CS:GO Player, Audience Numbers Drop Significantly
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive or CS:GO player numbers have been down 25 percent and viewership numbers down 37 percent over the past three months.
PC Gamers Ben Barrett notes that a look at player numbers on Steam reveals peak player numbers declining from a peak of 640,000 the Saturday before the last major, MLG Columbus, to 480,000.
From PC Gamer:
Purely on the audience front, there was a lot of competition for eyeballs this weekend. Along with the usual eSports butting of heads between all the large games, real-world sport had a bumper one too, with Wimbledon reaching its finals at the same time as the European football championship, a British F1 Grand Prix and the Tour De France all getting TV time. Note that all of these are in the same time-zone as the major. Summer Games Done Quick also reached its conclusion, with 100,000+ of its own Twitch viewership.
Barrett also points to the recent cheating and other scandals, along with a downturn in the skins economy, as having potentially turning some folks away.
- Aaron Goldstein, Gambling911.com
