With the official release of Valorant this week, many have flocked over to Riot Games’ new tactical bomb defusal first-person-shooter to give it a try. Many are doing more than that, pitching their competitive career on the success of the esports venture. First, it was Overwatch, but now, a slight shift is being observed in the CS:GO community too.
This idea is fueled by the series of announcements which have hit the press together with the release of Valorant, namely the following:
- Xeta retiring from CS:GO forValorant
- Hiko retires from CS:GO forValorant
- Skadoodle coming out of retirement for Valorant from CS:GO
Apart from the professionals, the community is also following the trend as during May, CS:GO player counts witnessed the first drop in players, though some are accounting this to the fact that summer is incoming anyways and that Valorant is free-to-play.
We’ll be developing this story as the year goes on; just bear in mind that the successes of Valorant and CS:GO will be inexplicably comparable.
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