Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is over ten years previous, and far of the game design that underpins it dates again to the unique mod launch in 2000. Yet it is arguably extra in style at present than ever, after breaking its all-time concurrent participant document earlier at present.
Earlier on February eleventh, 1,320,219 individuals have been enjoying CS:GO concurrently according to Steam’s own stats. That beats the earlier document of 1,308,963 from April 2020. You can see the historic information most simply via SteamDB.
I feel it might be cheap to take a position that the height in April 2020 was prompted partially by a worldwide pandemic growing participant counts throughout gaming on the whole. The newest peak is more durable to diagnose, though there was an replace yesterday which launched new community-made weapon finished and stickers. Perhaps the ultimate push was lots of people eager to get Denzel Curry’s music in-game.
The extra probably purpose is simply that CS:GO has been steadily growing in reputation for months, with earlier current weekends already getting near breaking the document.
As famous above, in a style of close to fixed change, Counter-Strike has remained remarkably static for almost 20 years. CS:GO’s improvements got here through new aggressive rating, new development methods, and a handful of recent maps, whereas its modes and arsenal of weapons went principally untouched. Valve did make a uncommon tweak to 2 of its hottest weapons final November.
While CS:GO is clearly in impolite well being, Team Fortress 2’s group have been protesting in current months because of an absence of assist from Valve. Valve introduced this previous week that they’d launch a serious replace for his or her different crew shooter this summer time, though the announcement submit principally consists of Valve asking Team Fortress 2’s group to make the replace for them.