In 2015, a trade union was formed among a large gathering of professional game teams that required at least a $75,000 prize pool for CS:GO tournaments.
High profile tournaments with cash prizes are held regularly, which further boost the game’s reach through streaming platforms such as Twitch. The global appeal of the game has helped it maintain its popularity even while other similar, flashier games such as the annual Call of Duty iterations come and go. The massive crowd at a CS:GO Esports tournament. Pitting a team of player-controlled terrorists and counter-terrorists against each other in objective-based matches (including planting and defusing bombs), Counter-Strike has been a mainstay of the esports scene practically since the industry’s inception. Released in 2012, CS:GO is the fourth iteration of the Counter-Strike series of competitive first-person shooters which launched nearly 20 years ago as a total conversion mod for Valve’s Half-Life. The numbers fall off sharply from there, as fourth place and beyond tend to rotate between major new releases and long-running mainstays.
This position is bolstered by the StarLadder Berlin Major 2019 esports tournament, which ended on September 9th.ĬS:GO trades spots regularly with another Valve title and strong esports contender, Dota 2, and the mega-popular PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds ( PUBG) in third place.
Currently, C ounter-Strike: Global Offensive ( CS:GO), developed and published by Valve in 2012, reigns supreme on Steam’s top 10 games chart with a peak of 600,000 concurrent players and approximately 300,000 concurrent users at any given time in a 24-hour period. Valve Corporation’s extremely popular Steam digital storefront has over 1 billion registered accounts and over 90 million unique active users a month.
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