Meh people will always hate.
CS:GO will become popular in my eyes, why? Because first, 1.6 is getting rEALLY outdated and secondly it looks fresh compared to BS 1.6 (Yes, I probably have 200+ hours of pcw playing etc.) Also there is no real other FPS that compares to CS in a competitive way. /thread.
Also AWP is awesome, when you hit! But it's crap CQ and nades limit the use of it (Sure you can get lucky vs flash/smoke)