CS:GO Sets 1.4 Million Concurrent Online Player Count Record

[Fouquin]

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:

Thank you to our 1.4M Twitter followers for organizing and playing CS:GO concurrently today.

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[Garrus]

I hope the sequel means we get an Apple Silicon native version.

 

[Space Lynx]

Never understood peoples fascination with this game. Tried it a few times, I thought it was boring.

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.

 

[Karti]

I hope the sequel means we get an Apple Silicon native version.

All Valve gamers are Linux native and if Asahi Linux going to be more finished, then probably might not be any issue running CS:GO there

until then... I guess all we can is enjoying Rosetta :/

Never understood peoples fascination with this game. Tried it a few times, I thought it was boring.

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.

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)

 

[Space Lynx]

All Valve gamers are Linux native and if Asahi Linux going to be more finished, then probably might not be any issue running CS:GO there

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)

feeding the competitive part of the brain is no different than ones ego inflating, another subtle ability of the human brain to satisfy ones social need.

the phenomenological experience of it is rather interesting to observe.

 

[Karti]

feeding the competitive part of the brain is no different than ones ego inflating, another subtle ability of the human brain to satisfy ones social need.

the phenomenological experience of it is rather interesting to observe.

Well you asked me how this "boring crappy game" is so popular

i just gave you 1 example why

 

[Garrus]

Well you asked me how this "boring crappy game" is so popular

i just gave you 1 example why

exactly, some games are for story and relaxation, some are to compete

Street Fighter isn't much fun in single player forever

 

[Ripcord]

no ones playing they are sitting in the lobby hoping counter strike 2 comes out CS:GO is a cheater infested mess
( it turns out there are bot farms, farming cases)

 

[kha]

Long time ago I played CS:GO 1.6 with friends on LAN, it was super fun.
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.

 

[Upgrayedd]

I imagine it's just CSGO updated to Source 2.
I don't really see CSS2 coming.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Still by far the best multiplayer game out there.
Regarding cheaters, there are not so many as before since Valve is doing active cleanup monthly.

 

[Ephebus]

That was probably Valve's objective when they practically stopped banning cheaters over 2 years ago...

 

[BlaezaLite]

exactly, some games are for story and relaxation, some are to compete

Street Fighter isn't much fun in single player forever

I've been playing Street Fighter 2 since 1993 and I've NEVER been bored of it in single player. Practice makes perfect...

 

[RegaeRevaeb]

In an unrelated survey about sex, Rubadub Polling found a remarkable lack of shagging reported by participants the same weekend. Its parallel poll about adult content site visits was not ready at press time.