Earlier today, anyone is trying to find or play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam he faced a strange surprise: the game was missing. Just gone.
He soon returned, but for a while, one of the largest video games on the planet had just risen and disappeared. His store page featured an “OOPS, SCUI!” message, and its number of competing players went through the floor.
As Pavel Djundik of SteamDB remarked, Counter Strike it wasn’t the only game affected, with a handful of other titles missing.
While Valve says Kotaku the disappearance was “just a hiccup on the backend”, let’s not ignore the fact Counter-Strike: Global Offensive worked every day since 2012 without a break. Maybe he just needed a morning off, to enjoy a cup of tea, to read a magazine, to gather his thoughts for a moment.