Monday, March 13th 2023
CS:GO Sets 1.4 Million Concurrent Online Player Count Record
The wildly popular and decade-spanning Counter Strike: Global Offensive set a new all-time concurrent player record over the weekend of 1,420,183 according to SteamDB's tracking. While CS:GO may possibly be looking toward a sunset later this month as rumors of a sequel loom overhead, the game has continued to enjoy a steady increase in players over the past few weeks. A prior record set only a few weeks ago in February finally broke the all-time record of 1,308,963 set way back in 2020, and there was nearly enough momentum to break the record again within 24 hours of the last. Average player numbers are still below that of April 2020's 857,604, but we may yet see even that record broken given the momentum keeps up.
The official CS:GO Twitter account posted a brief congratulations to the player base for setting the record, stating:
Source:
Twitter @CSGO
The official CS:GO Twitter account posted a brief congratulations to the player base for setting the record, stating:
Thank you to our 1.4M Twitter followers for organizing and playing CS:GO concurrently today.
13 Comments on CS:GO Sets 1.4 Million Concurrent Online Player Count Record
I think CSGO and many online games is subtly tapping into the "social need" that all humans have and need to let out, we are social creatures, but how we socialize can manifest in different ways.
Personally, I'd rather go hiking with a few friends to satisfy that need, but to each their own. I think it is why I tend to play single player games, as I prefer to get my social elsewhere.
until then... I guess all we can is enjoying Rosetta :/Counter Strike has been always overall loved by 2 sides - competitive enjoyers and custom game mode players.
Valve is still not abandoning the second group - we are all still given proper tools to create and run modifications over their games.
And about competitive scene / group - it is not hard to notice that CS was and still is the most competitive fair FPS - no perks, no power ups, no ultimates, no weird skills for certain characters
just you, your reflex and your aim.
Is it a proper competitive shooter when your certain characters can wallhack, or shot through walls with some weird lasers - or teleport or cover defuse objective with a toxic gas (hello valorant)
the phenomenological experience of it is rather interesting to observe.
i just gave you 1 example why
Street Fighter isn't much fun in single player forever ;)
( it turns out there are bot farms, farming cases)
Tried to play online a few years ago with colleagues, from the first few games I realized it was full of cheaters. The colleagues said the enemies are just better than us, I stopped playing, they watched the replays and realized the enemies were cheating. At least one cheater per game. I tried again a few more times, same experience, cheaters in almost every game. Plus a few toxic kids swearing. Uninstalled the game.
I like to play FPS games to improve my reflexes, but there are too many cheaters to play ranked seriously.
I don't really see CSS2 coming.
Regarding cheaters, there are not so many as before since Valve is doing active cleanup monthly.