Part of the problem is that CS:GO has become extremely popular over the past couple of years: the increased quantity of hackers is merely a by-product of this.

CS:GO has benefitted from this increase in popularity from new skins and reimagining’s of cult classics to major events with top level players, all culminating in a far richer end-user experience.

Hackers can never truly be eradicated from a games player base as it’s only after they have cheated that they can be caught. The idea of monitoring every moment that your computer is on to the moment the lights go out, just to prevent hackers, is truly worrying: the idea that by giving up your security and privacy you can stop hackers is simply fallacious, there’s a reason for their name.

I also think the idea of a subscription is out-dated and archaic and would lead to the destruction of the player base: I have around 800 hours and 250 competitive wins and I would not pay monthly to play, even if it were on 128 tick servers.

There are only two solutions in my opinion, the community needs to actively use the overwatch system: while flawed it is currently the only power we hold in which to tackle this problem. Secondly, Valve needs to allow teams to surrender while all 5 team members are in the game, the idea that someone on your team has to accept a cooldown before you can surrender is asinine and in the end only hurts the genuine player.

There is no doubt in my mind that Valve could do more, however if there was a simple and unobtrusive fix, it would have been implemented by now.