>>719008302
nah nobody cared about cs until csgo, css and 1.6 were popular but its playerbase wasnt on the same level as other popular fps games at the time
arena fps dominated in the early years with quake and unreal, then console shooters started getting popular with goldeneye then halo and cod4, then pc fps players were mostly playing arena shooters and early war games, then by the 2010s cs became relevant with csgo

if youre talking about war games then the major popular games for pc were medal of honor, cod2, cod4, mw2, rainbow six, battlefield etc
css and 1.6 had dedicated fan bases but the games weren't relevant enough and if someone wanted to play the tactical immersive games theyd just play arma

csgo is when the cs design started being adopted