The Counter-Strike 2 announcement has sent the iconic shooter to new heights on Steam.
Judging by all the multiplayer game by logging into CSGO in droves.
On February 19, CSGO hit an all-time concurrent player record of 1,324,000. At the time, it seemed unbeatable. But with the news that CS2 is actually happening, all of a sudden, anything seems possible – CSGO players just blew the latest Steam record out of the water.
On March 25, a gigantic 1,507,212 people logged on to play CSGO at the same time. It puts Counter-Strike Global Offensive comfortably above MMO Lost Ark as the second most concurrently played game on Steam ever, behind only battle royale PUBG, which saw a massive 3,257,248 players log on simultaneously in 2018 – though that number has since dropped to around 400,000.
The record comes as datamines of CS2 potentially reveal a new form of Valve Anti-Cheat, which may new knife skins and both male and female announcers.
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