to switch to the Negev and start firing is maybe a second. So if you know where to pre-aim as I do, you can peek angles and kill a CT before they even know it was a Negev that did it to them.

All of this combined with the fact that the Negev only costs $1700, you can easily buy one just about every round of the game. Using solely the Negev, my friend and I have consistently been top fragging and achieving 30 kill games.