Thour called on Valve to remove Dust2 or Mirage from the active CS2 map pool.
Data miner Avi “Thour” Thour believes that Valve should remove either Dust2 or Mirage from the active competitive map pool for Counter-Strike 2. He wrote about this on his personal X account.
Valve needs to remove either Dust2 or Mirage from the competitive map pool, rather than removing the least popular map every season.
Earlier, data miner Avi “Thour” Thour published the latest statistics on Counter-Strike 2’s online player base. According to SteamDB, after a record high of 1.86 million concurrent players recorded in April 2025, the audience for Valve’s competitive shooter began to gradually decline.
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