Why isn't CS 1.6 showing signs of declining players?

CS 1.6 was one of the most prestigious FPS titles in which the community valued the best days of their lives. At the launch of Valve's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, players didn't seem to enjoy the former title too much, as was customary in CS 1.6.

Although CS: GO has surpassed the graph of the number of Steam players, part of the player base still longs for the long and lost moments of gold from 1.6 days when things were different from now, which we end up experiencing in CS: GO and did not take a step back from the classic version of the same. Clan matches, being a legitimate thing in which the players used to show how good they were all due to the PUB matches in which we played on servers with 16 players on each side.

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With Warzone (the non-Steam version), culminating in his dominance in the scene where I saw him promote his community servers, having a lot of extra modes and stable servers, along with the most profitable fact that he didn't need steam to run, unlike the Global Offender. The additional plugins on the PUB servers that are powered by amxmodx create a lower player experience as they end up watching some exciting maps that are instilled with multimodes and in an attempt to give the servers adequate stability.

Things like changing servers with some extravagant stuff is something CS: GO servers lack, despite the fact that most of the player base has transitioned to Valve's dominant FPS title. Being a better skill-oriented person, in which communication between players was a different thing from today, where you can use radar information about enemies, CS 1.6 haunted its players, where keeping track of your enemies was a nightmare. , but so interesting and challenging, something that everyone loved about it.

If you're talking about shooting records, you may not be judging the same thing to be more precise than it is now if getting a one-touch kill could cost us some surreal training sessions. Spamming the walls or any penetrable surfaces really used to put the team in the driver's seat, which we barely notice in this current scene.

Modding was definitely one thing and most of it was available for free, but who knew what the future would hold for Counter-Strike Scene in the store that made us witness Skins, the agents came to the piece. Out of a group of 10 players, 5 of them would go absolutely for these pixels, ending up spending a lot of money on the steam market and this was eventually followed by the ranking system in which most players used to play. in an offer to be at the top of the rankings. This eventually led them to neglect the fun that can be squeezed out of clan / PUB games. Spamming the walls or any penetrable surfaces really used to put the team in the driver's seat, which we barely notice in this current scene.

Looking at the hardware scenario, in those early days, even a normal desktop with a mediocre configuration originally purchased for office work would allow us to get about 100 FPS at the highest resolution compared to its successor, which we barely know. would grant 50-60 FPS. Bottom line: you just saved a bunch of dollar bills.

On July 14, 2017, ESEA issued a statement stating their actions to completely shut down 1.6 servers.