Ulrich Schulze, Senior Vice-President of Product at ESL feels that the numbers for the poor performance of CSGO is lopsided. The numbers do not indicate the entire month of April and the new API released by Valve essentially ensure that the numbers look smaller than before.
This got shared a lot and made a top reddit thread, but a few things to consider:
1) This is not average monthly players, not even average daily players, but average daily concurrent players.
2) Valve recently made changes to the API – SteamSpy shut down because of it, so… https://t.co/8IyFnzHyAs— Ulrich Schulze (@theflyingdj) April 28, 2018