For years and years, Counter Strike: Global Offensive was one of the top games on Steam, with hundreds of thousands of regular players. Typically it sat just behind DotA 2 with a few thousand games in between them. It seemed like that was the rough maximum players we could expect to see on any one Steam game. And then Battlegrounds came along and blew everyone out of the water.
Although CS:GO is still one of the most popular games around, it may be that in an upcoming update we'll see it become something more akin to the competition in order to regain some of that top-tier popularity sheen it's lost to its younger rival.
Although unconfirmed in an official capacity, datamining of CS:GO files has dug up what appears to be some sort of survival mode, which in an expanded map setting, would make the game very much like Battlegrounds, effectively giving CS:GO it's very own Battle Royale mode. Much of the hints for this game mode comes from patches that have been released over the past year, introducing new and currently unused, items, weapons and features.
They all reference a survival mode, which would have crate drops, parachutes, combat areas, expanded open regions and more. That sounds an awful lot like a battle royale mode to us.
Do you guys think Valve throwing its hat in that arena is a good call and can it compete with existing giants like Battlegrounds and Fortnite?
