With Counter-Strike 2’s launch imminent, the franchise is having the time of its life. The most recent information reveals CS:GO has simply damaged a jaw-dropping milestone forward of CS2’s arrival.
CS:GO has recorded over a million gamers each month since August 2022, according to SteamDB. On Aug. 4, 2022, it recorded 1,039,889 gamers, whereas it peaked at 1,818,773 gamers on April 27 the identical 12 months.
These spikes aren’t random both. The sport has tended to peak every time a brand new wave of CS2 beta invitations rolls out. On March 30 this 12 months, the sport peaked at 1,511,946 gamers, simply days after CS2 was announced.
However, most significantly, the spikes are doubtless merely attributable to CS:GO being a fantastic recreation. With the arrival of VALORANT in 2020, some claimed Counter-Strike was useless and would vanish within the subsequent few years. CS2 hype, nevertheless, reveals that’s not the case in any respect.
Valve invited hundreds of thousands of latest gamers to CS2’s beta in late August, handing out access to gamers with Prime standing and an energetic ability group in CS:GO.
Since then, many gamers have been having fun with the restricted check, with the sport peaking at 1,560,435 on Aug. 31. Given CS2 release is scheduled for summer 2023, which is slowly however certainly coming to an finish, these numbers are certainly going to be crushed when recreation really launches.
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