CS2 has beaten its own player count record once again. It soared above 1.5 million concurrent users in the wake of the Counter-Strike 2 release. The community comes together to continue appreciating one of the best esports titles in the business, an exorbitant concurrent player count of 1.5 million has been achieved, which is in itself a remarkable figure.

Counter-Strike Keeps Growing

The hype train following release was long but eventually, the player count began to drop. This was because of the gameplay, the lack of updates and no cl_bob command! There are many ways that Counter-Strike 2 differs from CSGO, with the developer, Valve, saying that it’s the ‘largest technical leap forward’ in franchise history.

While we await the first CS2 Major (Copenhagen Major), it’s an intense time to be one of the best CS players in the world. There’s an extremely important ongoing mission to get as good at Counter-Strike 2 as possible, and fast.

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CS2 Player Counts

Counter-Strike 2 may still shatter peak player counts in 2024. In the fall of 2023, Counter-Strike 2 was already starting to pick up steam as new and old players returned to the game. With all of your skins and such accumulated and transferred into CS2, there was nothing to stop players just jumping back in and grinding the game.

Things have taken a bit of a hit since then. But that doesn’t mean the CS2 player count is going to keep falling. There are more updates coming. We may even get a new CS operation!

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Counter-Strike 2 is totally free-to-play, yet CS2 Prime sales are skyrocketing as players want to try the new Premier queue. It feels mostly like the same game, just better. There are also rumours that a CS2 mobile game is in development, but that’s nowhere near being confirmed.

2024 is going to be an exciting year for Counter-Strike.