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Comment by muse900 | Hacker News Reader

Where is Valve... cs:go is the most toxic game i've ever played... and its one of those games which has no support team behind it, once you report something noone from the company gets to see your report... The amount of racist names etc that goes unpunished in there is unbelievable.

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Valve have traditionally taken a hands-off approach to the communities surrounding its games; I would be surprised to see their name among the list and I like how they do things currently. Though I have experienced toxicity in CS:GO, it has been no worse than in other competitive games.

It was better when people hosting their own servers was the focus (CS:S and CS1.6). This way you could find a nice community, with good moderators and rules that you liked, and settle in.

Nowadays you are just thrown in a blender with every other player.

That's exactly my feeling as well, a less-friendly player base is one of the unintended consequences of matchmaking

Also a game where voice chat is required and muting someone means you'll have no information from that person.

Your name in cs:go is always your steam name. Shouldn't even need a specific support team for a game to find those (if anything, that makes it worse, though).

very true, how many names and pornographic images are out there is beyond me, although this game is not rated 18+ since there are so many profile images with pornographic environment.

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