a game like csgo basically makes all of its revenue through selling weapon/player skins. if you run a private server, you can just give people skins for free. i

a game like csgo basically makes all of its revenue through selling weapon/player skins. if you run a private server, you can just give people skins for free. if they really wanted, they could probably patch this out, but it would make the modding community furious. csgo has actually taken a pretty fair approach here. you can still run your own server if you want, but the official servers are decent enough that most players don't bother.