Sup fools,

I think so many people still play counter strike cause its counter strike. But i dont think it will be there for long. Cause ive asked some people if they wanted to play counter strike and they didnt know what it was. im scared for the future.

Not sure about CS:S, or whether this goes for the entire Counterstrike player base, but 2 LAN party places around here keep the game running on at least 30+ computers each, maybe thats contributing to the times?

I think cs is so big because of the versatility. Even i enjoy abit of cs, though only gun games. And with ppl i know :)

it's a popular mouse'n'keyboard online FPS that runs on pentium 4 processors

No other game (that I currently know of at least) allowed me to play a game where shooting the floor under my enemies sends them to a pit of death, or surf geometry in a weird fashion whilst killing foes in mid-air, or even going through trap-maps and many other wacky things like the good old gun game. 

Variety of maps thanks to mod communities are one of the key reasons for this, as well as the fact that a lot of people love to go back and play a classic game of CT's vs T's from time to time.  I also go back from time to time for either a gun game or hopefully find a Breakfloor server.  There are many classic games that never get boring for a lot of people and Counter-Strike is just another one of those.

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It's just a really solid game. It runs great on a ton of computers, Valve has kept it updated and the userbase is huge so new maps are coming out all the time. Most games don't have that kind of mod support, so I doubt anything's going to measure up to it for a long time.

It's easy to get into, incredibly difficult to master, has few means of persistence outside of your own skill level, has a dedicated community of players that will consistently kick your ass whilst simultaneously teaching you something new about the game, and it's easily one of the simplest games to mod and has dozens of variations and game types as a result.

I don't like Counter Strike. It's just not any fun.

low system requirements and because a rather large community of players decided that that was their game and don't play anything else, at least MP wise.

It runs on even crappy computers. And speaking from personal experience only, it just feels really tight. I can't help but base the feel of other FPS' on how CS feels.