Valve Lets banned players play their games

GABE2NICE.

Thats great! Not that I am a cheater but I have heard of steam being unreasonable at times. Great job Gabe.

Do they still have multiplayer features?

I wouldn't think so.

Well. That's nice.

I dont see why they cant buy games too? Iguess its a good article for some.

awesome! the only reason i stopped using my tf2 hacks was because i thought id lose my games!

Awesome!

Valve never stopped people from playing if they were VAC banned.

And i dont like this policy at all.If you phish or try to scam you no longer have the ultimate consequence of losing all of your games which sucks for every normal player out there.

I remember someone posted this in chat a few days ago showing how those restricted account messages look. Same link as in the article. Was surprised but not a bad change.

They shouldn't have been able to lock people out of games they legally purchased in the first place. But at least this is a step in the right direction.

This is the only + from having Origin. Competition.

Note Steam has been doing this since before EA

Origin sucks because it is trying to compete with Steam. EA just looks at the cash value of something not player Experience or useability (as we seen in there games) I will always stick with Steam that is why I quit my Origin account and deleted it :D

I see no problem with letting people play the games they legally bought. If someone cheats in a game and gets caught, no reason to lock them out of their account, (when did they start this anyway? first I heard of it...). Now if someone is a proven scammer either via trade or by using paypal fraud or w/e then thats another matter. Also, they should still be banned from playing vac secured servers at any rate.

clap clap A step in the right direction.

its nothing new thought

lol...so if somone is cheating, they just get their account locked and can cheat forever? thats how i understand it

Wow that's kinda cool

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So, cheaters can continue cheating in the games they cheated at... ?

All you now loose is your "identity" if you hack...

Seeing as how hackers really don't give a crap, this is effectively the same as:

Valve has announced that cheating is now allowed in all their games.

Great news! I mean cheaters still get punished, but they don't lose what they've rightfully paid for. Makes perfect sense.

From what I read there, it seems Valve is referring to the account bans (fraud, chargeback, account hacking, etc) rather than VAC bans (aimbots, server hacks, etc)

This is good, not that I condone cheating, its just that Valve were way too harsh, limiting the account is a good punishment. Even if they do cheat, that shouldn't justify taking away psosibly $5000 worth of games.