Valve don’t let go of your honesty counter strike and he obviously has good reason not to. As he plans to transform Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in counter strike 2 this summer by improving it on a few points and passing it to the engine Source 2interest in the reference episode of the moment is at its highest.
He had already surprised by exceeding the bar of 1.3 million players last February, breaking a record old from 2020 and the health crisis, now the free-to-play reached the staggering total of 1,519,457 players connected simultaneously on Steam this week-end ! This is its best historical performance, which allows it to exceed the 1,325,305 players gathered at the same time on Lost Ark at its launch. Well, it will still take a lot, a lot of work to beat the 3,257,248 players who once gathered on PUBGbut it at least gives a goal for the sequel, 11 years after the release of CS:GO.
PSA: Idling on official matchmaking servers in CS:GO does not increase your chances of making into the CS2 Limited Test. The playtime that counts was your playtime prior to the start of the Limited Test.
— CS2 (@CounterStrike) March 27, 2023
This enthusiasm is certainly explained by a renewed interest in the franchise on the e-sports scene, and of course the announcement of CS2 which has awakened the old demons of millions of players who have already started a game on the game of Valve. Some also may have believed that reconnecting regularly would allow them to obtain a key for the beta of counter strike 2but the developers have reminded them that they will first be distributed to players who are active before the announcement of this trial phase.