CS:GO Beats Its Own Concurrent Player Record Yet Again
SteamDB has the new record recorded last Sunday at 13:00 UTC. Sundays are usually the highest-population days as people typically are home before the start of the work week, and 13:00 UTC is the time when European gamers are well into their day while North American players are starting to wake up.
As noted by GamesRadar, CS:GO is Steam’s most popular title by a longshot. With almost double the concurrent player count of Dota 2, more than three times that of Hogwarts Legacy, and more than five times that of Apex Legends, CS:GO is a juggernaut, but with a problematic history.
CS:GO first started life as a Half-Life mod before Valve purchased the developer. Later releasing an upgraded stand-alone title called CS:GO, the game evolved with the wider market for live-service games, adding new game modes, loads of cosmetics, and limited-time events. But all those items came wrapped in the worst kinds of monetization, including microtransactions, lootboxes, and worst of all, outright gambling.
Valve might not have casinos in CS:GO, but there are tons of gambling sites out there that will let players put up their in-game cosmetics in games of chance. These gambling sites skirt gambling laws in many places around the work, and it's wrapped up with CS:GO's professional e-sports scene too. People Make Games recently ran a report that alleged it's an open secret that professional e-sports teams throw matches just to make big bucks on CS:GO gambling sites, where players can bet on the outcome of games using those expensive skins.
Making new skins for CS:GO can be big business, which is why some nefarious actors will steal designs from artists in order to sell them as cosmetics. Most recently, a skin for the AWP sniper rifle was removed after the artist reported the design as stolen from one of their creations.
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