Valve confirmed that it banned a staggering 960,000 CS2 farming bot accounts in a single day, revealing just how large the automated farming problem has become in Counter Strike 2.
The figure has started circulating through the CS2 community again this week, although Valve’s original statement was posted roughly five months ago.
A Valve developer using the Reddit account ido_valve confirmed the ban while responding to a discussion about what players initially believed was a major VAC wave.
“Yesterday we banned 960,000 farming bot accounts.”
Valve said the bans followed several investigations that were helped by reports submitted by CS2 players.
These Were Farming Bots, Not 960,000 Cheaters
There is one important distinction.
Valve did not say it banned 960,000 cheaters. The accounts were specifically described as farming bots.
These automated accounts are commonly used to grind CS2 and generate rewards at scale, which is particularly relevant because Prime players can earn cases, skins and other items through the game’s CS2 weekly drop system.
With nearly one million accounts caught in a single sweep, the ban gives players a rare idea of how large these farming networks can become.
It also adds another layer to the debate around the real CS2 player count. The 960,000 figure represents accounts banned by Valve, not 960,000 bots simultaneously included in Counter Strike’s concurrent player count.
Valve Wants Players to Keep Reporting Bots
Valve credited community reports with helping its investigation and asked players to continue reporting farming operations.
Reports can be sent to [email protected] with the subject line “Farming Bot Report.”
Despite the size of the ban, some players in the original Reddit discussion claimed they continued seeing bots in Deathmatch and other official modes after the crackdown.
That suggests removing the accounts may only be part of the problem if farming networks can quickly replace them.
The bot situation is also separate from Valve’s ongoing work against cheating. Recent changes to the CS2 anti cheat system and the newly discovered VACNet Labeling Portal suggest Valve is continuing to work on VACNet and suspicious player detection.
For now, though, the 960,000 account purge remains one of the clearest examples of just how widespread automated farming has become in CS2.
