why does Valorant have more players than cs2?

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ajwinner

Valorant: 28m https://www.dexerto.com/valorant/how-many-people-play-valorant-player-count-tracker-2022-1668158/
Cs2: 24m https://www.counter-strike.net/

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better game. next

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XtraChrxs

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what answers are you expecting here

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kid_named_finger

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Probably because it has an anti-cheat that isn’t complete dog shit.

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lowfive

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I bet you that due to CS prime there are far less people with multiple accounts in CS. and millions in valorant

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AutismCanBeCured

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An estimation vs actually verified amount. But still close

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ajwinner

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Nope
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-12/how-influencers-helped-riot-games-turn-valorant-into-a-gen-z-hit?srnd=premium&leadSource=reddit_wall

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AutismCanBeCured

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Why do americans always come with the most dogshit sources possible

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ajwinner

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Why did Finland team up with hitler during ww2?

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uwukitten

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😭😭😭😭

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s0ber

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yo fam

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geospliced

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Going for K.O right off the bat. tho i can't say much about it because...

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KaedeTsuneta

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atleast you guys found the light

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inlucid

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damn

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KssS

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straight up m*rdered him

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AutismCanBeCured

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To get our land back from the Russians, something USA wouldn't even dare to try

But why did USA go to massacre innocent people around the world?

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ayoooooo

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Atpdel

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Chill bro

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Marhuee

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kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

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moomoomoomeadows

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me, at the valorant fan website: why is valorant better than its rival?

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ajwinner

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its just facts, sorry kid

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KaedeTsuneta

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Then entire world plays it instead of just Europe

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Stratos

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More female players and not being an EU centric games is what most likely help this numbers other than a working anti-cheat.

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PoohShiesty

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CS is dead in every region besides EU
Premier MM is full of cheaters above 10k
Pro matches are boring as fuck right now
Valve doesn't give a fuck either

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monitar

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last month tracker tracked 16m players, where does the extra 12m come from ? China?

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Er3ngenes1s

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more female players and Gen Z audience

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dino_zwei

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The only thing CS got better than Val is the AWP

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It's hard to tell what time period that valorant number is. (maybe because im not making a bloomberg account)

CSGO in september 2023 has 26.4m unique players
and in october 2023 it had 31.46m unique players.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16QeEjwY39INiVnji75yfQotMW9eqqfpUl47rnKhQ7jY/edit#gid=380683446

Both games are probably achieving similar numbers now that valorant is released in china.
and hopefully both continue to provide healthy competition.

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DannyGT

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To be as objective as possible... right now CS has like the worst possible optimization and Valorant can be run with pretty much any PC... can't play a game on 10fps now, can you? So first things first Valve.

Next up, just because both games are 5v5 FPS doesn't mean they're any similar at all, especially if we're talking about GO (or CS2 without Valorant-ish stuff) - to put it in proper words:

Valorant is more Gen Z and "user" friendly while CS is, or at least was pain in the ass when we're talking about competitive gameplay... that's no disrespect to any game, but Valorant can be taken casually and be played as a game to chill, CS on the other hand.. more often than not is "hardcore" (relative term, of course) competitive game, starting from spray pattern, to game enviroment in general to everything else...

Some stuff is also regional based, non-EU (professional) CS is pretty much dead... without proper regional teams, tournaments etc you're not really attracting new players... back in the day with ESL Pro League online and divisions for each region you had something to watch... nowadays it's EU or bust...

Take it as a bold statement, but.. Valorant players are mostly playing to have fun, CS players are here to sweat.

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ionlyHave1Zuni

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Idk what valorant u r playing mfs do NOT play for fun

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DannyGT

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Can't say that I agree, I'm not saying that there're no competitive players... I'm saying that with valorant graphics (being way more colorful etc), easier spray pattern (fact) and overall difference in the gameplay it's way easier to attract casual players who play from time to time to chill than it is for CS..

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laifu

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VAL has popular gamemodes for casuals as unrated and swiftplay have way shorter que times than unranked CS comp, atleast from my exp, of course there's an audience that would rather not deal with the stress of a comp match

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Corny

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both games are fun Im just trash at both

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zongolodongo

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cs2 sucks, I used to play csgo but cs2 is just a worse version with shiny graphics