Posted March 6, 200520 yr It is kind of stupid for me to even put this in the news but what the fuck. For years now, stupid people have been under the impression that if you get someones SteamID from a server your on and they are cheating, if you email that to Valve, they magically ban that person. A Half-Life 2 news site even recently posted this in their news after being raged by some myg0t members. These idiots fail to realize Valve has never banned anyone reported in this fashion just for the simple reason anyone can send in a email with a SteamID, it has no proof. If this ever were true we'd be the first to abuse the crap out of it by reporting 1,000's of SteamID's of random people taken off random servers. Valve may make mistakes from time to time, but they have never been stupid enough to use a method as flawed and open for abuse as this. So I hope that clears that up for the simple minded people who think emailing them SteamID's results in bans, it never has and never will.
March 6, 200520 yr nah, there just 12 year olds that spread rumours like that... indeed not really worth posting this in the news, i say let them be...
March 6, 200520 yr Yer but... can't the server ban your ip. and the secure servers all stick together, so if you get banned on one like 80 others will be the same ???this true??? c( Trip.seV) Oh and thanks for the hax, you made me 1337!!! :p
March 6, 200520 yr Yer but... can't the server ban your ip. and the secure servers all stick together, so if you get banned on one like 80 others will be the same ???this true??? c( Trip.seV) Oh and thanks for the hax, you made me 1337!!! :p ye right, set up server ban random fags and they are banned from cs rifk
March 6, 200520 yr http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=93665 maybe you could edit that into the news.
March 6, 200520 yr forgetting http://steambans.com/ aren't we? but even tho, they're still not very distinct in cs source.
March 6, 200520 yr yea i've been banned from steambans twice, but it's like "Oh noes banned from like 1% of the servers! What ever shall I do!" And to expand on what OMP posted, even if you provide screenshots or movies Valve wont do shit because those can be edited.
March 6, 200520 yr OverlordQ']yea i've been banned from steambans twice, but it's like "Oh noes banned from like 1% of the servers! What ever shall I do!" And to expand on what OMP posted, even if you provide screenshots or movies Valve wont do shit because those can be edited. no, its because they dont give a fuck about some whining 12 year old
March 6, 200520 yr it's common fuckin sense dumbass. Steambans has about 1,000 participating dedicated servers, so take that number and compare with CS's 35,000 servers, 1 out of 35 servers uses it. Still, not hefty enough to get concerned about.
March 7, 200520 yr anti cheat groups will never use a ban system to ban you from a batch of servers because they know someone will abuse that power :rape:
March 7, 200520 yr You're mistaken, Punk Buster has alot of backing, covering smaller games, and even larger ones like DooM3 CoD:UO and Ravenshield. groups behind it are wellknown, and most servers use the ban system. For instance http://www.punksbusted.com or http://www.pbbans.com have over 15,000 bans in total. Even more servers use the banlist.
March 7, 200520 yr hahahaha.....wtf. wut kind of fucking retard would actually rely on unproven e-mail claims to get somebody banned.. i woulda banned like a million by now... thanxyou for finally clearing that up for all the dumbshits out there :cool:
March 7, 200520 yr Haha I've had maybe atleast 10 people use that threat on me every week. Even if they do ban your steamid you just get a new key and wow...waste of time.
March 7, 200520 yr Even if Steam DID ban ID's like this, you could get around it by using a key generator or by asking me for one of my many spares. :grin:
March 7, 200520 yr Ive known this for the longest. Its so funny because they cant dont nothing. wow sucks for valve.
March 7, 200520 yr Ive known this for the longest arnt you just capatin cool.... on a side note cheat demo + hexeditor + idscreenshot + photoshop + steambans.com = RAGE... getting gay admins banned from their own steamban servers
March 8, 200520 yr http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/ Just visit the VAC section - and you'll see how Valve handle things [terribly I might add].
