Video: How has CS:GO changed your life?

18-11-2023 14:34

Pro players and talent talked about the profound impact the Valve shooter had on their lives.

When Counter-Strike: Global Offensive came out more than a decade ago, few could expect the competitive ecosystem the game was able to cultivate throughout its existence. What began as a simple first-person shooter grew into a global phenomenon that has given many people successful careers born out of passion.

As the era of CS:GO ended at IEM Sydney, HLTV spoke to several professional players and talent about CS:GO's impact on their lives.

Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen, Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov, Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov, Joakim "⁠jkaem⁠" Myrbostad, Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač, Janusz "⁠Snax⁠" Pogorzelski, Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer, Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski, Freya "⁠Freya⁠" Spiers, Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou, Russel "⁠Twistzz⁠" Van Dulken, David "⁠frozen⁠" Čerňanský, and Håkon "⁠hallzerk⁠" Fjærli all feature in the video and give their thoughts on the game's life-changing influence.

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cs2 changed my life for the worse

2023-11-18 14:35

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hahahahahaha

2023-11-18 14:40

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lmao nerds

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hahaha basically

2023-11-18 15:14

i want to skibidi toilet myself after every game

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without pain you cannot be happy

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2023-11-18 16:09

How?

2023-11-18 16:22

+100

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2023-11-20 14:28

Ffs

Tbh, I dont wanna imagine my life without CS. Everything I have like a house, company, apartment is because of CS and lots of friends that I've met on LAN's and im not even pro player..

2023-11-18 14:38

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What do you do if you don’t mind me asking?

2023-11-18 15:07

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Nothing e-sports related but "skins" allowed me to build something.

2023-11-18 15:28

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Were you smart enough to invest in skins in early days?

2023-11-18 18:14

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I bought alot of shit skins with 2014 stickers when people were saying "stickers dont add value". + i earned alot of money on trading +like 20k on betting. i didn't invest much cuz i was poor as fuck. I traded alot and earned alot of money on it.

2023-11-18 23:16

Nice. I only still have my ak redline with kato14 navi holo, hr holo and lgb stickers. I had all kinds of skins that were worthless back then but worth tons now. Glock fade, deagle blaze, awp lightning, bayo fade, m9 doppler etc. Would be sick to have predicted the kato14 stickers and stacked on them.

2023-11-19 01:22

It was a pure waste of time

2023-11-18 14:39

Lol

extremely rare objectiveuser W

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2023-11-18 16:26

banger article

For many it has ruined their lives completely

2023-11-18 14:43

Wasted too much time playing and watching it.

2023-11-18 14:44

Simply Counter-Strike.

2023-11-18 14:48

Dota and CSGO. They were waste of my time.

Wasted 6000 hours of my life. Earned some thousands thanks to cases and huge luck. I'd say it's 50/50.

man you're all about the numbers! :) I spent 3,100 hours on cs go and finally mustered up the balls and discipline to uninstall the game once cs2 came out. Now I have more time for myself and do more wholesome things. But I don't regret playing cs since 2002

2023-11-18 16:04

Wasted a lot of time but loved the game,played with some pros and it was good experiance.Sometimes u hate some game but after all u realise that u loved that game

2023-11-18 15:01

Twistzz: I was not doing so great at school. Why am I not surprised?

2023-11-18 15:02

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At the same time maniac has degree in brain surgery, what a gigachad.

2023-11-18 16:21

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nice, didn't know that

2023-11-18 16:59

he does not, #82

2023-11-18 20:10

Uh xd thank you

2023-11-19 02:00

Sounds like a load of bull

2023-11-18 18:18

a masters degree in psychology = degree in brain surgery? didn't know )) it would suit you to look people up on linkedin before u claim they have degrees they don't

2023-11-18 20:09

I remember somebody told it on some stream 7-8 years ago about maniac that he is Brain.Surgeon.And.He.Has.Degree probably in that field. It wasn't about psychology ofc, I wouldn't be surprised that much if it was so. But yeah you are right, liquidpedia checks out. It happens to me from time to time when I am wrong or even confusing facts from the past, but dude, it is ridiculous if I will factcheck once again everytime before I want to say something :D Just chill, you sound like you are offended.

2023-11-18 21:00

he had an abusive dad, so that's understandable

2023-11-18 18:28

for the worse for sure

Destroyed my social life but hey atleast i can tap the heads

2023-11-18 15:03

Love cs

2023-11-18 15:05

Me and a few mates would have done a lot better at school 😂 20 years ago now.

2023-11-18 15:06

It didn't

2023-11-18 15:18

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2023-11-18 15:20

i would just play fortnite if csgo wasnt better

2023-11-18 15:23

broke it

2023-11-18 15:31

made me lose my gf, my money, my friends but for all of that I've got so many good memories with screaming russian kids in my matches and interactions with miserable hltv users. Also asking the pro players who make a great living out of it doesn't seem like a good touch of the subject. What else do you expect to hear from them? Most of them wouldn't have a better career than a local store cashier if cs didn't exist. Yet you see them complain so much about everything.

