While Counter-Strike has lengthy appeared a kind of games which may simply have discovered its remaining type and can now be round perpetually, I’m stunned that it’s nonetheless breaking its personal data. Over the weekend, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive set a brand new report for the variety of folks in-game on-line on the identical time, beating a report set in April 2016. That was again earlier than CS:GO went free-to-play, thoughts, but it surely’s taken a yr free of charge CS to climb up and topple that mighty report. 901,681 gamers on Sunday, that’s the brand new excessive.
The statfans at SteamDB famous yesterday that Valve’s public information had shared the large information. The earlier report, recorded in April 2016, was for 850,485 people in-game. That additionally counts folks idly in menus or doing bizarre issues but it surely’s a fairly clear increase to the ol’ large numbers.
After that top in 2016, CS began to slowly dwindle. In November 2018, simply earlier than the free-to-play change, the month’s peak was 546,192. And certain, going free introduced nice globs of latest gamers but it surely’s nonetheless needed to climb again uphill to set this new report.
CS is the most important game on Steam by far nowadays, with concurrent playercounts lots of of 1000’s larger than rivals. Steam is just not an entire image of PC gaming, in fact, what with Fortnite and League Of Legends and all the remainder. It’s nonetheless a variety of bombs going off, and mighty spectacular for a game seven-and-a-bit years outdated.
