CS: GO broke its record for popularity seven years after the release

Today, the online shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) broke its popularity record - more than 900 were in the game

thousands of people at the same time. But the game was released in August 2012, which means a little more than seven years ago.

According to Steam's digital distribution service, the peak number of CS: GO players was 901,681 players. At the time of publication, 825,572 people are playing an online shooter.

It is worth noting that the previous CS record:GO was installed on February 8th with 876 thousand users. Before this, the maximum figure for four years remained 850 thousand. The record was set in April 2016.

Recall that the mark of 19 million online users today also first surpassed Steam.