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Ranked Matchmaking Will No Longer Be Free In CSGO – Kotaku Australia
Cheating in CSGO has gotten so bad that Valve has banned free-to-play accounts from ranked matchmaking, locking the service behind a paywall.
A core staple of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive experience, even after the game went free-to-play, was access to ranked matchmaking. Climbing your way out of ELO hell is a fundamental part of CSGO because it’s a competitive shooter at its heart, and people enjoy the thrill of competition. But in today’s latest update, if you want to have access to ranked matchmaking, you’ll have to pay.
Developers Valve announced the change via a blog post, saying CSGO would be introducing “unranked matchmaking”…
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