Valve ends support for Counter Strike Global offensive

With the release of Counter Strike 2, Valve last year shifted matchmaking servers to the new game from Global Offensive. The devs have now officially ended support for CS:GO, meaning there will be no updates to the current build of CS:GO.

For the time being, players will be able to launch CSGO legacy from the beta option and play without multiplayer. However, as the Game Coordinator is updated by Valve, more and more compatibility issued will lead to make the old game unplayable. It is now just a matter of time, players see CS:GO become incompatible.

Valve said that certain functionality that relies on compatibility with the Game Coordinator, like accessing to inventory, may degrade and/or fail. As seen with the Steam client support for older Windows version, the company is moving forward.

With this, the era of CS:GO has finally come to an end. Many are sad that they will not be able to play the original CS:GO in future, even on community servers like CS 1.6 or source, unless Valve steps in and do something about it.

One thing is for sure that the game will go down as one of the greatest game in history over which many games were made with only few being able to rival Counter Strike in terms of popularity.

As for the game replacing Global Offensive, CS2 have received several criticisms since launch from casual players as well as pros for various bugs, gameplay changes, false bans, exploits and mostly cheaters which are rampant despite reportedly having a new anti-cheat.

Valve is currently listening and working to improve the game with patches every day, as it is currently the number one priority. However, the new game is yet to reach the glory as its predecessor made for itself in the last decade.