Anytime you're talking about the hottest game on Steam, there's an evergreen unspoken caveat: 'after Counter-Strike, of course.' CS2 is unquestionably Steam's killer app—it has well over a million concurrent players as I write this according to SteamDB, and it's showing no signs of slowing down. But don't count out the game it once absorbed and then spat out: its predecessor, Global Offensive.
According to SteamDB, it hit an all-time (post re-release) concurrent player peak just three days ago. That's a bit more than 68,000 simultaneous terrorists and counter-terrorists. While that's small potatoes compared to the original game at its peak or CS2 right now—SteamDB appears to only go back to earlier this year when CS:GO un-merged from CS2—it marks a sudden up...
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