CS:GO Experienced Decline in Player Numbers Since Valorant Released Globally!

Counter Strike: Global Offensive, one of the popular games owned by Valve Corporation, started to find a bit of a problem since Valorant was released globally. Based on statistics, the number of CS:GO players has decreased.

The presence of Valorant is allegedly one of the factors why there is a downward trend in the number of players in the CS:GO game.

There was a decrease of 10%

Based on data from Steam Charts, CS:GO recorded an average number of players of 857 thousand players in April with peak players was in the lift of 1.3 million players.

Meanwhile, in May 2021, the average number of players was in the range of 768 thousand players. Down 88 thousand players from the previous month. Also in that month, peak players CS:GO is around 1.1 million players.

If you look further, there is a 10% decrease between April-May 2021. Of course, this number is not very good for CS:GO where currently many people are in their respective homes.

Valorant is allegedly one of the causes

If you have to guess, the presence of Valorant as Riot Games’ newest FPS game is the reason why there is a decline in the number of players in CS:GO. The reason is, the report opened by Riot said that there were around 3 million players online when the Closed Beta period opened.

Not only that, presence streamer also the reason why Valorant had such a fantastic number of players when it was released globally in early June 2021. The high number of players from Valorant is not that surprising.

The reason is, Riot Games embeds many elements that are quite identical to CS:GO to Valorant. Starting from the weapon purchasing system and a fairly familiar map. On the one hand, Valorant presents a very tactical gameplay with minimalistic graphics.

Have you played Valorant? What do you think about this game?