^ i thought the same when contemplating whether or not to buy css when it went on sale for $5 during last xmas
it turns out it's still the 2nd most popular game on steam behind MW2.
there's still 30k players and over 10k servers...
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
what's more suprising is that cs 1.6 is still #3...wtf after 10 years