One streamer falls off her chair just as she is about to erupt in rage, ending her rage in a fit of laughter.
Most gamers are guilty of becoming enraged while playing a game. Players are more likely to smash keyboards and throw controllers over the possibility of losing their digital rank in competitive games, whether they are shooters, MOBAs, fighting games, or anything else. Sometimes the rage stems from misplays or bad teammates, while other times a glitch or bug in the game can almost result in a loss, resulting in unmatched rage, such as when Trainwrecks nearly lost an intense Call of Duty: Warzone game after becoming stuck in a tree.
One of the most popular competitive games of all time is Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was first released in 2012, pits five-person teams against one another in order to complete various goals or prevent the other team from completing said goals. There’s no denying that Valve’s Major Championships, which can have prize pools worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, entice competitive CS:GO players. Despite Valve’s decision to postpone this year’s CS:GO Majors, the eventual PGL Major Stockholm 2021 had a prize pool of $2 million USD.
Even when no large sums of money are at stake, things can get pretty intense when playing CS:GO, as Twitch streamer d3nn1tsa discovered a few days ago while playing the game. During the video, the streamer can be seen lunging at their monitor and starting what appears to be a rage-inducing rant, before leaning back and falling off the chair. Majority of her viewers are concerned at first when she appears to cry, but a moment later they can be heard laughing it off.
Rage isn’t the only factor that can affect a player’s enjoyment of the game in CS:GO. Since the game’s release, hackers and cheaters have plagued CS:GO servers, and despite Valve’s efforts to combat this, such as the Overwatch system, which allows players to review games where cheaters may have been present, the problem persists.
One clever Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player created a fake cheat that sabotages cheaters’ games, but most players don’t have the time to write such a script.
However, the rage of the streamer isn’t all bad, and sometimes good can come from broken keyboards, controllers, and, in this case, falling out of chairs. Most of the time, rage can make others laugh, but there is money to be made from rage on occasion. In January of this year, Doom creator John Romero sold his keyboard, which he broke while raging at Quake, to the highest bidder.
