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This is from 2020. Valve wanted to be smart and invented a new "subtick" system in 2023 which isn't as good as 128 tick. To make things worse, CS is a paid game, not free like Valorant, and makes probably much more money. They seemingly just don't care enough about the problem to solve it correctly. That or there is more work to be done on subtick to make it work better than 128.

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Nowadays Counter Strike 2 is free to play, although a paid prime upgrade is almost required if you want to play decent matches with less cheaters. FACEIT requires prime status too.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4D81-BB44-4F5C-9B...

CSGO could do 128 tick, Valve just doesn't want to pay for it, but you can easily find private hosted servers with 128 tick. Riot did put in a lot of work to get it down so much though.

With the CS2 update, CS can no longer do 128 tick, even on private hosted servers.

> CS is a paid game, not free like Valorant, and makes probably much more money

(Veering offtopic here) Remember that Valve invented the free-to-play business model when they made TF2 free. As Gabe Newell said in some interview long ago, they made more money from TF2 after it went F2P ("sell more hats!")

Point being, being a paid vs free game is largely irrelevant to the profitability & engineering budget.

That said, I'm not sure why you say CS is a paid game. It is also free-to-play. Is some playable content locked behind a paywall?

CS hasn’t been a paid game since it was a mod for HL back when you needed cd-key for online, which predates Steam.

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