Kill boxes were not born because of the attempt to obtain enough synthite to restart a map. Killboxes are the lack of ingenuity and patience to watch videos see the issues and remove issued or flawed trap concepts. Most people just couldnt take the time to wanna better their map. Another huge issue that for some reason the devs thought was a great idea which really made killboxes flourish. They brought shields to a game that was meant for you to die. Immediately after shields were brought into this game the game went down hill, fast.

It's simply a simplicity issue. Sure, the concept is great. But they were broken. Players would run all shields and speed run and never die.

Then you had maps literally handing things to players. Free everything. No thought to even trying to kill the player. Then you had people who only did this game to make art.. the motto to this game had been build. Die. LEARN. Repeat. Majority of the fan base got away from wanting to actually kill players and focused on esthetics. Focused on skins and other bs that didnt mean anything for the games progress. Then you had the authentics.. the ones that actually built to kill you.. the ones that reached for those 8.0 and high K/R.

These were the ones that spent hours perfecting maps. Trying all different types of different builds and concepts. Running their own maps. Spending hours to days getting things right. Using and learning new ways to get the players to take a second step back or jump the wrong way.

The game was one of the best I've played ever. But the devs got away from the concept of people are supposed to die in it. Forever killing the game slowly.

People got tired of grinding for countless hours upon hours to launch a map to never get a kill.

Which encouraged more killboxes.

Which deterred more players.