CS:GO, Valve’s original multiplayer first-person shooter and the most played game on Steam, beating even Dota 2 and GTA 5, has understandably racked up a huge amount of collective playtime since its release in 2012. online shooter, however, has just crossed a major and impressive new frontier where terrorists and counter-terrorists have been officially killing each other since the Upper Paleolithic era.
At its peak, CS:GO had 928,329 concurrent users. That number is down a bit now, to 676,642, but it still far outstrips the rest of Steam’s top 5, and Dota 2, Lost Ark, Rust, and GTA 5 can’t come close to CS:GO’s continued popularity. After ten years and many rivals in the competitive shooter space, that alone is quite an achievement, but nonetheless dwarfed by yet another CS:GO record spanning the geological, topographical, and anthropological history of our entire planet.
441,579,584. That’s the number of hours, as of this writing, that CS:GO players have collectively spent in Valve’s online FPS. Hard to understand? Well, let’s try to put that in perspective. Little calculations (such as Google’s hour to year converter) show that CS:GO fans have been shooting, hacking, and punching each other for a total of 50,408 years; That 50,000-year threshold was crossed on August 4 when CS:GO gamers put in more than 14 million hours of multiplayer carnage in a single day. The ancient historians among you – there must be at least one among you – associate this number with the Upper Paleolithic, a period from around 50,000 to 12,000 years ago when Homo sapiens left Africa for Asia and Eurasia and left behind some of the evidence oldest settlements and works of art.
So think of it this way: If I could build a time machine and get a Steam platform (it’s hard to say which would be the most difficult right now), then I’d go back to Prehistoric Windia and offer a Valve handheld to a loner. , unassuming caveman, then also instructed them to do nothing for the next 50,000 years except play CS:GO all day, every day, and just this week, in 2022, Anno Domini, would they finally score the same hours of play, how many right? Counter-Strike fans. Imagine how good they will be with AWP. You shouldn’t think about that.
So we offer deep impressions, but also vaguely concerned congratulations to the entire CS:GO player base. Good work. You have created both a game and an ancient story. Thanks also to Steam Charts for the statistics provided. If you can imagine yourself competing against a highly skilled CS:GO community, you probably need our CS:GO ranking guide. You can also help yourself with our CS:GO console commands guide. Alternatively, if you want to play a single-player shooter for the next 50 millennia, we recommend choosing something from our list of the best FPS games on PC. It can be easier with friends though, so be sure to check out our best multiplayer games guide.
Source : PC Gamesn
