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I’m just a little surprised there’s not more pushback considering that Valve just did with CS:GO and CS2 almost exactly what Blizzard did with Overwatch and Overwatch 2.
CS:GO literally disappeared from my Steam Library and was replaced with CS2. I get that CS:GO’s servers were already down, but it still feels wild to just wholesale remove it from people’s libraries this many years later. I felt similarly about Overwatch 2, but Blizzard caught a lot more heat for that than I’ve seen from the Valve fan community so far.
I know CS:GO has been Free to Play for a long time, but seriously, this is kind of a big fuck you to any archivists who wanted to keep a copy around for history’s sake.
Wasn’t CS: GO free and OW1 paid? That’s a pretty big difference if they took away something you paid for vs took away something you got for free.
CS:GO went free around when PUBG came out. Before that, it was a paid game. I’m one of the many who paid for it.
It released in 2012 as a paid product and was switched to Free to Play in December of 2018.
From Wikipedia:
An update released on December 6, 2018, made the game fully free to play. Users who had purchased the game prior to this update were automatically updated to “Prime” status and given modes that can drop cosmetic items. In addition, the new version introduced a battle royale mode called “Danger Zone”.
