The Deserved Downfall of Counter-Strike [video]

Counter-Strike 2 currently (4/5/2024) has 1,278,811 players and it's Friday in the middle of a workday.

The video claims the player count is down to 500,000. What gives?

The next most popular Steam game is DOTA2 with 617,923 players or half of what CS2 has. The facts don't seem to align with the claims made in this video.

Counter-Strike died for me when community servers became a side show with GO.

Beneath the financials and player stats lies immaterial, cultural capital. Skin gambling is anti-culture.

1.6 and Source still have some older communities left...