"CS2 is rubbish": Neymar Jr voices frustration over hackers, community reacts
CS2 is not doing well in the eyes of soccer star Neymar Jr. The game currently has multiple issues, the biggest of which is the presence of cheaters on its servers. Valve Anti-Cheat or VAC has banned millions of accounts for cheating this year. Over the last few months, 15% of the Counter-Strike 2 community was reportedly hit by ban waves.
Unfortunately, hackers still exist in CS2 and have been causing a lot of problems, with Neymar Jr. encountering some of them. The Brazilian took to X to voice his frustration about the state of the game:
"Cs2 is rubbish… a lot of Hack"
(Note: The post has been translated using Google Translate)
Popular internet personality Jake Lucky reposted Neymar's comment along with the translation, noting how even the iconic soccer star was fed up with Counter-Strike 2. Soon, many X users reacted to it.
@tweetsofWIZARD pointed out that Counter-Strike 2 and its community would collapse if the game's only demographic is cheaters:
"Gaming will collapse if their only demographic remaining is nefarious cheaters and new players."
User @Sahil62865490 seemed fully surprised that fans now had Neymar Jr. complaining about the state of CS2 before the release of Grand Theft Auto 6. The latter has been in the works for over ten years now without an actual release date.
Meanwhile, @ArmedNReady24 stated that it isn't just Counter-Strike 2 that is facing such problems. They claimed that online multiplayer modes in every game are having a rough time:
"Online multiplayer is just COOKEd. Cheating is rampant in just about every game."
X user @davoLiguista simply said Riot Games' Valorant is better than Valve's iconic shooter:
"Valorant > csh*t2"
Meanwhile, @JustFoges suggested that Neymar must be new to the Counter-Strike franchise if he is still surprised by the number of cheaters in a game from the series.
Neymar's concern about CS2 is valid
Neymar Jr. isn't the first person to complain about the state of CS2. Fans have been urging Valve to look into the issue for a while now, and the developer has been trying to fix the problem as well.
It initially seemed as if VAC Live was not functional. However, ban waves soon started removing players from games laden with cheaters. Several matches were canceled and hundreds of thousands of players were wiped out of the many servers worldwide.
VAC Live is still working, and cheaters are still getting banned. However, Counter-Strike 2 is far from perfect, and more needs to be done to fix the hacker issue for good.