{"id":8335,"date":"2011-09-27T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8335"},"modified":"2018-07-18T18:20:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T18:20:54","slug":"counter-strike-still-tops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/counter-strike-still-tops\/","title":{"rendered":"Counter-Strike Still Most Played on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10637\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10637\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/counter_strike_source-S.jpg\" alt=\"The latest version of Counter-Strike wasn't enough to wean players off of the classic version.\" width=\"283\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The latest version of Counter-Strike wasn&#8217;t enough to wean players off of the classic version.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SEPT. 27, 2011 \u2022 Valve Corporation told Develop magazine that the most played game on Steam is the original Counter-Strike released 11 years ago, not newer titles such as Call of Duty: Black Ops. The Source-engined update of Counter-Strike is the third most played game on Steam. Valve hopes to transition both communities to a new title, Counter-Strike Global Offensive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: In studying PC game usage DFC has noted that the key to success in this market is longevity. Popular games get played for years and loyal users build a community together. Of course, this makes it extremely challenging to try and migrate an established community to a new product.\u00a0 It is much easier if a company already has some control over the community such as Valve has with Counter-Strike.\u00a0 However, for startups looking to tackle existing products it is a tough challenge and a major barrier to entry that must be carefully considered depending on the product.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEPT. 27, 2011 \u2022 Valve Corporation told Develop magazine that the most played game on Steam is the original Counter-Strike released 11 years ago, not newer titles such as Call of Duty: Black Ops. The Source-engined update of Counter-Strike is the third most played game on Steam. Valve hopes to transition both communities to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78,66],"tags":[84,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8335"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16550,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335\/revisions\/16550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}