


Operations allowed the Global Offensive community to purchase the operation's pass, giving the player exclusive access to the community created maps (and later other community content) for a short period of time. As the quantity and caliber of the map selection on the Workshop increased, Valve decided to inlcude some of the more popular maps directly into Global Offensive as part of upcoming Operations. When a player subscribes to the map, it is automatically downloaded in-game, allowing the player to play with others on the map on community servers. Level designers can upload their custom maps directly to the Maps Workshop for other users to vote, favorite, comment and subscribe.

The Maps Workshop was introduced to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as part of the Februupdate along with the map, Assault. The Workshop map list in-game, showing the player's workshop map subscriptions