2023-11-18 16:01

but hey now you hear these spoiled kids say all those great things so that's rly touching.

2023-11-18 16:06

Real

Ikr, its so stupid to see them complaining about schedules and shit. Like get a grip guys. There are ppl out there doing 2 jobs or working all their lives job they hate.

2023-11-18 18:21

Yeah,they should go and try to work in some normal job for month to see how it is in real world,and then be asked again if its so bad as pro player

2023-11-18 18:40

Really good point, same thing if you would ask some footballers who earn milions per month and normalny they would end will some shit job, surprise they will prise thing that make them rich celebrieties lol

2023-11-19 01:32

skill issue

2023-11-20 11:08

Pure waste of time, indeed Except the zombie mod I guess - was pretty fun and had a very positive community behind it [unlike more or less everything else]

2023-11-18 15:52

Honestly cs skins changed my life into much better. Literally 100x better. glhf!

Made some good money?

2023-11-18 18:20

I've quit my job a year ago and this is my only source of income, and yes i made a decent amount so far. Sometimes 5X, 6X better than the previously decent paid job. I am currently buying skins like a madman, and i think this is the best period to buy. Then just hold them for a while, they will only increase in value.

2023-11-18 23:10

CS changed my life for the better. Thank you based CSGO

2023-11-18 16:03

used to watch football as my "panem et circenses" switched to counter strike, cuz football became rather scripted show and became one of social institutes forcing globalist agenda, than actual a competitive game and guess what, counter strike goes the same way. but im glad that cs teams still pick players based on their skill, rather their skin color, eye type or any other type of bullshit that has zero relevance to actual game and i can only dream of CS eliminating its "scripted" component. but i guess it will also eliminate 80% of its income.

hltv schizoposting

2023-11-18 16:45

implying he's wrong

2023-11-18 17:31

globalist agenda? maybe hes right. every sport and cs being scripted? thats just malding bettor rambling

2023-11-18 22:25

oh yes, every match being scripted is definitely schizo rambling

2023-11-18 22:37

believe me or not, i cant stand any type of parasites in life in fact i pushed this my feeling to the limit, so i cant do any money earning activity that has no benefits for surrounding me people/society (i think betting is one of those "useless" activities, isnt it?). u may call me a loser, cuz i lose a lot of "opportunities", but in a long run its a winning strategy, even if i will not live when this moment happen. also, i cant even bear ppl who resell things for profit. and regarding betting companies, who are basically parasites^2, cuz they play on ppls weaknesses, i have one good old solution, but im not gona say it here. and no, not every sport or every cs match is scripted ofc. but from a neutral viewer, who just wants some pure rivalry as my "panem et circenses", i noticed too many weird games/tournaments happened lately in CS. and in football, when i used to watch it back in the day

2023-11-19 05:58

" i cant even bear ppl who resell things for profit." I think you hate 95%+ of the shops then lol

2023-11-19 10:09

Shit game hope dies 4ever

2023-11-18 17:13

although great friendships in the game in real life it made me even more asocial it became an addiction

2023-11-18 17:30

lost my hair and sanity

2023-11-18 18:19

For the worse, I've prioritised CS over life/school. I've lost a lot of years of progress due to "wanting to become a Pro Player" failed dream, posted negative HLTV rating over the maps I played on HLTV, never got past ESEA Advanced and in general just felt like wasted my 10 years of playing this game. I wish I never found CS and stayed focused on school and life, but in the end I cannot change the past. There were many good memories due to it, I lived in China for a while playing CS, managed to travel to a bunch of different countries - but as a whole it did slow my life down.

yeah lets ask the pro's who are getting paid 10k+ a month on how the game has impacted their life, sure to get a variety of responses

2023-11-18 19:52

It shortened my lifespan by 1 hour every time I hold an angle, but look away and get timing'd.

2023-11-18 20:21

it has ruined my life, and I still play it

2023-11-18 21:23

CS1.3 & 1.6 changed my life.. not GO lol

2023-11-18 21:27

you're a boomer like me bruv

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*ruined

2023-11-18 21:49

Couple thousands hrs wasted Couple thousands dollars lost in betting Couple thousands dollars spent on skins Couple thousands braincells lost So pretty good i think

2023-11-18 21:51

Fair trade for 'fun'

2023-11-18 23:54

Just make me waste money, my cs 1.6 never ask me an upgrade. Bad pc, bad mouse, bad monitor, bad keyboard

2023-11-18 22:28

Cs go gives me a lot of stress and trust issues. It's traumatizing everyday I play it feels like someone is hacking. Trying your best to win and grind everyday.

2023-11-19 03:52