CS:GO Free Weekend

I'm assuming it didn't sell very well, if they had put more work into making it, it might have.
Not saying that it's a bad thing, but it basically looks like Counter Strike: Source with new skins, textures and possibly a few other features...

Nevertheless, I'll give it a try. Since I don't have CSS, I might even buy it.

13th 'most current players' this moment according to steam stats
(CS and CS:S 3rd and 4th)

There were cheaters when the game was in beta and there still enough of them. VAC just got updated twice in the last few days and always banned many people. Even in high level gaming there are cheater, "Gerrah" just got banned for example. I'd say there are just more cheater with leggit settings than cheaters with rage settings.

@topic: i don't think this will change much for csgo. Most people on Steam who are interested already bought it, i mean it's only 14€. A retail version would be much better, because then more casual gamers would buy it.

In the article it says that there might be a sale. I doubt there will be one though, it's too new to be on sale already. If they however do make a sale, it's a sign that it's not selling very well.

Wait for the free weekend to start and it should appear in your library.

It will show up in your game library when the free weekend starts. It should start in just over 4 hours.

Not sure what exactly about it seems so good to you, I'm trying it out during the free-weekend, and to be honest it's not that much different from Source, yes the graphics are improved more than I expected, but that's pretty much it. Since I've played CS 1.6 quite a lot, I would even say it's not as good as 1.6, from what I understand they tried to bring back the classical game of Counter-Strike, instead they've messed up some features that people liked. Not to mention removing mp5, usp, silencer on M4A1.

Overall, I'd say they have made it more noob-friendly, radar now shows where enemies are if they make a sound or if you see them (which I don't like at all), it shows where the C4 has been planted if you have "seen" it, so if you can't find it just run around a plant and radar will help you, same goes for plant spots and hostages. They've significantly decreased the learning curve, hell there's hardly any learning - just get in a match and shoot. Also, there aren't really official bots in CS 1.6, so I'm not sure if this is true, but the bots in CS:GO are ridicilously noobish, I played with normal ones at first, thought they'd be challanging, well I was wrong, same goes for Hard ones, didn't bother trying Expert, just went on an online match instead.

Sorry for super long reply, just my thoughts about it so far.