Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek has become one of the most notable and popular streamers on Twitch playing primarily first-person shooters. One of the top stars in CS:GO, he also recently began dabbling in competitive VALORANT. During a recent live stream, Shroud gave his reasons for not wanting to participate in competitive gaming moving forward.
“It [VALORANT] feels pretty good online, so I don’t quite know how it’ll feel on LAN,” said Shroud. “CS felt terrible online. But this game, in my opinion, feels a lot better online than CS. I imagine on LAN it will feel good, for sure, but I don’t imagine it being that different, right?… “Um… too much work and I’m lazy… I don’t know. Listen, if I was a pro I couldn’t play New World and that would p**s me off,” he concluded, referring to Amazon’s new MMO title.
This is an understandable answer from Shroud. As a former professional at one of the highest levels of an esport, he obviously understands a large amount of work needed to compete. In addition, Shroud has played a lot of New World over the past few months. He acknowledged that turning professional again would prevent him from playing as much of the MMORPG. In addition, he has often provided advice to developers on ways that he believes the game could be improved.
It will be interesting to see what the future holds for Shroud. While these comments seem to suggest that he won’t be competing professionally in VALORANT or CS:GO, that doesn’t mean he won’t continue to stream first-person shooters. He still regularly plays VALORANT to tens of thousands of viewers and likely isn’t going to stop soon.
(All information was provided by Game Rant and Dexerto)
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