{"id":23938,"date":"2025-04-04T14:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=23938"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:23:14","slug":"valve-began-to-clean-case-farming-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/valve-began-to-clean-case-farming-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve Began to Clean Case Farming Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following the launch of the newest update in CS2<\/strong>, Valve <\/strong>began a significant crackdown on accounts engaged in farming new cases. As frequently occurs with the introduction of sought-after skins, farmers\u2014operators of bot networks that automatically gather drops from numerous accounts and promptly list them for sale\u2014become active. Last night, Valve <\/strong>executed a significant elimination of accounts involved in skin farming. The bans were applied manually, after a thorough review of questionable account behaviors, rather than through automated processes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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VAC Bans for Case Farming<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

A well-known farmer lost 179 of his 333 accounts after using them for only six months. Given the extent of the removal, this marks just the start of a new series of actions against farmers, who have long been viewed as a significant issue within the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The widespread ban wave occurred simultaneously with Valve’s <\/strong>spring update release in CS2<\/strong>, which rolled out on April 1<\/strong>. The update brought three new collections, the Fever Case <\/strong>featuring 17 skins and enhanced versions of the Inferno <\/strong>and Train <\/strong>maps. Additional information regarding the update can be found at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep up with our coverage for more insights on the latest esports news and updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the launch of the newest update in CS2, Valve began a significant crackdown on accounts engaged in farming new cases. As frequently occurs with the introduction of sought-after skins, farmers\u2014operators of bot networks that automatically gather drops from numerous accounts and promptly list them for sale\u2014become active. Last night, Valve executed a significant elimination<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":23940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-23938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2","9":"tag-cs2-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23941,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23938\/revisions\/23941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}