Valve has banned 960,000 Counter-Strike 2 accounts in a single day using its Valve Anti-Cheat system, according to a Reddit post by Valve's Ido Magal. The massive ban wave targets farming bots that have plagued the game's competitive matches and skin market. These automated accounts typically throw games by being AFK or letting bots play instead.

Farming bots have become a persistent problem in CS2, driven by the game's lucrative in-game economy that generated over $1 billion in 2025. Bot farmers create multiple accounts to farm valuable skins and keys, disrupting legitimate gameplay and flooding the secondary market. The practice has grown so widespread that it's become a major concern for the competitive community.

Magal credited the successful crackdown to user reports and encouraged players to continue submitting evidence of bot farming to [email protected]. The scale of this ban wave represents one of Valve's largest single-day enforcement actions against automated accounts in Counter-Strike's history, signaling the company's commitment to maintaining competitive integrity in its flagship shooter.