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The CSGO community is very mixed. Sometimes you can meet very nice people and sometimes you can meet the scum of the earth. The game it self should be rated 10 and up because the blood isnt that strong, but I think the reason the game is rated 17+ is because of the sometimes incredibly toxic community. If you are a kid and sound young DO NOT use your mic. I learned this that hard way when I was 11. I dont think anyone under 12 should play csgo unless they have everyone on mute by default, there will be more F-bombs dropped than the amount of bullets shot. Even though this may make it seem like the csgo community is evil, there are still some really good things that come out of it. Here i will show you some of the cool things the CSGO community has done, as well as some of the bad stuff.
CSGO is very open source and you can mod any aspect of the game. This allows for the creation of community maps and servers. A community map is a map that is made by someone other than Valve (the company behind csgo). These maps can range from fun maps to play with your friend, to extremely useful warmup/practice maps. Community maps can be downloaded through the Steam Workshop. Community servers are pretty self explanetory, they are servers hosted by anyone who isnt Valve. These servers can be about almost anything like 1v1 servers and Deathmatch servers to warmup on. These servers ussually have a lot more people with mics because community servers are ussually played by more experienced players.
If you ever have a problem with your game or you have a question, you can almost always rely on the community guides and forums. There are hundreds of thousands of pages of Counter-Strike forums that can answer any question and solve an problem. This means that even if you are a new player, you will always find the solution to your problem or the answer to your question. There are also community guides for things about the game itself. You can use these guides to get better at the game or solve any problems you may have.
If you go on youtube and search up "csgo" you will get millions of search results. There are so many CSGo youtube channels that make tons of csgo related content every day. These videos can be: covering updates, covering pro games, gameplay, funny moments, gambling, and clips. If you decide to join the csgo community you will never run out of content on youtube. You can also find many video guides as well.
In CSGO there are things called "skins". Skins are decals for weapon skins that have monetary value. One way you can obtain skins is by opening cases. You can get case drops in game for free, but opening the case requires a "key" which costs $2.50. When you open a case, 80% of the time you will get a skin worth less than 10 cents, 15% of the time you will still loose money but not as much, 4.9% of the time you will break even, and 0.1% of the time you will make massive profit. You have a chance at getting skins worth thousands of dollars from a case. This idea of cases and skins is called "lootbox" by the gaming industry. Its basically a way to get kids and some adults helplessly addicted to gambling. These cases are very addictive because they use the near miss effect. For an example of this you can watch this video (language warning). This effect is used in many casino's and its made to addict. Most of the player base is over 16 or 17 but some of them are still young. I have seen many kids that spend all theie money on cases anly to get nothing. I was lucky that I had no money when I started playing because I KNOW that I would have opened some cases.
There is also external CSGO gaambling online. I'm not going to explain the details of how this works because it will take an essay to write out, but basically external CSGO gambling is using skins as casino chips. This industry was very big in 2016 and it had no age moderation so a lot of kids were being sucked into it. But I think the industry would have been fine if just one thing didn't happen.
In 2016, a youtuber and streamer by the name of PhantomL0rd started promoting a gambling site on his youtube and twitch. Streamers promoting csgo gambling sites was normal at the time becuase of the massive amounts of money that was give in each promotion. In his videos, PhantomL0rd showed him self betting massive sums of money and always winning. In fact, he almost never lost his big bets. As you could probably guess, the webiste was rigged and it was partially owned by PhantomL0rd. He promoted a rigged gambling website to many of his viewers which includes a large amount of kids. This scandal blew up on the internet and gave CSGO a really bad name. This probably one of the worst thing that happened to CSGO. Here is a video with the detailed explanation on what happened.
Im not going to go too much into to detail about what happened to McSkillet because of how dark it is. McSkillet was a csgo youtuber who was 16 when he made it big on youtube. He was pulling millions of views and he was loved by the whole community. He made video related on skins and he amassed a huge collection of expensive skins worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The thing he did that ruined his life was deciding to create a gambling site. He was only 17 at the time so it was technically illegal but he did it anyway. Unlike other youtubers who made their own gambling site, McSkillet's site was 100% legitimate. His gambling site was a big success and he began making insane amounts of money for a 17 year old. Just a few months after Valve started to send cease and dessist letters to gambling sites because they werent following their TOS. McSkillets site was one of these and he lost the thing he had been working on for along time. To make things worse, Valve reverse IP tracked his steam account and banned it. This meant that McSKillet lost all of his skins that he had spent many years collecting. This and a few other things eventually led to his death. He died while going over 100 mph on the wrong side of the freeway and crashing into another car. He and 2 others were killed.
My experience with the community is pretty mixed. There are a lot of idiots, but there are also a lot of cool people. I still play with some people I met years ago in game, and they are some of my closest friends.
Sometimes the it's better to just mute the voicechat because sometimes it can decend into complete chaos. That video was mostly just fun, but it can sometimes be really toxic. I also find it really fun to just join a community server and just listen to some of the stories people share about their life. Since the age demographic is so wide, I have heard from people that were 9 to people that were retired.