{"id":6372,"date":"2018-12-09T23:40:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T23:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=6372"},"modified":"2020-10-05T22:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T02:00:19","slug":"csgo-moves-to-free-to-play-and-adds-battle-royale-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/csgo-moves-to-free-to-play-and-adds-battle-royale-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"CS:GO moves to free to play and adds battle royale mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of <a href=\"\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"Counter-Strike esports betting\">Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/a> are in for a few big changes.<\/p>\n<p>Late last week, Valve announced that the popular video game would become free to play.<\/p>\n<p>That news has sparked significant debate within the CS:GO community, as there are concerns that free play could attract cheats and hackers.<\/p>\n<p>Others say the nature of Prime Status accounts should prevent malcontents from gaining a foothold.<\/p>\n<p>The move has already seen a massive spike in activity, with CS:GO recording its highest participation numbers in over two years on Saturday, December 8.<\/p>\n<p>Not all has gone to plan, however, with more than 14,000 negative reviews appearing on Steam from players who had already spent money on a game that is now free.<\/p>\n<p>The other big news from Valve is the addition of a battle royale mode.<\/p>\n<p>Danger Zone is a fast-paced version of CS:GO where up to 18 players fight to the finish.<\/p>\n<p>Catering for solo play, duos and trios, the game offers a noted point of difference from battle royale favourites such as <a href=\"\/fortnite-battle-royale\/\" title=\"Fortnite esports betting\">Fortnite<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/pubg\/\" title=\"PUBG esports betting\">PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds<\/a> where up to 100 players can duke it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now free to play and includes a new battle royale mode called Danger Zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[226,508,11,4,23],"class_list":["post-6372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-battle-royale","tag-counter-strike","tag-csgo","tag-featured","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13940,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions\/13940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}