Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dollar freefall

Re:Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dol... by pityJuke on Friday October 24, 2025 @02:24PM (#45697576)

> players grinding out matches just to get random loot box drops

I mean... what you have is people operating rooms full of computers running automated bots to farm drops (and presumably accounts to sell later) [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3yS6_WDb6w

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Re:Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dol... by michaelt on Friday October 24, 2025 @02:51PM (#45697882)

Right, but they didn’t want that to happen.

It’s just a weird side effect that’s surprisingly difficult to prevent - online games have had gold farmers for pretty much as long as there have been online games with gold.

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Re:Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dol... by BargirPezza on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:05PM (#45698560)

Coffeezilla makes an interesting series of videos about casinos in the csgo community and also makes a video against Valve themselves.

Worth a watch imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13eiDhuvM6Y

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Re:Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dol... by throwaway48476 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @08:23PM (#45741113)

You can not want something to happen but still do so knowing the inevitable result.

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Re:Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dol... by snailmailman on Friday October 24, 2025 @06:01PM (#45699548)

I’ve run into idle bot accounts several times while playing and it’s infuriating. Mainly in the arms race mode. Players can leave and join that mode at any time. So the bots will constantly be joining and leaving. if the bots manage to become 50% of the game they will vote kick all the remaining players. I’ve had several in progress matches interrupted because a few of the actual players bailed and the bots managed to take over the lobby.

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