Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is still free-to-play, but you’ll have to pay the piper if you want to play the game’s ranked modes Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Valve recently announced that free players will be restricted from earning XP, drops, or ranks due to free players “hurting the experience” of other players.
“Along with all the gameplay that we made available for free, new players had access to drops, Ranks, Skill Groups, and a free path to Prime matchmaking,” the blog post announcing the change reads in part. “Unfortunately, over time, those benefits have become an incentive for bad actors to hurt the experience of both new and existing players. So today we’re revising the offering for new players.”