Valve handing bans to popular CS2 content creators for using deathmatch XP exploit

Valve takes a clear stance against anything exploitative in CS2, with recent bans on people exploiting a bug in Deathmatch that allowed players to gain a massive amount of XP on their armoury pass. This comes days after the armour update where Valve introduced a lot of new items, including new weapon charms.

These banned accounts included many popular CS2 skin traders like ArrowCS, Dima, Duwap and others who regularly traded weapon skins. A lot of players also suffered the same fate. Many simply believed that Valve would revert the XP gains and fix the issue, but that’s not what Valve did.

Call Valve lazy one more time as instead of a reset, Everyone who farmed the XP exploit were handed one year of trade ban and now sits with their inventory locked. This means, that regardless of anything, these players will not be able to trade the skins they unlock or anything they have in their inventory. Everything else remains the same, and they can still play the game as usual.

At first, everyone in deathmatch and casual were simply dying and ending rounds to complete the pass as soon as possible. Players soon found an exploit where a single deathmatch in Italy or Office would give them progress worth dozens of matches. As expected, a lot of players in the community were on it like paint, completing passes to gain stars and unlocking weapon skins.

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Why were players using an exploit?

The armoury pass allows players to gain 40 starts which can be used to roll random skins, given the odds, players need to get very lucky to get rare items. Players can buy five passes at once, and another five after completing the first one.

In order to unlock everything before others, the exploit was an easy way to complete the first five passes and purchase another five to get more stars. This not only broke the ToS, it also made the grind other people are doing for rate items pointless, as more of those items will simply lower the value.