Counter-Strike creator doesn't know if he'd achieve success redoing the game nowadays

Minh "Gooseman" Le, one of the co-creators of Counter-Strike in 1999, said in a recent interview with YouTuber DeZolance that it would have been "much more difficult" to redo the game nowadays as the gaming industry has massively changed.

The game industry today is way different than it was 20 years ago. It's just so much more competitive. You have people making great games and the market is really saturated with a lot of great games. And, at the same time, it's also saturated with a lot of shitty games where people are just trying to make a quick buck.

And that's unfortunate because it makes it really hard for the good games to get noticed. They have to fight for attention in a sea of all these crappy cash grab games. It's really difficult to get some attention and get your game out there.

I feel really lucky to get into the game industry when it was kind of in its early stages. If I were to redo Counter-Strike today, I'm not even sure if I would have still succeeded. All I know is it would have been much more difficult because it would just be so competitive.

Gooseman also said that he sold the Counter-Strike IP to Valve for six digits, so between $100,000 and $999,999.

After selling Counter-Strike to Valve, Gooseman went on to work for Valve from June 2000 to December 2005. He also led the development of a multiplayer FPS called Tactical Intervention after parting ways with Valve.