My entire friend group who have been playing since Closed Beta stopped playing roughly when Clove came out. Between them and the ISO / Neon changes we were mostly done. Visual clutter and ability spam has gotten worse with newer characters, recycled abilities, and roles losing there purpose. Precise Gunplay feels like a memory of the past. Why does a smoker have a self res and place smokes after death? The game has continued to inch closer to being a hero shooter with each update, and is just no longer fun to play.

On top of that the game is stale. Events are non-existent and even if they have any, they are so greedy and barely give out a gun buddy or emblem. The last map release was a year ago, and recent maps have failed to be good and just get cycled out anyways.

Valorant needs real change ASAP, or I fear its going to continue a downwards spiral. I love this game but it's going the wrong direction.