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Team Fortress Classic (short: TFC) is an online tactical shooter by Valve. It is the direct successor to the popular Quake modification Team Fortress and the predecessor of Team Fortress 2, which was released in 2009, which is why it is sometimes referred to as Team Fortress 1.5. Along with the shooter Counter-Strike released in 2000, the widespread success of Team Fortress Classic's multiplayer mode was one of the main reasons for the creation of the Steam platform.

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With the release of Steam, Valve actively promoted gamers of its own titles (Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Team Fortress Classic) to link them to the new platform. This developer practice, which later evolved into launching Steam-legal games, was quite controversial in the early 2000s. Many users accused Valve of using Steam as a control tool for its own customers or as a simple market research tool.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a multiplayer shooter computer game developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) is a sequel to the popular game Half-Life: Counter-Strike, which was released in 1999. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was released on August 21, 2012.

The popularity and audience of CS: GO is constantly growing.

It is not the first year that a large number of sports tournaments, from amateur to professional, are held in the discipline The prize fund of the tournaments in CS: GO is constantly growing and amounts to $1,000,000 in some competitions. The game has a large number of weapon skins, they do not provide any additional advantage in the game, the price of which reaches several thousand dollars, and anyone can get them by playing the game or opening skins that also fall into the game. The finals of the major tournaments are broadcast on television, and bets on the outcome of the game are made by bookmakers, who talk about the further development and popularization of CS: GO.