CSGO Breaks Steam Record Amid Counter-Strike 2 Reveal
As news of Valve's upcomingCounter-Strike 2 continues to break, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has reached an unprecedented number of concurrent players over 10 years after the game's release. Today's record number of CSGO players has launched Valve's free-to-play shooter into the number two position previously occupied by Amazon Games' free-to-play MMORPG Lost Ark, which attracted a massive player count during its February 2022 release.
Counter-Strike has long been one of the premier competitive shooters in the industry, beginning as a humble Half-Life mod that would grow into a global eSports phenomenon. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been the series' current iteration for over a decade, but despite its age, the game has remarkably grown in popularity over the years. The explosion in popularity of streaming platforms like Twitch has brought competitive gaming to massive audiences, while the game's free-to-play model and lax system requirements make it easily accessible to any gamer willing to accept the challenge.
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Due to a combination of those factors along with recent news of Counter-Strike 2, CSGO smashed its previous record of concurrent players on Steam which was around 1,350,000 in February. Today's peak player count for CSGO was a staggering 1,507,212 concurrent players, though the number has already fallen to nearly half that many later in the day. This record placedCSGO in the number two position of all-time concurrent players, just ahead of Lost Ark's 1,324,761 record but behind PUBG's colossal 3,236,000 record. However, CSGO has absolutely crushed both of those games' current player counts, with Lost Ark peaking at just 94,860 while a
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