​According to SuperData's Digital Games and Interactive Media in Review for 2017, Counter-Strike had another strong year. The game ranked third in revenue among all pay-to-play PC Games in 2017 and was sixth among esports titles in viewership.

SuperData ranked CS:GO third behind PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS ($714 million) and Overwatch ($382 million) with $341 million in revenue. League of Legends had the largest revenue among free-to-play PC games at $2.1 billion.

It’s funny when I hear people say csgo is dying, during the major last weekend the finals had 1.85 million people watching (on twitch+eleague tv). That’s excluding the Chinese viewers... — Parker Riggs  (@PR1cs_) January 30, 2018

Counter-Strike also ranked sixth among esports games and their viewership, according to the report, with an average of 43 million unique monthly viewers. League of Legends (157 million) led the way, followed by PUBG, Hearthstone, Overwatch and Dota 2.





It's important to note the graph marks total viewership in titles that also have esports competitions, not pure esports viewership.





It's also worth mentioning that the games esport's scene has seen some spectacular numbers recently. The grand finals of the ELEAGUE Major: Boston on Sunday broke a record for most concurrent viewers on Twitch, with 1.3 million.

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Cover photo courtesy of Valve. Graph courtesy of Super Data