Somebody needs to call the video game ambulance for anyone but Valve’s Counter-Strike 2, which has surprised us once again after pulling back from the supposed dead and breaking its own record for having the most concurrent players on Steam today.
It remains surprising how every time the industry starts to think the long-running Counter-Strike’s hype might be finally dying down, it jumps right back up to claim the crown of the number one spot it proudly owns.
Counter-Strike 2 breaks its own record: Once again
Valve has long been the master of FPS experiences, and breaking the record for the highest concurrent players is nothing new for either the studio or the Counter-Strike franchise. The predecessor of CS2, called CS: GO, was the title that earlier quite frequently enjoyed the same phenomenon of success now and then as well.
Today, as noted by Insider Gaming, the game broke its own record of 1.74 million concurrent players by reaching a new peak of 1.82 million players, setting yet another standard for Steam charts.
While many games experience brief bursts of popularity before fading into the darkness, this title has only grown stronger with time. The game’s previous peak was already an achievement most developers could only dream of, yet Valve somehow managed to raise the bar once more.
It’s simply amusing to see the game perform so well even after many controversies and the great competition from other games over the past few years, including Valorant, Riot Games’ very own Counter-Strike killer, which has greatly affected Valve’s player count to some extent.
What comes next for Valve’s Counter-Strike 2
It’s one thing to set a record, and it’s another to break your own, consistently. Somehow, Valve has managed to achieve exactly this quite a few times till now, which would make a normal human think for once if there is some foul play involved in the process.
But it’s nothing of the sort. It’s simply that Counter-Strike 2, even in all of its updated glory, at core remains the same simple and easy-to-understand shooter game that everybody has been loving since the days of Counter-Strike 1.0 and whatever came after.
With this latest milestone, the question is no longer whether this game will continue to dominate but rather how high it can go. Could it possibly cross 2 million concurrent players soon? The records so far all indicate yes, and the day will be here before you even know it.
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