Different products, same problem. Hours after Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri confirmed that the iPad user base was not enough to develop a dedicated app. The Counter-Strike developer studio has confirmed that it has no plans for a macOS version of the game due to a lack of players.

Valve shared its decision in the Steam FAQ section. He confirmed that in the future, Counter Strike 2 will only support 64-bit Windows and Linux.

“As technology advances, we have made the difficult decision to end support for legacy hardware, including DirectX 9 and 32-bit operating systems. Likewise, we will no longer support macOS. Collectively, these represent less than one percent of active CS :GO players.”

Valve announces the end of CS on macOS

The release of Counter-Strike 2 last month forced all CS:GO users, including Mac users, to upgrade to 26GB. The macOS update could not be played due to lack of support and rollback option.

To fix this situation, Valve will offer refunds until December 1, 2023 to Mac players who meet the following conditions:

• According to the Prime status update, if the majority of your CS:GO play time is on macOS and you played CS:GO on Mac between the Counter-Strike 2 limited testing announcement (March 22, 2023).
• With the launch of Counter-Strike 2 (September 27, 2023), regardless of when you purchased your Prime status upgrade.

In the same post, Valve detailed: Those who want to continue playing CS:GO on macOS will have access to an older version or “frozen version” of the gameIt has all the features of CS:GO except official matchmaking. Support for this version of CS:GO will end on January 1, 2024.

After this date The game will still be available, but some features are dependent on Game Coordinator support. According to Valve (e.g. inventory access) may become corrupted and/or fail.

Counter-Strike was released in 2012 and has since become one of the most popular FPS games with tens of millions of active players. In this sense, if less than 1% of the user base uses Macs, this could still represent hundreds of thousands of gamers. However, Valve’s decision was encouraged by Apple’s lack of native support for the Vulkan API on which the game is based for Mac..