Steam and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive set new records for the number of simultaneous users

Multiplayer shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive broke his own record for the number of users simultaneously in the game. According to publicly available statistics Steam, in the last 24 hours the shooter has reached a peak over 1,000,000 players online. In recent months, interest in CS: GO has been steadily growing, but this figure has been reached for the first time in eight years since the release.

Right now Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is on the first line of the Steam ranking in terms of the number of players, almost two times ahead of Dota 2 and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.

The increased online shooter is associated with the growing popularity of the game in China, as well as the transition to the shareware distribution model in 2018 along with the release of a combat pass Operation shattered web. Probably also played a role in this. an outbreak of coronavirus around the world, due to which many people began to spend more time at home.

At the same time Steam Today also updated the attendance record. The number of service users simultaneously online in the peak has reached 19,600,516 human.

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