{"id":212092,"date":"2021-03-10T01:57:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T01:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/counter-strike-global-offensive-removed-steam\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T01:57:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T01:57:52","slug":"counter-strike-global-offensive-briefly-disappears-from-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/03\/10\/counter-strike-global-offensive-briefly-disappears-from-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Briefly Disappears From Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Valve’s ineffable\u00a0Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/em><\/strong> turned more than a few heads with worry last night. The popular title is one of the most-played games on Steam<\/a>,\u00a0boasting a\u00a0wildly stable professional circuit that has experienced a bit of drift during COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Yet the amateur competitive play of\u00a0Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/em><\/a> has continued its climb in popularity on the PC platform, posting consistent records for most concurrent players throughout the pandemic, while the professional North American region seems to destabilize with each passing week.\u00a0This exponential growth that Valve’s title continues to exhibit made the sudden events\u00a0of last night all the more curious.<\/p>\n

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Around midnight,\u00a0Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/em> was removed from Steam<\/a>. Multiple titles were included in the strange purge that saw databases not recognizing the titles as ever-existing, or that players were inside of the title. For those that were inside of a match, play continued as normal and the player base did not suffer from the sudden apparent deletion of the title. There was rampant speculation involving the apparent deletion of the Steam page for the title, however.<\/p>\n

Some\u00a0joked that it’s possible Valve had\u00a0finally removed every cheater from the CS:GO<\/em><\/a>, or that\u00a0CS:GO\u00a0<\/em>has turned into\u00a0CS:GONE<\/em>. The reality is less fanciful, as it tends to be: an alleged Steam API bug removed multiple titles from the store last night, and were slowly re-added over the following two hours. The only public-facing statement made by Valve regarding the mishap comes from the consistently facetious\u00a0Counter-Strike<\/em> official Twitter account, where it uploaded a GIF from “The Wolf of Wall-Street.”<\/p>\n