--- title: Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening... description: Valve has announced that there will be no macOS version of Counter-Strike 2 due to the lack of players on Mac. Mac users can still access a legacy version of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/valve-says-counter-strike-2-for-macos-not-happening-because-there-aren-t-enough-players-on-mac-to-ju-4xhf6mgjx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because There Aren't Enough Players on Mac to Justify It | daily.dev og:description: Valve has announced that there will be no macOS version of Counter-Strike 2 due to the lack of players on Mac. Mac users can still access a legacy version of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/valve-says-counter-strike-2-for-macos-not-happening-because-there-aren-t-enough-players-on-mac-to-ju-4xhf6mgjx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4Xhf6MgJX.png og:image:alt: Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because There Aren't Enough Players on Mac to Justify It og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because There Aren't Enough Players on Mac to Justify It **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 50 upvotes · 18 comments ## Summary Valve has announced that there will be no macOS version of Counter-Strike 2 due to the lack of players on Mac. Mac users can still access a legacy version of CS:GO, but certain functionality may degrade after January 1, 2024. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@fabooy961** · 13 upvotes > Maybe mac users would start playing, if there was be an official Apple Counterstrike Mouse for ~ € 1500 ? **@loooptoools** · 4 upvotes > It is really annoying, this mentality amongst game devs. If they made better games available for Mac more would play (and probably abandon windows) and the same holds true for Linux I believe! **@khontrol** · 4 upvotes > Lol who plays on Mac 🤣 **@sencer808** · 1 upvotes > Nobody releases games for mac, so thats why no macbook users playing games! **@hedanielld** · 1 upvotes > If it was an option to play it on the Mac I would. --- Tags: [#gaming](https://daily.dev/tags/gaming), [#mac](https://daily.dev/tags/mac), [#vulkan](https://daily.dev/tags/vulkan) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/valve-says-counter-strike-2-for-macos-not-happening-because-there-aren-t-enough-players-on-mac-to-ju-4xhf6mgjx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because There Aren't Enough Players on Mac to Justify It","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/valve-says-counter-strike-2-for-macos-not-happening-because-there-aren-t-enough-players-on-mac-to-ju-4xhf6mgjx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/valve-says-counter-strike-2-for-macos-not-happening-because-there-aren-t-enough-players-on-mac-to-ju-4xhf6mgjx"},"datePublished":"2023-10-11T01:46:54.891Z","dateModified":"2024-02-12T02:12:34.841Z","description":"Valve has announced that there will be no macOS version of Counter-Strike 2 due to the lack of players on Mac. 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