Nearly 1 Million Banned in Latest Valve VAC Wave

Nearly 1 Million Banned in Latest Valve VAC Wave

A CS2 developer has confirmed that nearly 1 million accounts have been banned in one of the largest VAC waves in recent memory. The bans were issued and carried out within a single day against confirmed farming bot accounts, marking it as one of the most monumental efforts by Valve to clean up their game’s ecosystem. 

VAC Wave Washes Out Almost 1 Million Bot Accounts

CS2 Dev Ido Magal has confirmed that during Valve’s latest efforts to target-ban farming bot accounts, at least 960,000 accounts have been banned. They attributed the immense success as a result of a series of investigations carried out by the team following user reports.  

Farming bot accounts refer to accounts utilizing scripts, which are designated to ‘farm’ drops in CS2 gamemodes (typically Deathmatch and Casual lobbies). The issues scale depending on the end goal, but there have been multiple reports for years with video evidence of entire bot farm lobbies dedicated to farming drops in CS2 and its predecessor CSGO.

Said farmed drops are then sold on either the Steam Market or one of the many free markets for CS items (skins, cases, sprays, etc). Stemming from Valve skins carrying actual monetary value (thanks to the ability to sell and transfer skins to other user accounts, pervasive issues such as bot farms continue to plague one of the most popular FPS titles even in 2026.

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