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AimLXJ

Do you think VAC banned accounts should be allowed to join SteamGifts?

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crowe

Considering one of the ways to get VAC banned fast is to use illegitimate gifting or use proxies to illictly use foreign region codes and such, I think it might be a bad idea to allow them in...

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Corpekata

This has been brought up. VAC is not perfect. There are legit people that have been gifting here that are VAC banned.

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AimLXJ

I will need actual proof to believe what you just said because of my 5 year membership of Steam and playing Valve games this has never happened to me.

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nightwolf

Just because it hasn't happened to you yet, doesn't mean it won't. VAC can be a problem specially for people that use mods.

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AimLXJ

Ah yes, mods, I completely forgot about that. Now I remember the ENBSeries is able to get you banned, but wouldn't you think that the person might drop their banned Steam account and get a new one since the account is permanently banned? I know some are not able to right away due their cash.

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fishpen0

Most games do not use VAC, and only having TF2 and CS:S on a second Steam account is not enough value to get a steamgifts account.

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GintheCat

is it contagious?

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Nox

But they are less than 1%, Im on that vac banned shouldn't be allowed

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Denzi

Where do you get your numbers from? I want a source cited front and center from a creditable location.

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Switch

Same for me.. Vac banned accounts shouldn´t be allowed. For the past 2days I saw like 15 fishy giveaways (maybe all of them from russians) with vac ban and like 2-4games on list. Gives bad name for all good Ru people :-/. Just my point of view

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timeofyoursong

My last account was VAC banned due to a mistake while testing a cosmetic mod and I'm a legitimate gifter. It's unfair to assume that everyone with a VAC ban is fishy.

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Metatail

Guess I'll tell you my story too! I'm a long time Steam fan and a legit player! I hate hackers and other kinds of cheaters. Spoils the fun both for user and victims of his usage. Anyway, I really got into playing Modern Warfare 2. Over 800 hours played, almost everything unlocked. I felt like I wanted moar of MW2 as I've experienced everything the game had to offer. So me and my friends have found some mods. Nothing really gamebreaking or harmful - just things like ProMod, GunGame, SnipersOnly. Here comes the main thing - we decided to play them in PRIVATE match so nobody from outside would be forced into a modded lobby. Everything was fun and fancy until some of us got banned! And some were not (proving VAC doesn't detect 100% of cheaters).

So that's it. I got banned for such a foolish reason. Private means private! Not for VAC :P.
This ban doesn't really bother me much but it just shows that I got banned without me being a hacker. I wouldn't like for my ban to have other consequences than blocking my MW2, seeing as I'm a cool person and I even have some positive feedback on steamgifts :)

TL;DR
Some people didn't really deserve to get VAC banned and can still play fair!

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acdervis

No. Just because somebody acted like an idiot 5 years ago doesn't mean they didn't learn their lesson.

VAC bans are engine-wide, they're not banned from Steam. Why should they be banned from Steamgifts?

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kuribo

I don't see how a person can't be an idiot that uses an aimbot and also be a generous person that gives away Steam gifts.

And man, if I had a dollar for everytime one of you guys wanted some group of person banned...

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Shardok

Yes. There's no reason not to. End story.

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timeofyoursong

If I was still on my old account and this statue were in effect, I wouldn't be allowed to gift the way I do because I had a VAC ban on record from innocent modding on a private lobby. So yes, there is a reason not to - not every VAC ban is from doing something fishy, and not all accounts with VAC bans on record are here to scam.

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Closed 13 years ago by AimLXJ.