[beckthompson]

I'm pretty sure the bots are farming "Drops" which they'll sell for money. Every week you get a free case (or skin I think) which the bots are taking advantage of

[squigz]

Err, no. Bots (in the context of 1.6 at least) are not tied to a Steam account and can't earn anything.

Anyway, GP's is not my impression of 1.6 back in the day: lots of bot servers back then too.

[dankwizard]

Not bot in the traditional sense of the game's AI, but bots as in accounts loaded up with the bare basics to join games and AFK - They level the account, get the steam free drops, and then sell that drop + the account eventually.

There is decent money in it. Back in CSGO I had a VM running two full bot servers at a run cost of ~$3.xx per week to earn ~$30 fully automated.

[password4321]

I'd heard of https://github.com/JustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm for Steam cards but was not aware there were CS2 drops.

[matheusmoreira]

Farming game drops via custom clients is prohibited since the TF2 days. Farming cards doesn't seem to be though. The support pages recognize the existence of "Steam idlers".