S1mple\u2019s $149 CS2 class refunded after \u201cscam\u201d lessons taken down GG.BETPeople who purchased access to the Play Like S1mple club and educational program for $149 claim they have started receiving refunds for their purchases and the video tutorials are now private. Oleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2018 Kostyljev and ESL FACEIT Group launched the Play Like S1mple project on June 3 as an educational project for Counter-Strike 2. The product featured lessons from the player and other guests, show matches, community tournaments, and \u201cother activities.\u201d \u201cAlong with the educational part of the lessons, I want to build a real connection with my people, which means you can look forward to different online and offline activities for the members,\u201d s1mple said on social media. By purchasing the course, players would have access to its over 70 educational videos, monthly tournaments, a private Discord channel, \u201cpersonal communication\u201d with s1mple \u201cand his friends,\u201d and access to private streams for a year. Just over a month after its launch, though, the project and its courses have all but shuttered. While the courses can still be purchased, buyers have reported receiving refunds and S1mple\u2019s lesson videos are now private. Users in the project\u2019s public Discord server, users mentioned that lesson videos were suddenly private on July 17. The first report of refunds being sent out appeared on July 22. \u201cI got issued a refund, so I think they are just refunding everyone and moving on,\u201d one Discord member said, explaining that they did not submit a request to get their money back. Some users also claimed they never received an invite to the promoted private Discord with s1mple. The project\u2019s social media pages have not posted anything since June 6, and the NAVI player has not said anything about the apparent closing of his course. His latest social media post at the time of writing was on June 15 about the Copa America final. The quality of the courses was criticized during its initial tease in May, as people found the first lessons not worth the $149 price. \u201cNo hate but imo it\u2019s a pure scam, I\u2019ve seen better guides for free on YouTube for newbies and semi-advanced players,\u201d one user said in the public Discord. The Ukrainian pro last played a professional Counter-Strike match in June with Team Falcons at the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown. Before that event, s1mple had been away from competitive CS2 since October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
S1mple\u2019s $149 CS2 class refunded after \u201cscam\u201d lessons taken down GG.BETPeople who purchased access to the Play Like S1mple club and educational program for $149 claim they have started receiving refunds for their purchases and the video tutorials are now private. Oleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2018 Kostyljev and ESL FACEIT Group launched the Play Like S1mple project on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}