Valve officially leaves CS:GO behind

While Valve replaced CS:GO with Counter-Strike 2 a few months ago, the previous game has remained accessible through Steam. As of now though, CS:GO's official matchmaking servers are now offline and Valve has warned of future feature degradation, such as access to the inventory in-game. 

Counter-Strike 2 has entirely replaced CS:GO, even taking over its previous Steam Store page listing. Moving forward, Valve will only offer official matchmaking services in CS2, although you could still use alternative solutions to play competitive games in CS:GO.

In an update to Valve's support page, the company has added that “After January 1, 2024 the game will still be available, but certain functionality that relies on compatibility with the Game Coordinator (e.g., access to inventory) may degrade and/or fail.”

As of yesterday, Valve will no longer be working on CS:GO. The game's final build is still available as a legacy version but will receive no support. While the player base was initially upset by this, leading to a bunch of negative user reviews on the CS2 Steam page, in recent weeks, things have improved considerably with the game now showing a ‘mostly positive' recent reviews score.

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KitGuru Says: CS:GO is officially dead, although the game can still be revisited if you are a particularly big fan of the older game. Still, with the game being left behind, this does open up the door for new exploits to be discovered, which could lead to a rise in cheaters on public servers or private matchmaking services. 

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