30,000 Steam Accounts Banned

[acc_int]

robbyd007 wrote..

damn, i was hoping for '30,000 Steam Accounts Banned' FOR CHEATING....

Don't even let VALVe try that. I don't want that to happen...

[xlokix]

Wouldn't it be more effective to just...you know... FIX the exploits that get valve games illegally?

[jedicmdrwedge]

xlokix wrote..

Wouldn't it be more effective to just...you know... FIX the exploits that get valve games illegally?

No. This way they scare people out of doing it again. And I'm sure they fixed the problem anyway.

[daniel88c]

Good job Valve! =).

[peagle]

MrZero wrote..

Honestly, I had CS: S and HL2 illegaly but i ended up buying them cuz i loved em so much. I was playing CS: S online fine and everything. Owned Valve

So they're such good games, you went out and bought them legally? How exactly did Valve get owned?

[farmer brown]

Hahahahahahahahaha! Glad I'm not one of them!!!!

[xlokix]

jedicmdrwedge wrote..

No. This way they scare people out of doing it again. And I'm sure they fixed the problem anyway.

No they haven't fixed the problem. Also, this doesn't "scare" people from doing it again. I guarantee that at least 3/4 (probably more) of those accounts were completely blank or just duplicates. There are still tons of ways to get free games on steam and all anyone has to do is register a new steam account, and Valve bans that account. Pretty crappy way of scaring people, if you ask me.

[HankPym]

xlokix wrote..

Wouldn't it be more effective to just...you know... FIX the exploits that get valve games illegally?

They have in at least one case - they disabled that fake CD-Key that everyone was using.



So they're attacking the problem on both fronts, and I don't see any problem with that.

[jedicmdrwedge]

xlokix wrote..

No they haven't fixed the problem. Also, this doesn't "scare" people from doing it again. I guarantee that at least 3/4 (probably more) of those accounts were completely blank or just duplicates. There are still tons of ways to get free games on steam and all anyone has to do is register a new steam account, and Valve bans that account. Pretty crappy way of scaring people, if you ask me.

What makes you say they haven't fixed it?



As for not scaring people, those who hadn't done it before might hear the huge number of accounts that were banned for using illegal copies and decide not to do the same thing.



Third, if most of the accounts were blank accounts or duplicates, what's the problem with Valve banning them? I'm sure it couldn't have taken more than a few hours' worth of work.

[Mikemike 2.0]

all i can say is one thing about the people who got their accounts banned:



AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

[snkcube]

*high fives Valve

[Pan the Goat God]

Merry Christmas bitches!

[The-Moose]

<3 have sex

[Stone Cold Spider 3:16]

i just hope they dont make mistakes......

i would really like to know how they determined these ppl didnt buy the game.....

[avery0226]

robbyd007 wrote..

damn, i was hoping for '30,000 Steam Accounts Banned' FOR CHEATING....

LOL YEAH



it is very useless to ban fake accounts.. lets think about it, if their smart enuf to dl hl2 and get it working, you think they'd be smart enuf NOT to use the real account which has games on it....i mean come on, takes like 10 seconds and an email (not even a valid one) to create a steam account, their only kidding the ppl who actually believe this is stopping or slowing piracy.



wtf is going on with VAC, its becomeing more of a pain to download the useless secrurity module which practically doubles my connection time to a server, when upon joining to find like 3 freaking hackers..



valve should worry just as much about their anti cheat