The creators of this petition

The creators of this anonym petition are individuals all being citizens of European Union member states countries. This petition was created, because these few individuals who started the petition and share the same positive opinion on the changes proposed in this petition, consulted with other gamers and gaming sites associated with CS:GO (Counter Strike:Global Offensive, in the following the shortened version of CS:GO is used) via online communication platforms, and felt the grand majority of the gaming community shared their opinion. Therefore, this petition was created in order to raise these question to the whole CS:GO internet gaming community in order to get to know their stance on the question, and set in a motion a movement that will result in real change. The creators of this petition do not wish to reveal their identity.

The aim of the petition

The aim of this petition is to get Valve Software make the following changes in the multiplayer pc game titled „Counter Strike : Global Offensive”: Allow all CS : GO (Counter Strike : Global Offensive) players the option to be separated from other players connected from IP addresses from the Russian Federation when playing in competitive mode”

Justification

There are several types of different problems much more prevalent among players connecting from IP addresses from the Russian Federation, than from other players connecting from other parts of the world. In the following section a brief résume of the problems is shown, divided into different categories.



Behaviour issues

CS:GO players connected from IP addresses from the Russian Federation, playing in competitive mode tend to be rude to their teammates, they are usually not at all constructive in communication, both being true to written chat communication and microphone voice communication as well, and refuse to stop their behavior and stop disturbing the game when asked to do so

CS:GO players connected from IP addresses from the Russian Federation, playing in competitive mode tend to frequently use offensive language, racist slurs, and also tend to talk to the microphone incomprehensibly with an inappropriate volume, heavily disturbing other players in the game, and usually refusing to stop their behavior, leaving others with the only option of muting them, if they do not wish to be disturbed while playing

CS:GO players connected from IP addresses from the Russian Federation, playing in competitive mode tend to inappropriately use the voice communication to play songs and audio clips through their microphone, usually at high volume, again disturbing others while playing, and usually refusing to stop their behavior, leaving others with the only option of muting them, if they do not wish to be disturbed while playing

Cheating Issues

CS:GO players connected from IP addresses from the Russian Federation, playing in competitive mode tend to be found suspicious of using different hacking methods more frequently, with the most important ones being so called “Wallhack” (A hacking method which allows users to see through walls, therefore giving them a highly unfair advantage by allowing them to see enemy players they would normally not see), “Aimbot” (A hacking method which automatically aims and shoots instead of the players manually doing so, giving the user an unfair advantage), “Triggerbot” (A hacking method mostly similar to Aimbot), “Radar hack” (A hacking method allowing the user to see enemy players on his radar instead of seeing only friendly players as normal, giving them an unfair advantage), “No smoke hack” (A hacking method which allowed users to see through smoke created by another player’s smoking grenade, therefore providing them with an unfair advantage) and “No flash hack”, (A hacking method preventing the users from going blind in game when a flash grenade explodes, therefore providing them with an unfair advantage).

CS:GO players connected from IP addresses from the Russian Federation, playing in competitive mode are also more likely to organize themselves in teams, in which one user is obviously cheating, winning the game for the whole team, therefore getting the ranks of all team members higher, with the person cheating usually receiving something in return, most frequently money

Connection Issues

CS:GO players connected from IP addresses from the Russian Federation, playing in competitive mode tend to much more frequently disconnect from the game, therefore significally lowering their team’s chances to win, as all disconnected people are replaced by a BOT, which in the grand majority of the cases plays much worse than a real human



Harassment Issues

CS:GO players connected from IP addresses from the Russian Federation, playing in competitive mode tend to more frequently send offensive messages via steam or other communication platforms, to their fellow teammates and other players of the match after the game, if they blame themselves for the failure of the team, or if they have got into an argument during the game

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