Earlier today, anyone trying to find or play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam ran into a weird surprise: the game was missing. Just…gone.
It soon came back, but for a little while there one of the biggest video games on the planet had just up and disappeared. Its store page presented an āOOPS, SORRY!ā message, and its concurrent player count went through the floor.
As SteamDBās Pavel Djundik noted, Counter-Strike wasnāt the only game affected, with a handful of other titles disappearing as well.
While Valve tells Kotaku the disappearance was ājust a hiccup on the backendā, letās not discount the fact Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has worked every day since 2012 without a break. Maybe it just needed a morning off, enjoy a cup of tea, read a magazine, collect its thoughts for a moment.
