Make it exist
Remove barriers to play
At this stage the enemy is friction. You need ten people in a game at the same time, and every requirement costs you some of them. So the first step is to remove as many barriers as possible.
- Community patches have made many games properly playable again. We host the servers and walk you through the client installs.
- Free matchmaking servers. You do not pay to play here, and there is no server to rent first.
- No client to install for basic matchmaking. An account and a linked Discord for notifications is all you need to get started.
- No anti-cheat requirement to queue. The barrier that makes sense at a hundred thousand players is fatal when you're struggling to get ten.
Make it relevant
Give playing meaning
Once people are playing, the games have to add up to something. This is the half that is still being built, and it is a plan rather than a promise. This is what will keep people coming back for more.
- A league is on the table, in the shape the old amateur circuit had — without the red tape unless you want to compete seriously.
- Tournaments and ladders for different gametypes are being considered.
- Stats that come off the match server's own log, not off anybody's honor.
- Anti-cheat required only for competitive play, because a result that means something has to be trustworthy.
- Eventually, free practice servers for teams enrolled in a league — strats, nades — with the option to buy one.
The anti-cheat answer is a choice, not a compromise.
Required wherever a result counts for something — stats, standings, a place in a league or ladder. Optional everywhere else. That is not softness about cheating; it is matching the requirement to what is actually at stake. Nothing rides on a pickup game but the hour you spent on it. A league result rides on everything downstream of it. Most people will run it anyway once they see what it is, but that should be their choice rather than a toll at the door. The client is non-invasive, and you can read what it does before you install it.
The question everyone asks
FACEIT makes an existing scene better. We are trying to make a scene exist.
That is a real difference and not a dig. FACEIT is a quality layer over games with millions of active players, and they are very good at it — they have scale and instant queues, and we have neither. But they have never had to make a scene exist, because for their games it already had. We are solving whether a match happens at all, which is why this includes things they would never build: fixing your install, practice servers, running the league itself.
It's entirely free.
The goal is to bring these communities back, so the people who miss them can return and find everything in one place — the patch, the servers, the competition, the stats.