i get nothing lasts forever, but the way valve killed every single community on cs overnight is just seriously so fucking heartbreaking i miss these people so much and miss jumping on stupid blocks and shooting the shit every day no video game will ever fill this void for me - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

coyotes.bsky.social • 92 days ago

i get nothing lasts forever, but the way valve killed every single community on cs overnight is just seriously so fucking heartbreaking

i miss these people so much and miss jumping on stupid blocks and shooting the shit every day

no video game will ever fill this void for me

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i played a game with some friends i used to bhop with for years and after i got off the discord call, i’ve been crying for 20 minutes over how much i miss bhop and the community we had and everything

3,500 hours of my life was spent with those people having so much fun

shit breaks my heart :(

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wish-dragon.bsky.social•92 days ago

Why would the communities not persist through discord and other external platforms? It may no longer be CSGO but I figure it’s not as though other bhop projects don’t exist either, it really sucks it happened this way but I’m curious why it would be such an unrecoverable blow

doggetto.bsky.social•92 days ago

it just happens sometimes, hard to articulate exactly how

there used to be a version of halo 3 multiplayer on PC called Eldewrito, i had some of the best gaming moments of my life on that, it absolutely did not translate when it was taken offline because of the MCC releasing on PC

(it's back tho)

coyotes.bsky.social•92 days ago

even when just servers would die, it would kill a community p much

cs2 is unplayable for bhop so it’s dead in that sense too, and cs:s already has its established communities (i will probs start playing source)- it’s hard to explain but i think it’s also a matter of everyone getting a life lol

coyotes.bsky.social•92 days ago

these people are married and have kids now and stuff like lmao. some are in jail. some are dead. it’s crazy

things are just never going to be the same for many different reasons, i guess i just miss the old days

wish-dragon.bsky.social•92 days ago

I mean, sounds like it was sort of gonna head there eventually, the older a community gets the more it tends towards that, but the problems with CS definitely expedited it

jankanpo.net•92 days ago

did valve give cs the tf2 treatment and made it so you can only random queue into the normal gamemode or something

coyotes.bsky.social•92 days ago

well cs2 being a whole new engine means every map and plugin and everything that was established in the past decade+ needs to be redone

on top of that, they completely killed csgo to the point there’s no server browser anymore, my friend said once cs2 dropped the player count went down to 1/10th

coyotes.bsky.social•92 days ago

many people are also unaware on how to access the beta branch and get into GO, so that’s another thing :(

the tickrate on cs2 is completely locked to 64 too, btw 🥴 so most bhop maps are impossible because they were designed for 100 or 128t

jankanpo.net•92 days ago

valve hating all of their own game communities once again

frostburnt.bsky.social•92 days ago

I feel like they need more people, and in dedicated teams.. like they could super easily afford it..

It's kinda whack that they're one of the smaller AAA studios, while doing their own engine work, hardware, store, games..

I don't think it's malicious, but they've really set themselves up..

frostburnt.bsky.social•92 days ago

.. for it

coyotes.bsky.social•92 days ago

they would rather hire people that fit in their clique of 50 year old white men & pay them to sit around doing nothing all day

frostburnt.bsky.social•92 days ago

I think even if that's not the case, the lack of a structure doesn't really help.

They could definitely benefit from hiring different kinds of people tho.

Esp those working on fan projects, they'd likely be more dedicated to one thing than hopping to a shiny new one constantly

coyotes.bsky.social•92 days ago

honestly, valve has one of the strongest communities of gamers and developers backing their games

theres like 10000 different hyper autistic people obsessed with the source engine and valve games that they could hire that would fix everything but they choose not to lmao

frostburnt.bsky.social•92 days ago

Yeah it's really baffling, especially when you consider how most of their franchises started out as mods...

So there's zero chance they can be unaware of it.. and with the way they print money, they wouldn't even feel it if they hired a few large teams from there

jolynegcoyote.bsky.social•92 days ago

Doorstucker pouring out for all the genuine dick suckers

snowmeow.bsky.social•92 days ago

I'm thankful that surf is still pretty active on Source. I dunno if bhop is, but I'd hope so.

gaynplay.bsky.social•92 days ago

I know how you feel, been through this too many damn times with too many damn games by now. DS2 pvp community got taken over by nazis, splitgate devs who I hung out with and played matches with during their very first playtest went insane and shut down their game to turn it into every other shooter.

gaynplay.bsky.social•92 days ago

now a friend runs an anti-being-a-fucking-asshole-and-or-a-nazi DS2 pvp discord server and I rekindle that vibe a couple time s a year with them doing FFAs in brightstone cove. Half the people who were assholes then are cool and trans now, wild to see that transformation across so many people.