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CS is like chess. Perfect and timeless. 6000 hours over 12 years of non-stop queueing competitive
Counter Strike Source was like chess if you ask me. In CS GO they added this gambling system, which made the game less attractive for me
gambling? interesting. i just play because I don't know where my mom's money is
CS is extremely popular outside of North America (also in NA). It's basically been played nonstop with an ever growing fanbase since 1998. The rest of the games are all multiplayer titles with competitive ranking systems. Apex and Dota are free.
These games have infinite replay value and people like them. That's all a top ranking game is. Many have tried to replicate these successes and failed (in recent memory, Concord). There have been a huge number of good games coming out too. But they're not somthing you put 2,000 hours into with your friends.
There'a a big element of the snowball effect too. Big games attract more players than small games. Esports are a lot like normal sports in that regard. People make new sports pretty often but Football, Basketball, Baseball etc have been around for 100+ years so they have large communities and social relevance. If I asked my buds to go out for a match of "whipple stick", my new favorite sport, they'd just laugh at me.
On the other hand, new games CAN become huge if they're built well enough. A few of the top 10 were released less than 10 years ago, which says a lot about how these "main games" DO change over time. I think Deadlock will get up there after a few years of polishing.
because they run on everything and are free
in asia you are kinda limited to games that are popular. many games with moderate popularity in the west will have nobody playing them here and you can't get a match.
and they definitely love "free and runs on my computer"
You can play something like dota with people on a very basic computer and okayish connection. You'll always find matches too.
I'm in my 40s and I've been playing counterstrike since I was in my 20s. I play other games briefly but anytime i'm bored I still hop on CS. It's a habit like checking your locks 3 times or taking your clothes off to poop
Buddy... What?
It's a habit like licking the bottom of your shoes when you get home.
They're just referring to normal habits we all do like checking your oven for the family of mice you let live there before leaving for work or brushing your teeth one tooth at a time while watching the Flintstones in a language you don't understand. We all do it.
Yea like moving all the food on the top shelf of your fridge to the bottom and moving everything up shelf by shelf every morning or making sure you vacuum your walls properly. Standard stuff.
You don't have a poop knife?
That's disgusting. I only have a toe knife.
That's a reddit thing.
There are no poop knives in the fediverse
Poop dessert fork will have to do, then.
Gotta make sure everything is locked, helps with pooping.
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The older I get, the less I want to learn new competitive games because I just don't have time anymore. It's just nice to go back to something familiar every now and then.
People like that CS doesn't change. It just eventually gets visual upgrades with new engine versions. You can hop on CS, and know the exact game play you're going to get.
Also, custom CS servers for extremely different game play are a thing.
Dropping in and not having to get back up to speed with a game has become more important to my gaming life than I wish it was. I don't have time to change it. Even minimal-story games like Valheim or Elite: Dangerous have become too cumbersome because I have to spend a bunch of time figuring out what I did last, what I need to gather, and what I need to build to progress. I can either go mine/sail iron in Valheim, I can hope my pirate hunter ship and pirate activity are close to where I last docked... Or I can just play some basic game and take 5 minutes to get up to speed instead of spending the first 45 minutes recalibrating my memory. It makes a difference when you might only play 3 times a week and have less than 2 hours left. I'm hoping next year goes better, but for now, it's battle Royale, team match, or racing games.
Obviously, there's a massive competitive attractiveness for some people to games like PUBG and CS as well. But it's not all trigger-finger addicts. Some of us are just trying to have an OK time, not the best time.
E:D doesn't really have them, but valheim and other information heavy games tend to have writeable signs. Since early modded minecraft, I have utilized these signs to communicate with my future self; writing down what I'm doing at the time and what my major goals are before logging off for the night is just part of my gaming routine now. Takes me a few seconds of reading to trigger the flow of action again. When games don't have signs, I use a notepad .txt file to track what I was up to, or failing that I'll save a note in my phone.
I would never have finished factorio or satisfactory without text files and signage. I would never have finished most large minecraft modpacks without signage. Organization skills rock.
It's free to play, there's a huge market for skins, and some gambling addiction to go with it. The perfect storm.
It's also a very solid game. (the same can't be said for every game on that list but it's true for many of them)
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Most of them are good games the others are played by people who only play those games
Those games are played by a demographic that only plays that game, or close enough. They'd consider themselves a Dota player before they consider themselves a video game player in general. These games aren't played exclusively by that type of person, but a large part of their audience is the type of player who just plays that game. I'm having trouble digging it up, but the person who created Steamspy a number of years ago, before privacy laws made public profiles opt-in and interfered with its ability to collect data, found that the majority of Steam accounts only had a single game in their libraries.
That kinda explains the dissciation gamers and game makers (studio,publisher etc ) have with each other today. And the publishers continuus trying at live service games. I imagine similar thing is happening with consoles. I personaly knew it was a thing with FIFA but i never knew it was so widespread ( fifa and sports game are kinda special or at least i thought they were ). Maybe those pepole bought one game a year additionaly sometimes if it was aired often enough as ad on tv.
That actually explains so much shit we see today , like online subcsriptions on PlayStation and xbox. If the majority ( or large enough minority ) will play one game only making them pay for online is a goddam goldmine. F* i would probably do it if was ceo of PlayStation and actually knew the stats ( and Obviusly if they were favorable ).
20 years ago, we paid for online because it was better than what you got for free on PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo. Now an online subscription is probably one of several reasons that people are moving to PC.
I'd consider accounts with only a single game most likely to be bot or cheater accounts. I wonder what the percentage would be.
I'm having trouble digging it up, but the person who created Steamspy a number of years ago, before privacy laws made public profiles opt-in and interfered with its ability to collect data, found that the majority of Steam accounts only had a single game in their libraries.
A lot of those are going to be alts people made to evade game/server bans or smurf.
I may or may not have made 10 accounts that only had Garry's Mod on them circa 2010.
That may be true, but you can also see, for instance, that there are a ton of Chinese users who only play Dota 2 or only play PUBG. You'll see the percentage of Simplified Chinese users ebb and flow with a similar cadence to just those two games.
CS probably has some sort of skin money-laundering bots in it. I would see it more as a financial vector and less of a game if that were true.
Depends on how you look at it. CS is the only thing I’ve been playing after years of gaming and I think it will stay that way due to the simplicity and the familiarity of the game.
Because Fortnite isn't on Steam. Super sure if it was, it would have usurped CS for the top spot.
Keep in mind that Counter-Strike has been a massively popular competitive shooter with tournaments and the biggest pro scene in the West for decades. It's had years to cultivate its massive following. Most of the other games on the top 10 are babies by comparison to CS's old man status.
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Oh? Warframe is finally off the top 10?
Admittedly, it's probably been off it for awhile. I just haven't really been paying attention to top 10s in a long while.
I wouldn't know. I've never played it. It's not really my kind of game
It spent many years around spot 7. It has since fallen off.
Which is kind of funny because that corresponds inversely with the quality of the game lol. The game director changed and they have been killing it every since
it's a really good game, and is heavily supported by Valve to keep it good
cheating seems like an issue but i imagine that's always been the case
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