Original Counter-Strike co-creator Minh "Gooseman" Le left Valve all the way back in 2006, and in the years since, his views on the legendary FPS series and its historic endurance in the PC market have changed significantly.
The original Half-Life: Counter-Strike launched alllllllll the way back in 2000 - that's 26 years ago for my fellow English majors - and yet, the current version, Counter-Strike 2, is consistently the most played game on Steam, and by a pretty massive margin according to the Steam Charts. GR+ sister publication Edge Magazine pointed this fact out to Gooseman in an interview for issue #418, and he didn't take a lot of credit for helping kickstart such an enormously successful franchise.
