The Cloud9 Valorant account has released a huge tweet on the official account which can be best described as a deep dive into the topic of gaming regret. It is neither the next agent nor the patch notes. It is the death of a person. The moment when you are not a Valorant player anymore and don’t even realize it is here.
More than 2000 players have reacted to this heavy tweet by retweeting and liking it. The tweet then digs deeper into the theme of gaming regret. It paints a picture of a day when you just stop playing. Life gets busy and you move on. However, the doubts will still be in your mind: ‘What rank would you have really achieved if you really tried? Not the ‘I play for fun’ excuse, not the ‘I could hit Radiant’ lie, but if you critically reviewed your play, if you treated the game with utmost seriousness?’ The tweet also speaks about the partners you never found, the pals you cut off after a losing spell, the queues you evaded, the ‘lobby is doomed’ mentalities. Every one of these situations was a choice. And choices, the tweet hints, build up over time. You are writing that story now. The post wraps up with an effective, though simple, message: ‘study the VALORANT way’.
Replying to the post, the mood is instantly pretty clear. It reflects the different views that the community has regarding Riot’s tactical shooter. The very concerned players were the ones who really connected to the tweet. For instance, @Echuiin tweeted ‘If you apply this to everything in life too, it slaps.’ And that is, in fact, very true. It is an emotion that is felt much beyond the gaming area. It is all about devotion, hard work, and the options not taken.
Nevertheless, the opposite side has a lot more voices. The tweet practically and very pointedly legitimized the frustrations that the players have been expressing for a while. User @rehveng even went as far as to say ‘nga valorant is miserable LMAO.’ Harsh, but very truthful. Another player, @official_izaz, simply pointed out ‘Uninstalled and happy.’ Oof. So, the vibe is definitely there for some players.
And how about the drama! Players started almost instantly accusing Cloud9 of stealing the idea for the post. It turns out, the whole ‘study the… way’ thing? A well-known League of Legends streamer Saskio has used that before. Users like @dipolar_animals tagged Saskio saying ‘they stole ur gimmick.’ Others, like @shgetora, were more direct: ‘come up with your own longpoast.’ The discussion even touched upon whether it was created by AI, with @_MiamiSteve responding with just ‘ai’ to a thread talking about it. So, the post is making people rethink their life decisions in a video game, but it is also surrounded by the mini-controversy of originality. Amazing.
Dialogue in the comments is not so clean-cut, and it reflects nicely the mixed-up game experience in 2024 Valorant. One user, @ZeabaMaz, became the voice of chaotic agreement and replied to many comments with ‘yooo bruh 😠fr fr Valorant [insert issue here]… Novaxware cheaters still ruining everything fr 💀🔥’ or something like that. The reference to ‘Novaxware cheaters’ was frequent and seemed to be an indicator of a strong and persistent dislike towards the game in terms of its anti-cheat measures. It is right there and at the same time it is a sensitive issue that the poetic post inadvertently brought up.
There were a few of the replies that laid out the gamers’ suffering in detail and with different shades. @hushuVAL said, ‘All that for p1 level 400 I might just be mentally challenged.’ That’s the grind, right there. The hundreds of hours for a rank that doesn’t feel like it matches the effort. @SatyamSarkar quoted and added another layer of sadness: ‘”You played this game so long, for only to realize that the game was only playing you”‘. Damn. That one really hurts.
And, of course, the never-ending rivalry between the games has not been silent. @Anxiouzness just wrote ‘Counter Strike is a better game.’ It is the classic debate once more, but in the context of this tweet about commitment and potential regret, it hits different. It is like asking why one should devote so much of oneself to this game when that one is available? The gaming community on PlayStation and Xbox often has these debates.
