To start with, Valve has made a big mistake with the free-to-play update. The game got full of cheaters (although I met none), people with no understanding of this game even if in high ranks, and last but not least smurfs are way more often seem nowadays than back in the days since the game is free to play and you don't have to pay for it on each account. I am bitterly disappointed with this classic, and as a game designer, I have to say that for such a long period, this game hasn't changed at all. Little adjustments, minor bug fixes with each update, but nothing game-changing. The VAC system doesn't work, the graphics are as if we still live in 2015 and all that Valve cares about is their skins - the blueprints of money-making. The game is poorly developed, the matchmaking is terrible. You win 10, you lose 10. Competitive bans are worthless. Get banned for 30 minutes for that you left the game and led your team to defeat? I am sorry but this is unfair and stupid. From every 3 games, at least in 1, there is a player who left it for no reason ( not to mention ranks below dmg; there is a nightmare). This game only brings anxiety to players who just want to get to Global Elite and play a 30-40 minute game with other good players, nobody wants to lose because of trolling teammates or of someone being AFK or whatever. If you gotta lose, lose because the other team was better, not because someone has given up, decided to be toxic, and ruin the communication in-game or for someone who left for no actual reason. As a CS player from CS 1.6, to CS Source, to CS: GO, I think Valve messed up with this one. As a CS player with more than 10,000 hours on all of Counter-Strike, I seriously retire from this game because it is no more. I am tired of having a headache after I've decided just to sit and play a game to relax - because this is what games are for. But instead, after a hard day at work or school, you sit in front of your monitor and say to yourself "I want to play a game". You are happy, hyped and when you enter a match the real nightmare begins. You start getting angry, toxic (not only for others but yourself because 1 game turns into 10 and you can't even stop just because of anger and hatred). This was one of the most successful games back in the days, but unfortunately, as rumors say: "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is dead" and I am also on that opinion. With tears in my eyes, the words I have used in this review speak the truth, and so do I. This is the truth about a legendary game that was led to destruction by it's developers.