Valve’s support for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive came to an end officially with the entrance of the new year. This means that the game will remain in its current version forever.
CS:GO was released over a decade ago and it rose on to be one of the most prolific FPS titles in gaming history, but Valve will not provide any update on the title any further. This is because the development team will now move ahead with Counter-Strike 2.
However, players who still want to launch and play the game will still be able to do the game via the beta branch in the Steam library. In the meantime, players will still experience CS:GO but without multiplayer.
It won’t have many more issues, but when Valve makes updates to Counter-Strike’s coordinator, many of the features won’t work with CS: GO’s current build will begin to fail.
“Certain functionality that relies on compatibility with the Game Coordinator (e.g., access to inventory) may degrade and/or fail,” Valve explained in its CS:GO legacy explainer.
Meanwhile, when CS2’s highly anticipated arrival happened in September 2023, it did with many game-breaking issues and bugs, so much so that Valve has been spending the last few months reworking them.
Players still turned to CS:GO without issues during the period but that avenue may not be opened for too long because the game will crumble when its base features are update with CS2.
CS:GO is one of the greatest shooter games in history, which has seen generations of competitive players and exposed many others to the FPS genre.
In May 2023, Stats site SteamCharts recorded a peak of 1,117,517 players, although a third of this number has been lost since CS2’s launch.
Now, with Valve’s decision, the developers can focus fully on updating CS2 consistently in 2024 after a flurry of fixes arrived throughout November and December.
