As far as i've been looking into thread people were comparing cs1.6 to cs:go,not to quake, which is essentially exactly the same, without fancy graphics and bunch of childs playing around.Distinguished master guardian here =) Compare quake live with the most popular fps e-sport in the word is ridiculous. Call me when a quake tournament reaches 650k viewers. Don't get me wrong, i grow up playing quake 3 arena, but is an old arena-style shooter, there is no comparation with csgo, is a tactical shooter.
People crying about hacks are wrong 90% of the times, there are hacks thats true, but is really fun see silver/nova players accusing of hacking, is like see a 1450 thrown accusations against a 2k player, they don't even understand the basic of the game so they can't see the diference beetwen an skilled player and a hacker. If i play with an smuft account in low level ranks i got called hacker 9/10 times, they simple don't understand basic concepts like prefire, hold angles, etc. Hacks are a problem in higher ranks mostly, and there are plenty of options when you reach that level, you can play esea/cevo/faceit.
There are hack in all games, deal with it.
Also nobody said anything about CS:GO hacks, but about CS 1.6 hax in this thread.
Also let's be honest, adults doesnt have time to watch 5hour tournament livestream, so all those 650k viewers (also im sure it didnt hit that high i think max it was 150k) was from young players, who prefer graphics.
You can't be more wrong
1) Csgo and 1.6 are complete diferent game, the playstyle and the metagame swifted a lot in csgo. Yes is a counter strike game, but it plays out really diferent. Movement, shoothing, etc..everything is diferent, you can't even start to compare 1.6 with csgo.
2) Who cares about 1.6 hacks? 1.6 died 3 years ago.
3) Ignorance is bliss. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2 ... er-records. The record will be broken the next month in the katowice 2015, you can be sure of that.
Csgo is the more popular e-sport fps game in the world, and the top3 game in twitch (1 - LoL, 2 - Dota2). Is over 5.5millon unique players per month
edit: corrected the link