Gear up. We aren't going on a windy walk here.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive launched on 21 August, 2012, and on 11 February 2023 it has just surpassed its all-time record of concurrent players: At the time of writing, 1,320,219 players are in-game. The previous record was 1,308,963 players around three years ago.
Counter-Strike dates back to 1999, and began as a mod for Half-Life that became popular enough for Valve to take notice. Valve made one of the best decisions in its history: It bought the rights and hired the co-creators to work on making it into a standalone release.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the latest iteration of what the official twitter account, quite rightly, calls"your favourite first-person shooter's favourite first-person shooter.
CS: GO didn't launch in the best of conditions, and the first few years saw big changes. You can make a very good argument that, as well as the rock-solid core of the game,