Seriously? I started in Beta 3 and played often enough until 2005 or 6 before I lost interest in the game. I took it up again about 3 years ago then dropped it for CoD4.


You want to know why it's dying?

When was the last time someone in CS came up to me and said, "Eh? Want to play some CS? For fun only la..."

Never.

When was the last time someone is CS came up to me and said, "Don't worry about competitions. That's only if you're interested to go hardcore."

Never.

When was the last time someone in CS came up to me and said, "I think you have potential to play competitively, if you put in some effort and push for it you'll go places."

Never.

With that kind of elitist attitude community, how the hell does anyone expect the game to grow. Seriously. And I know what it's like to play competitively, 12 hours a day every day for 6 months. I threw away 2 years of my life playing the game back in school.

If the people who played CS, spent a little more time encouraging people and supporting, maybe CS wouldn't be bleeding itself out right now. Is there time to repair it? I don't know that's up to the guys who take it seriously. I take CoD4 seriously, it's part of MY life. So i make sure that when i see someone start and score 0-20 i walk up to them and say, "Don't worry, when i started, mine was 0-30." Just a little more effort does wonders. Be helpful and feed them all the basics even if he's not going to amount to anything, because that feeder may feed the game to other people and so on, and that's how a community grows.

Cheers people.