It looks like Valve's most popular FPS, CS:GO could be going free-to-play this 2015.

It's no doubt that Valve's CS:GO is one of the most played FPS on Steam and it looks like the player count would reach the next level as it could go free-to-play this 2015 if the reports and rumors are to be believed.

Cyberland has reported that Valve is allegedly going to follow the free-to-play model in Dota 2 and slowly apply it to CS:GO. This means that CS:GO would eventually become free-to-play. The report also mentions that the transition to free-to-play would be before The International 2015 and that a major CS:GO tournament would be held at the event.

Meanwhile, it seems that Valve has been keeping up with the hackers in CS:GO and they've effectively banned thousands of them in just a month.

As was reported by PC Gamer:

"In what comes as a nice Christmas present for any Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players who don't engage in nefarious deeds - or cheating, if you will - it's being claimed a huge amount of those falling on the naughty side of the fence have been banned."

"The claims come from the Global Offensive community on Reddit, where estimates put the number of banned cheaters at around 1,600 - and that's a conservative guess. That's a lot of banhammers dropping through the Valve Anti-Cheat System."

"The new detection abilities of VAC means more than 16 cheat-selling sites can be detected, and anyone caught using their hacks and the like risks being kicked, banned and losing everything."

This comes as a good sigh of relief for gamers that would worry that CS:GO being free-to-play would invite a lot of hackers as well.