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Comment by Ferret7446

3 months ago

I hate to break it to you, but CS is not relevant. How much money do you think it makes, compared to recent top sellers or live service/mobile games?

About $1B/year.

CS:GO is the highest grossing game on Steam, according to some sources, all agree its top 5.

Why is that irrelevant?

  • Also consistently the most played game on Steam by a fair margin. That doesn't necessarily make it the most played PC game since some big titles like League and Fortnite aren't on Steam, but it's at least close.

  • Raid shadow legends is also estimated to make around $1B/year, and there are many such mobile games.

    Roblox made $3.6B in 2024. Fornite makes $3-5B/year for the past ~decade.

    Genshin Impact is estimated to make ~$10B this year.

    Not only in revenue, but all of the above have way more cultural impact/awareness too.

    The pond is very big, but it's easy to miss that if you're in a bubble in that pond.

    • CS is consistently the top played game on Steam every year. Are you saying Steam isn't relevant? That's quite the claim to be making.

    • You didn't know what you were talking about and got caught in it.

      That's fine! I was surprised too.

      Something I've learned with age is it's better to have a laugh together than throw out more cover.

I dont give the slightest of shits about CS but have you seen the figures? It's doing absurdly well. In addition the separate economy for skins peaked at 6 billion recently.

thats not irrelevant