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Counter-Strike Global Offensive hit's 1.8 Million concurrent players, has more players playing than the next top 5 games combined on Steam.

JMS

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Bulby

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Is this literally the most popular non mobile video game in the world right now?
 

ThreePi

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It's crazy to me that there was a time where FPS eSports meant Counter Strike. And that was probably 20 years ago. And now Counter Strike is probably bigger than it ever has been.
 
Falus

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when I was around 15-18 everybody was about counter strike. I'm leaning to my forties soon and I don't play , nor any single body I know. That's odd.
 
vixolus

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Counter strike is a great game and great esport. I just hate how entrenched it is in gambling.
 
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JMS

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Bulby said:
Is this literally the most popular non mobile video game in the world right now?
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League of Legends seems to have 1M players online right now, there are no official stats for Riot's FPS game Valorant which is more dominant in North-America but not elsewhere.

The all-time Steam record is PUBG with ~3 Million players but that included players from China as far as I know, CS:GO doesn't as it has a separate version for Chinese players called Perfect World
 
Jay_AD

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Something about CS still being fucking huge with a whole new, young audience just warms my heart.

I've never got hugely into it (because I've never been the kind of player that exclusively plays one thing), but have always played it on and off since the Half-Life mod days. Old LAN party mainstay, with Starcraft, AoE2, Quake and UT. Just timeless, evergreen mechanics.
 
Agni Kai

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Don CS:GO, the king of FPS. It's always great to see this game doing so good and I'm so looking forward to the sequel this year.
 
Cats_Schrodinger

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It's just a brilliant game.

I recently wanted to get into Valirant but learning all the abilities, along with that damn rootkit which kept messing with OpenRGB, virtualization and my TPM I just gave up.

There is also no uninstaller for the Riot Client which starts automatically.

CS needs decent competition so this sucks.
 
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You love to see it. When CSGO first came out, it was a mess, looked like a total flop and any attempt to revive Counter-Strike was doomed to fail.

Look at it now. It's such a good game. If there's one game I've always come back to over the past 20 years, it's this - so the fact I have a really good and popular version of it to come back (and hopefully an even better version soon with CS2) makes me happy.
 
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Falus said:
when I was around 15-18 everybody was about counter strike. I'm leaning to my forties soon and I don't play , nor any single body I know. That's odd.
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I played it consistently until go came out. Playe the beta 1.6 stuff and a shitload of source. If it was still like source id keep playing. So much custom content with source then go came out and it was obvious that would not be remotely as big on it with the matchmaking. The matchmaking and the more seriousness of go drove me away. I had played on the same source server for years and years. I hate matchmaking, but im in the minority.
 
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Alek said:
I think League still has more by a fair bit.

Sometimes WOW might even beat those numbers. Like, on a good day.
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There is no way WOW ever haas anything close to those numbers. Right now this number in WOW is probably closer to total subscribers than concurrent users.
 
Crono

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Long live the 2nd kind of fps( behind dod ehehehe). Cant wait until cs2 gets officially released so everyone can play and pew pew
 
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Falus said:
when I was around 15-18 everybody was about counter strike. I'm leaning to my forties soon and I don't play , nor any single body I know. That's odd.
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13-16 for me when CS was the shit at school, and now in recent years csgo has become the most played game in my old man gamer group that has avg age of 35+, crazy
 
Mocha Joe

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Damn didn't know there was that many prankster grandmas and uncles playing CSGO when it's not even a major holiday today

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I think the intimate tactical shooter genre is one of the most classic so I'm not surprised to see this success. I wish we could get something similar on consoles. I know there is RS Siege but that's a lot smaller in scale. Something like SOCOM or CS would be real nice on consoles.
 
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Trey2Deebo said:
I think the intimate tactical shooter genre is one of the most classic so I'm not surprised to see this success. I wish we could get something similar on consoles. I know there is RS Siege but that's a lot smaller in scale. Something like SOCOM or CS would be real nice on consoles.
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supposedly valorant is getting a console release. Though I have to imagine a game like CS or valorant would be awful on a controller
 
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for fun, here's where it placed in 2012:

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Xero grimlock said:
I played it consistently until go came out. Playe the beta 1.6 stuff and a shitload of source. If it was still like source id keep playing. So much custom content with source then go came out and it was obvious that would not be remotely as big on it with the matchmaking. The matchmaking and the more seriousness of go drove me away. I had played on the same source server for years and years. I hate matchmaking, but im in the minority.
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I get the feeling, but there are tons and tons of custom GO servers too, you don't have to use matchmaking.
 
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Qassim said:
You love to see it. When CSGO first came out, it was a mess, looked like a total flop and any attempt to revive Counter-Strike was doomed to fail.

Look at it now. It's such a good game. If there's one game I've always come back to over the past 20 years, it's this - so the fact I have a really good and popular version of it to come back (and hopefully an even better version soon with CS2) makes me happy.
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Yep, I remember playing the beta and thinking "wow, this is garbage". Didn't buy it until years later when the first operation came out. Then right after the Arms Deal update came out and the climb to the top started.
 
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Trey2Deebo said:
I think the intimate tactical shooter genre is one of the most classic so I'm not surprised to see this success. I wish we could get something similar on consoles. I know there is RS Siege but that's a lot smaller in scale. Something like SOCOM or CS would be real nice on consoles.
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Insurgency Sandstorm exists but console players largely ignored it.
 
jokkir

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I know I've been playing a bit more after a long break since after getting my Steam Deck.

Can't wait for CS2.
 
haveheart

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Skin prices are skyrocketing because of surge in popularity and upcoming source tech updates. I startet with a Vulkan I won in a raffle on the old place. Now my inventory is 800$.
 
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turbobrick said:
supposedly valorant is getting a console release. Though I have to imagine a game like CS or valorant would be awful on a controller
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aren't these tac shooters mostly all about holding down angles with good crosshair placement? they're much slower paced, at least movement-wise, which should make aiming easier as well, so i don't see how they would be uniquely bad with a controller.

i only played a couple of sessions of valorant though, and i haven't played cs for over two decades now, so maybe i'm just being ignorant here.
 
tatwo

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I started playing it again. Had 50 hours played couple weeks ago but now it's almost 200 hours. I always watch the Majors but haven't really felt like playing it before.
 
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for fun, here's where it placed in 2012:

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It was crazy that CS:GO was seen as another Condition Zero moment for the series. The Source players had no reason to switch over and to the 1.6 players it was just another version that lacked the feel and intricacies of their desired game (the camp I was in). I never got into GO as much as previous versions but it's been wild to watch its growth.
 
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Adventureracing said:
Generally steam and PC gaming seems to be dominated by quite a few old games right now.
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Is console really that different?

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Years-old live service games and annual releases. The only exception is Jedi Survivor, highlighted in green.

That's just gaming in general these days.
 
Rizific

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CS will forever be king fps. Gotta have something to do with the last csgo major right around the corner and the release of player stickers just recently. I hope cs continues to grow with cs2.
 
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