Another one bites de_dust.
Valve has launched Counter-Strike 2 as part of which it has mothballed Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the latter being arguably the most popular competitive game in the world and definitely the most popular on Steam. From CS2's first announcement Valve has been clear that this was the next step for the series, going so far as to name CS2"the CS:GO killer" in its Twitter bio, though that playful phrase has since been replaced.
CS:GO has been retired, it hasn't been completely wiped from existence. There is a mostly-official way to keep playing it. CS:GO is playable as a"beta" build within the Steam Properties menu for CS2, where it's labeled unceremoniously as"csgo_demo_viewer- 1.38.7.9." You can't play competitive matchmaking, but you can play offline with bots.
You can understand why, with the game now operating on an unimaginable scale, Valve would rather be a little bit brutal than try to please everyone. Fact is the developer bent over backwards to ensure that the features that mattered in CS:GO made the transition to CS2, mainly when it comes to weapon and agent skins, because the loss of in-game items would have proven incredibly unpopular, maybe even untenable.
That comfort and familiarity, the sheer time spent, not to mention the money invested, makes CS:GO feel meaningful to players. Even if every single aspect of CS2 was an improvement over CS:GO, and that is far from a given, it cannot on day one replace that connection with longstanding players.
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