Valve is rumored to have conducted a massive wave of bans in Counter-Strike 2 this night, blocking over 300,000 accounts that could be linked to bot farms, expensive and rare skins were also lost.

This action was aimed at combating players who create multiple accounts, buy Prime status on them, then on servers where the accounts stand still and do nothing, as a result of which they get a case at the end of the match and sell them. The bans were carried out using Valve's Anti-Cheat (VAC) system.

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In addition, in the latest update, Valve has banned all banned accounts in the Steam community from playing on protected servers. Some of the banned accounts belonged to owners of expensive in-game items, so we will no longer see rare skins in this version of the game

Also, after a new update to CS2, content maker ThourCS2, discovered that Valve added a message to the game for banned accounts after bot farms

Your account is locked and restricted from playing on secure servers in response to a violation of the Steam Subscriber Agreement or until the account's owner contacts Steam Support.

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Whether this will reduce bot farm activity and the number of bot farms is unknown, we'll have to keep a close eye on Valve's steps to combat bot farms and rule violations to see how this will affect the game's ecosystem in the long run.

Source: ThourCS2 and SkinSwap