@dynamitecop said:
@Maroxad said:
What is more important than anything with CSGO is not how it stood up to its predecessors. But rather how it stood up to its direct competition. CSGO being the weakest link in the franchise means little when it still plays better than the other shooters the people were playing at the time.
Sure, the counterstrike community rejected it. And for a good reason. But that means little for the masses out there that CSGO attracted. Even if it didnt hold up to 1.6 it still plays better than Call of Duty, Battlefield or those popular f2p shooters you find on the net. The fact that it was still better than its competition, made people transition from those games to CS.
Trust me I get that, it's just infuriating that this version of the game, the most mechanically backwards version is the one which took off and grabbed mainstream attention... Not any of the other three superior game variants that had existed for the 13 years prior to CS:GO...
It's like Steam itself, I've been a Steam user since the 1.6 client beta in 2002 and on WON before it which is the network that predates Steam. For Steam to get from us low digit users for example my Steam ID is 0:1:7699 to 0:0:40000000 it took 8 years, it took 8 years to get approximately 80 million accounts because there are 0:1 and 0:0 variants of almost every account number, so for example there is a 0:1:40000000 and a 0:0:40000000 account. To get from 0:0:40000000 to 0:0:100000000 it took only 3 years, and to get from 0:0:100000000 to what is now 0:0:200000000 it only took slightly over 2 years.
So to get to 80 million from 0 it took 8 years, and to get from 80 million to 200 million it took only 3 years, and to get from 200 million to 400 million it only took slightly over 2 years. So there's been this exponential growth on the network that I can't explain, just as I can't explain for CS:GO. These games have always been a superior option to CoD, Battlefield etc, so I'm not understanding why like Steam is now, that CS:GO actually took off and the other games didn't to this level, where is all this growth coming from is my question.
Counterstrike was pretty mainstream even back then. But it didnt really appeal to younger gamers (partially because of the barrier of entry). And thus, most of the audience grew older with the game.
CSGO, came out at the right time, and then overhauled itself at the right time too. Streamers and youtubers are really popular these days. While also being the right ammount of pretty.
As for the exponential growth? It generally has to do with the nature of the service industry. Popular services grow exponentially. People get steam because their friends have steam, people get steam because the games they want is on steam, and publishers release their games on steam because the audience is on steam. It is a cycle which feeds itself. Granted, I am an engineer, not a businessman, so I could be wrong here.
Edit: This is rather similar to the concept of money businesses abide by. For any business, the hardest part by far is getting your first 100k-500k. This is because your business needs investors. After this initial curve, it gets exponentially easier because the name is established and additional revenue streams exist, streams which can not only be used to make the service more attractive, but gain further publicity via advertising.
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