Individuals who bought entry to the Play Like S1mple membership and academic program for $149 declare they’ve began receiving refunds for his or her purchases and the video tutorials at the moment are personal.
Oleksandr ‘s1mple‘ Kostyljev and ESL FACEIT Group launched the Play Like S1mple challenge on June 3 as an academic challenge for Counter-Strike 2. The product featured classes from the participant and different visitors, present matches, neighborhood tournaments, and “different actions.”
“Together with the academic a part of the teachings, I need to construct an actual reference to my folks, which implies you possibly can stay up for completely different on-line and offline actions for the members,” s1mple stated on social media.
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By buying the course, gamers would have entry to its over 70 academic movies, month-to-month tournaments, a personal Discord channel, “private communication” with s1mple “and his mates,” and entry to non-public streams for a yr.
Simply over a month after its launch, although, the challenge and its programs have all however shuttered. Whereas the programs can nonetheless be bought, patrons have reported receiving refunds and S1mple’s lesson movies at the moment are personal.
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A promotional picture for the Play Like S1mple course.
Customers within the challenge’s public Discord server, customers talked about that lesson movies have been out of the blue personal on July 17. The primary report of refunds being despatched out appeared on July 22.
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“I received issued a refund, so I feel they’re simply refunding everybody and transferring on,” one Discord member stated, explaining that they didn’t submit a request to get their a refund.
Some customers additionally claimed they by no means acquired an invitation to the promoted personal Discord with s1mple.
The challenge’s social media pages haven’t posted something since June 6, and the NAVI participant has not stated something in regards to the obvious closing of his course. His newest social media submit on the time of writing was on June 15 in regards to the Copa America ultimate.
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The standard of the programs was criticized throughout its preliminary tease in Might, as folks discovered the primary classes not well worth the $149 worth.
“No hate however imo it’s a pure rip-off, I’ve seen higher guides without spending a dime on YouTube for newbies and semi-advanced gamers,” one consumer stated within the public Discord.
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The Ukrainian professional final performed an expert Counter-Strike match in June with Crew Falcons on the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown. Earlier than that occasion, s1mple had been away from aggressive CS2 since October.
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