weenus

People still play these games because Counter-Strike will always be more competitively sound than the Michael Bay "style over substance" FPS games released in the past five years. Anyone who even tries to compare kill streak call in's to one of the most competitively balanced systems in an FPS game (CS' Money system) should have their head pulled off for being too dumb to live.

@CookieMillz is waiting to fanboy out for Blizzard or EA some more. Terrible.

No one else noticed this is the "boobies!" obsessed kid from Role Models yet?

Not surprisingly, the genius gamers on Joystiq are hating on people for being good at a game they enjoy and playing it competitively.

= Gock Hand 2 World Tour

That's a blanket statement and it's wildly incorrect. Any competitive event can be looked at with that same ignorance, ESC. I could say the same thing about magic from the outside looking in. If you watch the top tier of Counter-Strike competition, you'll see new tricks put into play the same way you would watching M:TG competitively. There is nothing you can do by playing on public servers in Counter-Strike to ever become a shade of the player that the Pro's are. Plenty of people have tried to make that argument and failed miserably.

By the way, Directv has a televised competitive gaming league that is doing well, both in the US and in global regions.

www.thecgs.com

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