Valve's first-person shooter Counter-Strike 2 has hit its highest player count since May 2023, and it isn't really clear why that's happened.
Counter-Strike 2 was surprise-released in September 2023, essentially serving as both a sequel to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and a major update for that game as well. In May that year, when it was still Global Offensive, the game hit its all-time Steam player count high of 1,818,773 (per SteamDB).
This weekend, again according to SteamDB's numbers (with thanks to Dexerto), Counter-Strike 2 managed to hit a concurrent player count of 1,741,837, representing the game's highest player numbers since the Steam launch of both Global Offensive and Counter-Strike 2 itself.
It's worth noting that Counter-Strike 2's numbers (which were originally those of Global Offensive, lest we forget) have been trending upwards since 2012, and that the game has routinely been playing host to over a million players per day since 2022.
Still, there weren't any major CS2 esports tournaments over the weekend, and as far as I know, no major Counter-Strike 2 content creators have done anything particularly noteworthy over the past few days either.
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