Terrorists and counter-terrorists have been clashing in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for over seven years. Heavyweight of the esports scene, Valve’s competitive FPS has been able to cross the years without weakening, as attested by its new audience record recorded yesterday.
With Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive remains one of the most popular games on Steam, ahead PUBG, GTA V and others Rainbow Six Siege. As noted SteamDB, 876 575 players were connected yesterday simultaneously. What surpass the previous record (850,485), established in April 2016 during the MLG Major Columbus tournament.
In December 2018, CS: GO had picked up momentum thanks to its move to free-to-play. The growing popularity of the game in China, where it has been officially available since September 2017 via Perfect world, is also to be taken into account. Finally, let us recall that a new operation called Shattered Web was deployed last November, almost two years after the previous operation (Hydra).
At the time of the record, only 50% of players (439k) were playing on official servers.
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