CS: Source records 13-year peak activity

Counter-Strike: Source has seen a massive influx in players over the last 24 hours and the game has recorded 13-year peak player activity at 56,987 players. The game's highest concurrent players count still dates back to 2012 when over 61,000 players played together. Counter-Strike: Source was released in 2004, making it over 20 years old today. The community stands divided on their reasoning for the 20-year old title's player spike.

While some associate the influx of players with the recent Garry's Mod development where Valve greenlit Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 to be bundled into the former. This meant that players were no longer required to own these titles separately to enjoy community content in Garry's Mod.

A few others speculate that the new Counter-Strike 2 update which began the AnimGraph 2 migration, might have induced nostalgia through the new first-person animations. Some have compared these new first-person weapon animations, especially the deagle to their animations in Counter-Strike: Source, hinting that players are going back to the 20-year old title to delve deeper into these comparisons.