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The Major started yesterday...challenger stage to find the 8 teams joining the returning legends. Kind of snuck up.

Upsets galore so far...the 2 teams with most votes to go 0-3 have already won a map (DreamEaters and Syman) and the team with most picks to go 3-0 (Vitality) have already lost a map.

RIP pickems :p
 
Anyone else doing the pick'em challenge? I scraped through the last round (6/9) and the next round is looking even harder :confused: Pretty stacked top 16 - having trouble picking who to leave out.
 
jvrs said:
Valve, but they are for some reason keeping their pie holes shut
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I wonder what Valve considers as an active account on Steam? They had so many account bans since December, which isn’t completely VAC and game ban inclusive, that they can hardly brag with these numbers anymore.

Seeing that they had more than 400,000 bans in August. Going through the latest cheats, many cheats are still active without any revisioning whatsoever. I don’t know how much machine learning is contributing to VACnet since I haven’t received a single ban notice in months. The last time I have been prompted with an Overwatch ban note it was prior to F2P.

Anyhow, seeing Valve brag these numbers back in 2015,

https://kotaku.com/there-are-over-125-million-steam-accounts-1687820875

https://kotaku.com/there-are-over-125-million-steam-accounts-1687820875
There Are Over 125 Million "Active" Steam Accounts

Valve announced today that there are now over 125 million active Steam accounts. It's a marketing brag, yeah, but it's also a figure worth looking at.
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and these more recently,

https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-now-has-90-million-monthly-users/

Steam now has 90 million monthly users

And about 47 million users every day.
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which is a sharp drop in 4 years, how many ‘active’ accounts are cheater accounts? I’m not talking about alt. and bot accounts.

Watching some pro games, these pro's makes some casual-comp local players look like CS gods.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I wonder what Valve considers as an active account on Steam? They had so many account bans since December, which isn’t completely VAC and game ban inclusive, that they can hardly brag with these numbers anymore.

Watching some pro games, these pro's makes some casual-comp local players look like CS gods.
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Ever since they went f2p things got really bad. I've been losing my schit lately online, like really negative vibes from me. Maybe I should just quit playing.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I wonder what Valve considers as an active account on Steam? They had so many account bans since December, which isn’t completely VAC and game ban inclusive, that they can hardly brag with these numbers anymore.

Seeing that they had more than 400,000 bans in August. Going through the latest cheats, many cheats are still active without any revisioning whatsoever. I don’t know how much machine learning is contributing to VACnet since I haven’t received a single ban notice in months. The last time I have been prompted with an Overwatch ban note it was prior to F2P.
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You only get that notification if the person you reported made it to Overwatch and then the overwatchers agreed it was cheating.

They don't get banned if they're better than you :p
 
Another 6/9 for the Legends stage :thumbsup:

The Major looks pretty open...everyone was expecting Liquid to dominate like Astralis did in Katowice but they've been shaky. NRG and Vitality have looked nuts in some games, dodgy in others and Astralis are a bit off their best.

Wouldn't be surprised if there's a shock winner - Gambit and Cloud9-style.
 
Neoprod said:
You only get that notification if the person you reported made it to Overwatch and then the overwatchers agreed it was cheating.

They don't get banned if they're better than you :p
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You are right. I should also learn those new, and unique, homing spray patterns. I have again spectated the absolute worst. No recoil, no aim, headshot king, and cheaters call this legit hacking.

Either this person hacked, or he sent and received lucky packets.

I am not saying that everyone is hacking, but there are players who have been avoiding the banhammer since whenever, and since F2P they now have the opportunity to test their hacks to the 'optimal' limit.
 
Those who have purchased their Glorious Model O’s, have you received them?

The O- is launching on the 5th and according to Glorious PC Gaming Race the O- will be in stock with their global retail partners by mid-September. This with notice, that you should buy quickly because the Model O is currently on backorder (which is not exactly what they said a month ago on Reddit, but maybe things have changed).
 
Fulcrum29 said:
Those who have purchased their Glorious Model O’s, have you received them?

The O- is launching on the 5th and according to Glorious PC Gaming Race the O- will be in stock with their global retail partners by mid-September. This with notice, that you should buy quickly because the Model O is currently on backorder (which is not exactly what they said a month ago on Reddit, but maybe things have changed).
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2nd week of October...
 
Soul Assassin said:
2nd week of October...
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The Model O- is and the reviews are looking good. Glad that I have waited, but I am ordering in January. Just want to see what is new then and where the revisioning will be with the Glorious models. I see some people are still complaining about poorly build units which may have been O batches 1-3.

According to the RJN review, the O- seems to have no noticeable build quality issues.
 
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