Though this is fake, hopefully match making doesn't require a paid-for pass in the future past beta. It'll be counter productive in terms of growing the community.

The comp pass has already been confirmed, its in the game files already, theres stuff about it all over. Its also needed. Free game + free game mode = no gate whatsoever to keep out cheaters

Its fake, everyone can go home.

http://i.imgur.com/kWHeVfR.png

1st thing I see "http://i.imgur.com/kWHeVfR.png Jig's up boys. Go home." oh well

I'm sure that $5 thing is probably true tho

meta: what if this picture is faked

jk editting

It was a pretty obvious fake just by looking at the wording. Why would a Valve employee need to "confirm the general consensus" on matchmaking with someone outside of Valve (and only that person, too)?

To further provide proof of the beta pass, you can actually get into the competitive matchmaking lobby by modifying GameMenu.res, and if you make a lobby and try to start a search, you're given the following screen:

http://puu.sh/kwIXr/904033d98b.png

I already have this menu as an option in yayahud, those with it installed can try it out now, it's called "COMP". It'll work correctly when they actually implement MM fully.

That's interesting, because with a custom hud I can actually search, although there are no servers.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/86778387/440_screenshots_2015-10-03_00001.jpg