Raging while playing a game is something most gamers are guilty of. When it comes to competitive games especially, whether it be shooters, MOBAs, fighting games or anything else, players are more likely to smash keyboards, and throw controllers over the possibility of losing their digital rank. Sometimes, the rage spawns from misplays, or bad teammates, while at other times a glitch or bug in the game itself can almost cause a loss, and produce rage unmatched, like when Trainwrecks nearly lost an intense Call of Duty: Warzone game after being stuck in a tree.
Counter Strike: Global Offensive or CS:GO is one of the most popular competitive titles of all time. Initially released in 2012, CS:GO involves teams of five pitted against each other to complete various goals, or stop the other team from completing said goals. With Major Championships hosted by Valve, that can have hundreds of thousands of dollars in their prize pools, there's certainly a draw for competitive CS:GO players. Though Valve pushed this year's CS:GO Majors back to a later date, the evenutal PGL Major Stockholm 2021 had a prize pool of a whopping $2 million USD.
Even without huge sums of money on the line, things can get pretty intense when playing CS:GO, as Twitch streamer d3nn1tsa found out while playing the game a couple of days ago. During the clip, the streamer can be seen lunging towards their monitor, and beginning what was undoubtedly about to be a rage-induced rant, when they then lean back falling off the chair. At first, viewers were worried as d3nn1tsa appears to cry, yet a moment later they can be heard laughing the whole thing off.
Rage is not the only thing that has been known to influence a CS:GO player's enjoyment of the game. Hackers or cheaters have plagued CS:GO servers ever since it was released, and though there have been elements to combat this by Valve, including the Overwatch system which allows players to review games where cheaters may have been playing, the problem persists. One clever CS:GO player managed to develop a fake cheat that sabotages cheaters' games, but most players cannot spend the time to create such a script.
Gamer rage isn't all that bad though, and good things can even come from broken keyboards, controllers, and as in this case, falling from chairs. Most of the time rage can give others a good laugh, but on occasion there's some money to be made from rage. Doom creator John Romero sold his keyboard, which he broke while raging at Quake to the highest bidder in January of this year.
Counter Strike: Global Offensive is available now on PC.