Anyone seeking clues to the inscrutable Valve’s grand plan for should look back at release back in 2012. Here was a game intended to finally break into the console markets after a decade of popularity on PC. It felt alarmingly different to The community feared the skills they’d honed over years would become redundant in order to let a new generation into the streets of de_dust2. That very well might have been the case, too, before Valve took over control from erstwhile developer Hidden Path and performed an about-turn over a period of years. By the time it was pointing magnetic north again, became something nobody could have anticipated – not just the bedrock of competitive FPS esports, but a prototypical
