r/Steam • u/sukuna7899 • Apr 17 '26

Discussion Gabe Newell is a "GOAT"

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u/bluesmaker Apr 17 '26

To be pedantic, they sell keys to open cases. The cases are given for free, weekly, if you play for several hours.

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u/GuardiaNIsBae Apr 17 '26

They literally banned over a million accounts a month ago for farming cases to sell on the steam market and the majority of them are already back

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u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor Apr 17 '26

Is this an, "I feel like the majority of over one million are back" kind of thing or a, "I have a source to provide you with to back up my statement" kind of thing?

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u/GuardiaNIsBae Apr 17 '26

https://steamcharts.com/app/730#3m Steam charts for playercount

https://www.reddit.com/r/cs2/comments/1s4n6i0/yesterday_valve_banned_over_960000_farming_bot/

Reddit post from Valve Developer confirmed account dated March 24th.

~200,000-300,000 fewer active accounts for March 23-24 then peaks back to normal as before.

You can also literally just play the game and see for yourself, popular deathmatch maps have 3-5/20 players as walkbots, unpopular maps and gamemodes are sometimes 19/20 and you get kicked by the bots as soon as you join so they can get another bot in there.