After the release of the latest update in CS2, Valve initiated a large-scale purge of accounts involved in farming new cases. As is often the case with the release of popular skins, farmers—owners of bot networks that automatically collect drops from hundreds of accounts and immediately put them on the market—become active.

Last night, Valve conducted a large-scale purge of accounts engaged in skin farming. The bans were not issued through automated systems but manually, following an analysis of suspicious account activities.

One of the most well-known farmers lost 179 out of his 333 accounts, which he had used for just six months. Judging by the scale of the purge, this is only the beginning of a new wave of efforts against farmers, who have long been considered a global problem within the community. Meanwhile, cheaters seem to have been left "on the other side."

The massive wave of bans coincided with the release of the spring update in CS2, which Valve launched on April 1. The patch introduced three new collections (Ascent, Boreal, and Radiant), the Fever case with 17 skins, and updated versions of the Inferno and Train maps. More details about the update can be found at this link.