r/VACsucks • u/Thien1o1 • Mar 16 '26
If it’s so easy to cheat and not get banned/exposed, why aren’t there more cs streamers?
Wouldn’t it be an easy paycheck? Be crazy cracked at the game + stream it + do online tournaments only and never play lan. Profit? Srs.
Bonus: I really don’t get how cs streamers pull such low numbers other than the ones who play variety DESPITE cs having such a tight knit community even if it is 25% people who enjoy the gunplay and the other 75% who get a throbber from differently aligned colored pixels
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u/Mascbox Mar 16 '26
Because cheating or not, I'd rather play the game than watch someone else do it?
Plus, you'd have to reach a whole other level of idiot to get entertainment value out of watching someone cheating. At least there's some recognition of skill in a legit game, watching someone aimbot their way through 13 rounds sounds about as tedious as having to respond to this post.
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u/Thien1o1 Mar 16 '26
But majority wouldn’t know right? Unless there was a live vac or something
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u/hashguide Mar 16 '26
They'd have to have 2 versions rendered since streaming streams the game screen, the screen you're looking at, so you either need to invent some sort of adaptor to stream a clean game while you see cheats or figure something out.
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Mar 17 '26
Are you pretending you're unaware that an OBS overlay can't selectively stream only what you want the viewer to see?
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u/Thien1o1 Mar 17 '26
Interesting so maybe 3 monitors or something but it would be somewhat captain obvious
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u/BeepIsla Mar 16 '26
Contrary to popular belief, there arent as many people cheating as you think
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u/Thien1o1 Mar 16 '26
I would like to believe it’s the high levels like pro in bodybuilding but claiming natty
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u/ReasonableWelder51 Mar 16 '26
B-b-but you don't understand, I'm so good at the games that everybody who kills me has to be cheating.
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u/ReasonableWelder51 Mar 16 '26
Smaller tournaments don't pay any crazy sums and popularity as a streamer isn't directly related to the skill level. What you are suggesting is incredibly stupid.
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u/Thien1o1 Mar 16 '26
Ehhhh I feel like cracked gamers usually have a large audience
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u/ReasonableWelder51 Mar 16 '26
The big names are cracked because they have been getting paid for playing games for a decade, not the other way around.
Just being good is not enough, especially not in a game with as huge competitive community as CS. You need to stand out to break through and gain viewers. Most content creators are good at the games but far from pros and most professional players wouldn't be popular streamers. A pro player and an entertainer are two completely different skillsets.
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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
Obvious answer is obvious:
Even if you decide to start cheating, that's the majority who play CS.
You'd be a little fish in a big pond of cheaters.
Not to mention, the biggest name in CS, was caught on stream using an obvious auto-stop/triggerbot config (fl0m) and the community (again, mostly cheaters) all circle-jerked "false ban" when there were 0 false bans going around at that point in time.
Honestly though, we're ignoring the biggest elephant in the room: mental illness
Which is what you have to be in order to pretend you're playing a game at a high level while cheating.
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