Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Was Accidentally Removed From Steam Yesterday

How unfortunate.

Yesterday, for no apparent reason, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive completely disappeared from Steam. It wasn’t downloadable, it wasn’t playable. And in a first since launch, its playerbase plummeted.

And, according to SteamDB’s Pavel Djundik, it wasn’t the only one.

CS:GO isn't just the only app that disappeared from the Steam Store. Something went wrong on Valve's end there, when they disappeared a few appids showed up in a store api (0, 160, 202) that shouldn't have.

List of affected apps: https://t.co/4nDGgWEtnH
— xPaw (@thexpaw) March 9, 2021

Valve, however, has made a statement on the matter, calling the issue “just a hiccup on the backend”. Still, it’s highly unusual to see a game like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive suddenly become completely inaccessible without warning like that. CS:GO has been available in perpetuity since its launch, barring scheduled downtime for maintenance.

It’s all just very unlike Steam.

Source: Kotaku

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