HomeNews
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hit a new record high playercount this weekendYou take the point
You take the point
While Counter-Strike has long seemed one of those games that might just have found its final form and will now be around forever, I am surprised that it’s still breaking its own records. Over the weekend,Counter-Strike: Global Offensiveset a new record for the number of people in-game online at the same time, beating a record set in April 2016. That was back beforeCS:GOwent free-to-play, mind, but it’s taken a year for free CS to climb up and topple that mighty record. 901,681 players on Sunday, that’s the new high.
The statfansat SteamDBnoted yesterday that Valve’s public data had shared the big news. The previous record,recordedin April 2016, was for 850,485 folks in-game. That also counts people idly in menus or doing weird things but it’s a pretty clear boost to the ol' big numbers.
After that high in 2016, CS started to slowly dwindle. In November 2018, just before the free-to-play switch, the month’s peak was 546,192. And sure, going free brought great globs of new players but it’s still had to climb back uphill to set this new record.
