This week, there were more people playing Counter-Strike than at any point in the HISTORY of the game.
On Sunday, CS:GO broke its own record for all-time concurrent players by hitting more than 900,000 people, all flicking, fragging and force-buying at the same time.
In other words, this eight-year-old, graphically outdated, hardcore FPS with an obsolete game engine has NEVER been more popular.
Why? Well, we MIGHT have Riot Games to thank.
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CS:GO STONKS are skyrocketing guys. But how long will this new golden age last — is Riot Games' Project A a Counter-Strike killer?
YES MORE CSGO PLEASE
0:52 "Abouut, cs go". Canadian accent slipped though there mate. Best
It’s the Chinese
It's still the second child.
Why can't valve just realize that DOTA2 is a failure.
Thank you for saying "unwanted step child", and not the other term that should not be OK to use.
more csgo vids 😀
CSGO runs on my potato laptop while newer games don't. Siege doesn't run. OW barely runs. PUBG would light it up on fire. CSGO runs well on lowest. I highly doubt the new Riot Games project will. I'm willing to bet the same applies to a lot of people out there.
These guys at the score are clueless. It's China where its growing. It's actually loosing players in the West. Half assed non researched video. This has been covered properly by other people. I think Warowl or 3klicks phillip
Reddit reached 1m subscribers, if majority can match peak playing times, we can reach 1m
Please someone tell me, wtf is “don’t @ me”
yeaaah CSGO has been the most ignored game by valve *pats HL2*… shh shhh he didnt include you in that … shhh
dear bosses reading the comments ………. …… coughs to be able to type clearer CSGO MOORE!! ….. doh…
i think its more to do with the competition and the fact that TONS of decent new maps were made for it !
Theyre gonna turn CS into COD…
Nah, Project A will probably hit 500k players when its released and then like 100k concurrent from there
Counter strike, the poor people's shooter.
simply because 2019 only crap games were released
timeless game , best shooter game of all time
reason = china.
I want less fortnite garbage
Well as a CS:GO veteran I have a "theory" too. Maybe because it is FREE now and now game is full of kids who easily can hack and be toxic. Also so Valve doing jack shit and trying to fill the game with more skins and micro transactions instead of focusing on the game itself. Game was dying due to lack of attention and Valve just wanted more money didn't wanna bother to make the game better. 3 years ago cheater ratio was 1/8 that makes every game filled with hacker. Wonder how it is now?
"Riot games might have something to do with it"
So Valve should be scared of Poject A , aaand ladies and gentlemen thats why so many people play csgo right now…….
……make sense right?
Or am I the only one scratching my head after this explanation by Colin?
its free
more Please
I don't think you understand Valve. Whatever Riot games has inspired, it's not Gabe Newell. It's the CG:GO team. Gabe can say he wants TF2.5 all he wants but unless he himself does it and/or convinces a bunch of Valve people to join him, nothing's going to happen. This is exactly how Half-Life: Alyx got started. A bunch of people wanted to do it and they did it.
Gaben really can't care if CS:GO dies as a business opportunity. He would care more about why a game being made is wasting everyone's time and talent. Never forget that Valve until this day still runs like a non-profit mod team. You know how it is back in the day. When the team just doesn't feel it anymore, they just move on. This is a great way of keeping your company always inspired and looking for the next big thing no matter how many mistakes you make.
Actually this is a bit more nuanced. I watched a video about this a few months back. The channel was focused on valve. Seems it's a change seen in valve as a whole and is suspected to have caused by some DoTA presenter being added to Valves management team. Half lives release promotion being proof of valves change in menthods
CS:GO
Because coronavirus
Lol players are noobs
More content like this about CSGO! High level analysis is amazing
Worst game I've played ever, was there in the beginning. Cheater or not you got VAC banned if salty overwatch kids never saw a decent player and reported you for cheating. Its case opening simulator in disguise.
But its dead…
Project A looks like shit
What Abt should