Is CS:GO the new minecraft?

[I_love_desk]

Finding the number of units sold for CS:GO is difficult since there's no definitive statistic, but this reddit post states that the month of May 2014 had unique players playing CS:GO, which puts my personal estimate of total sales at approximately 6 million units.
Meanwhile, Mojang directly tells us that Minecraft has sold 16.8 million units.

Does CS:GO cater to a competitive demographic that has a lot of overlap with MCGamer? Yes.
Will CS:GO surpass Minecraft in terms of sales and cultural impact? Unlikely.

In terms of what is the better game though, I would argue CS:GO. Minecraft is catered for children or people who are going to play it casually, whereas a comp CS:GO match is all serious and balanced.

 

[Col_StaR]

In terms of what is the better game though, I would argue CS:GO. Minecraft is catered for children or people who are going to play it casually, whereas a comp CS:GO match is all serious and balanced.

I think they're different in a larger sense, though. Minecraft more of a sandbox game where creation and survival is the focus, whilst Counterstrike is a competitive round-based game that puts an emphasis on PvP gameplay. For those reasons, each game caters to their respective demographics, so comparing the two would be comparing apples and oranges. I like both apples and oranges, but I wouldn't eat an apple for the same reason I would eat an orange, and vice versa.

I think that we need to figure out proper definitions in this comparison. When people state, "Minecraft" in this thread, are they referring to Minecraft (i.e. Creative and Survival modes) or MCSG?

 

[Ceroria]

I still don't know what CS:GO really is. Is it Counterstrike in Minecraft?

CS:GO is simply a Counterstrike game created in 2012. It stands for Counter Strike: Global Offensive, and has nothing to do with Minecraft. However they can be related in a way because a good portion of the community plays it frequently.

 

[Chris]

I still don't know what CS:GO really is. Is it Counterstrike in Minecraft?

CS:GO is simply a Counterstrike game created in 2012. It stands for Counter Strike: Global Offensive, and has nothing to do with Minecraft. However they can be related in a way because a good portion of the community plays it frequently.

CS:GO has a better community tbh.

 

[Sim_Man]

fifa 15 m8s

 

[BlazeMaster]

Cs has a lot of backstory, and you can not really compare the two games. It is a great shooter, and Minecraft is a great, well, whatever catagory Minecraft falls into. Most people outgrow Minecraft after a while and move on to find different games, usually ending up with LoL, CS GO, and soemtimes WoW. Just depends on the person.

 

[zCrits_]

League of Legends>Minecraft and CS:GO

 

[MCOnThePCAndrew]

.-.

My reaction

 

[Ex0dUs101]

CS:GO Is good apart from there's so many Russians that yell at their microphone that after playing it for a week you could probably speak the language fluently

 

[Mamiamato24]

Just because a lot of people play the game, doesn't mean it's the new Minecraft. Both games have little to nothing in common, and people simply got bored of playing MC and moved on to other games, as have I with LoL (I still play MC infrequently).

It's like saying "Oh Tetris is the new Minecraft because it sold 143 million copies"

 

[Rhino1928]

Cs has a lot of backstory, and you can not really compare the two games. It is a great shooter, and Minecraft is a great, well, whatever catagory Minecraft falls into. Most people outgrow Minecraft after a while and move on to find different games, usually ending up with LoL, CS GO, and soemtimes WoW. Just depends on the person.

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