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CS2 <\/em>has finally managed to surpass its predecessor, Global Offensive<\/em>, by cracking its all-time player record with 1.825 million concurrent players. Valve’s flagship shooter continues to rise in popularity, though some players think foul play is present and that CS2 <\/em>might not be all that great.<\/p>

SteamDB shows<\/a>. This was in the making for a while now as CS2<\/em>‘s player pool continuously rose over the past few months, picking up the pace again after a slowdown by the game’s less-than-stellar state on release. However, while many players are rejoicing that Counter-Strike <\/em>still very much has life left in it, not everyone seems to be happy, especially the dedicated CS:GO <\/em>players who are now crying foul play and saying that it’s bots, not real people, fuelling CS2<\/em>‘s numbers.<\/p>

CS2 <\/em>first dropped in September of 2023 and saw a decline in players before starting to climb back up. Image via Valve<\/figcaption><\/figure>

“Yeah, these CS2<\/em> fanboys are really annoying, those aren\u2019t player numbers, those are bot numbers to farm cases,” wrote one user in a post to the CS2 <\/em>subreddit<\/a> which called folks to celebrate this new milestone. “So you mean all-bot record,” another wrote, with many parroting the same sentiment.<\/p>

What is undoubtable, however, is that Counter-Strike 2 <\/em>has never had more players. Its activity graphs are stable and do not fluctuate wildly as opposed to games that actually do have a majority of bots in them, such as PAYDAY 3 <\/em>and

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