CS:GO community is once again enraged and this time it’s Fortnite World Cup being the cause. With whopping $30 Million USD prize pool for the world cup, and even Dota 2’s The International’s prize pool has crossed $30 Million, CS:GO community is not quite happy with the developers. On the contrary, being the oldest and most user-friendly esport with heavy viewership, CS:GO’s most prominent tournament, the valve sponsored major, is capped at $1 Million.

A thread titled, “Valve: Let us crowdfund majors” was heavily upvoted and several heated arguments took place, however, Valve has remained ignorant about it. “It’s pathetic that a consumer would ask a company to humbly allow them to pay the money they should be providing,” commented a user.

Unlike Dota 2, CS:GO community does not crowdfund events, however, the community purchases stickers, graffiti, etc. and half the money is directly transferred to the players. Meaning that the community does not actually crowdfund the events but they definitely contribute towards teams’ earnings.

16-year-old Bugha who won $3 Million USD in the Fortnite World Cup has surpassed lifetime earnings of various CS:GO pro players for nearly a decade or have won multiple majors including — Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz, Jake “Stewie2K Yip, Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo, Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer, Filip “NEO” Kubski, Nathan “NBK” Schmitt.

Several CS:GO celebrities reacted to the Fortnite World Cup held last weekend. Jake “Stewie2K” was quite critical about Bugha winning $3M USD while Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz congratulated the winners and applauded the game bringing masses closer to video games. Nathan “NBK” Schmitt was quite amused by the prize pool. Rory “dephh” Jackson said he doesn’t like the game but he appreciated what it has been doing for gaming fraternity. Markus “Kjaerbye” Kjærbye shared a light moment criticising CS:GO major’s comparatively less prize pool, while DonHaci criticized Fortnite’s RNG mechanism.

Someone put 30M in CSGO ? — Jake (@Stewie) July 28, 2019

How fucking sick isn’t it that we have a FPS game now that can make you a millionaire in 1 tournament.

Let’s congratulate the people that grinded and won instead of being jealous.

The way Fortnite brought the masses to video games is for the better of everyone.

My 5 cent ? — Nicolai Reedtz (@dev1ce) July 29, 2019

That __almost__ makes me wanna play Fortnite again — Nathan Schmitt (@NBK) July 27, 2019

Fortnite normalizes gaming and mainstreams it to a generation cs isn’t getting to as much. I do not like the game but I love what it’s doing for gaming. — dephh (@dephh_csgo) July 28, 2019

Make that around 30 major trophies to earn that amount ? — Markus Kjærbye (@KjaerbyeCS) July 28, 2019

BR or any other heavy RNG based esport can never be Tier 1 for exactly that reason. https://t.co/JxnJTSCSkr — Haci (@DonHaci) July 29, 2019

Valve still hasn’t responded, however, fans await.