“CS:GO Breaks Record with 1.8 Million Peak Online Players, Boosted by Market Growth and Paris Major Championship”

Valve’s own shooting game “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO)” once again broke its own record. On May 7, the peak number of online players broke through the 1.8 million mark, surpassing March in one fell swoop “CS2” (Counter-Strike 2) released the results, and the Paris Major also officially started today.

according to SteamDB According to the record, at 2 o’clock in the morning on May 7, Taiwan time, a maximum of 1,818,773 players boarded “CS:GO” at the same time. This number greatly surpassed the peak record of 1,519,457 after the release of “CS2” in March this year.

It is worth mentioning that 1.8 million is not the highest number of players on Steam games. In January 2018, “PUBG” set a record of 3,257,248 players online at the same time. No one can break it so far. It is also the prelude to the era of battle royale games .

Speaking of why “CS:GO” is still popular for a long time, a large part of it lies in the market transactions of “CS:GO” itself, especially after the release of “CS2”, which has driven a wave of market growth .

At the same time, as the last official e-sports event of “CS:GO” “Paris Major Championship 2023” (Blast.tv CS:GO 2023 Paris Major), Valve launched the “spectator pass” and sales of team stickers and player signatures as usual, 50 % of proceeds go directly to players, teams and organizations participating in major tournaments.

And these items can also be found in the Steam market,The rarer it is, the more it will be reflected in the priceplus the game is scheduled to start on May 8, various factors may be the reason why the number of “CS:GO” players broke the record.

It is worth mentioning that the first e-sports special championship of “CS2” that has not yet been launched will not be held until 2024, and the Paris Major will be the last special tournament held in “CS:GO”. One stick is about to be handed over to “CS2”.