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Counter-Strike has changed a lot over the years. Who better to show us how it's changed other than Valve and the original creators themselves, Jess Cliffe and Ming Le. These two, along with other notable Counter-Strike personalities takes us back through the many years the game has been around.Counter-Strike started as a mod for Half-Life in 1999. Today, it has evolved into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and has become one of the most popular games and esports in the world. This piece, made for the ELEAGUE Major in Atlanta, gives a behind-the-scenes look at how the game went from its earliest days to today.
Nice to see CSNation in the video
Even Counter-Strike Radio relied on CS-Nation for their news, as has Survivor League relied on CS-Nation for promotion (those @$$holes couldn't afford decent servers, so I was disqualified for being unable to connect due to timeout, despite being on a cable connection and having no issues with any other public server; needless to say they shut down from lack of resources/sponsors to run an online prize competition).
Heck CS-Nation was my go to site for coverage on the Cyberathlete Professional League (I think CAL was also covered, but I didn't care much for that). Then there's the mailbag column with Arctic Joe. Never did find out who wrote those, but it feels kind of nice knowing my question was answered in the final mailbag (which was ironically intended to be the mailbag's revival).
Honestly, rizzuh and Zips deserve a spot in that video, if they're going to interview commentators in a brief history video. Just a 10 second audio-only cameo would suffice if video isn't an option (camera not fancy enough, or requires flight to a studio).
Plus I don't like esports. A number of shitty experiences with "pro" players over the years while with CS-Nation made sure of that. Bunch of so-called skilled players were the loudest most troublesome posters any time something was changed that they had to learn to adjust to.