Since CS:GO hit the market in 2012, it has never been able to break through Dota 2’s all time concurrent player record. That is, until now. On Friday, CS:GO hit 1.3 million concurrent players, its highest of all time, narrowly edging out Dota 2’s previous record of just under 1.3 million.
Thanks to a little help from the world-wide quarantine, gaming numbers have been shattering records recently, and CS:GO’s rise in concurrent players is no different.
Dota 2 initially broke its record back in March of 2016, hitting 1,291,328 players. Since then, the game has maintained an average of about 500,000 players. CS:GO on the other hand, has been steadily rising since the end of last year, before breaking one million players for the first time in March.
CS:GO hit a peak of 1,308,963 players on Friday, according to the Steam & Game Stats page. Dota 2 had the second highest peak of the day, with 784,907 concurrent players. The highest peak of all time belongs to Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds, who somehow managed to have 3.2 million people playing back in January of 2018.
The two games have been Steam’s most popular titles over the last thirty days. According to the Steam Charts, CS:GO has averaged over 800,000 concurrent players, while Dota 2 has averaged over 470,000 over the same period of time.
It will be interesting to see how well CS:GO fares during the rise of Riot Games’ VALORANT. Expected to compete with one another, CS:GO hasn’t seen any sort of decline since Riot released the closed beta version of their newest title nearly two weeks ago.
Sources: Steam & Game Stats, Steam Charts
