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I'm just a little surprised there's not more pushback considering that Valve just did with CS:GO and CS2 almost exactly what Blizzard did with Overwatch and Overwatch 2.
CS:GO literally disappeared from my Steam Library and was replaced with CS2. I get that CS:GO's servers were already down, but it still feels wild to just wholesale remove it from people's libraries this many years later. I felt similarly about Overwatch 2, but Blizzard caught a lot more heat for that than I've seen from the Valve fan community so far.
I know CS:GO has been Free to Play for a long time, but seriously, this is kind of a big fuck you to any archivists who wanted to keep a copy around for history's sake.
Wasn't CS: GO free and OW1 paid? That's a pretty big difference if they took away something you paid for vs took away something you got for free.
CS:GO went free around when PUBG came out. Before that, it was a paid game. I'm one of the many who paid for it.