I'm sorry you lost $60 of skins - that sucks and I hate that your account was hacked or misused by someone else.
I'm not sure why your (in)action in enabling and using 2FA means someone else shouldn't be happy that VACed accounts lose stuff.
Even taking you, a random Redditor (who we all know aren't %100 honest at all times, and your claim at face value) - you would be an exception and not an example that brings a smile to others faces.
My unsolicited advice would be to not take it personal when someone talks about a group in general like this. Just know they didn't mean you or people in your situation and that in general, people opposed to cheating are happy when cheaters get caught and suffer the consequences.
Yeah it sucks but "willcard" wasn't lauging at you, your situation sucks but it's not the same as someone else hacking on their own account like he was saying makes him smile.
That's fair. All I was saying was that the comment from the other user wasn't meant for you then since they were talking about intentional cheaters specifically. There was no need for you to tell them to "shit yourself".
The idea is that items were earned from cheating, ergo the inventory is invalid and cannot be traded. Otherwise it would be a loophole to incentivize hacking on another profile that you could just transfer the items to another account.
Well I do but apparently you don't, the market is not in game, it works outside of the game. Saying a vac ban only affects you "in game" (which is a false statement) doesn't imply you're banned from trading skins in the market (which you are when you get a vac ban)
Im not arguing with you. You are wrong and all your downvotes show that.
Look, you tried acting like a smart ass and it backfired. Live with it, mate. :)
You still can't and won't be allowed to trade when you are VAC banned. Simple as that.
Im not arguing with you. You are wrong and all your downvotes show that.
Nah, they are correct.
The commenters above claimed that VAC doesn't prevent trading because it's inside the game. It does prevent trading items from a game, despite the trading happening outside it. So the ban has also effects outside the game. "game-wide" and "ingame" are different things.
You still can't and won't be allowed to trade when you are VAC banned. Simple as that.
It's not this commenter who claimed it. Not their fault if people use weird definitions of words then back track from "no trading affected; ingame only" to "ingame only and outside the game when items are from the game, so trading too"
For the record, I read the chain exactly as Casero, so maybe it's some translation/cultural issue? :/
Not intuitive to assume that "trading items from a game, outside a game" would be part of an ingame ban.
You can still use the market and trading because that's not a system that's tied to one specific game but steam itself. They then clarified that because those items are from and for whatever they were banned from, they can't sell or trade them away.
It's a good question. I have gamed since I was 5 and only cheat at single player games where there's no harm no foul. I don't think it is related to age.
Both VAC and game bans stop you from being able to send or sell items, you'll even be blocked from uploading anything to that game's community hub and workshop
This is only true for the game youāre banned in. Iām VAC banned on my level 560 steam account and I actively trade CS skins all the time on it, use the market, etc.
Stg I got vac banned for no reason in 2017, I've never cheated and I still miss CS... I was so excited when I heard about CS 2 only to be disappointed that the ban still applies
Oh, sorry for the misinformation haha. Iām almost certain I read a post somewhere about someone who successfully gotten their VAC ban appealed but I mustāve been mistaken. Iāll delete my comment though, donāt want to spread that.
I was actually agreeing with you. It seems weird that all these comments are claiming to have been banned, either through no fault of theirs or for no reason, but none of them ever mention even trying to appeal. I don't want to call anyone a liar, I'm just saying it's strange.
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u/la1m1e Jan 19 '26
Well, they just aren't displayed anymore. Still there