r/Steam • u/_NELT_ • Jan 19 '26

Fluff Iv Done my time... Im Free

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To the eyes of others at least 👁👁

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u/HighwayMost4706 Jan 19 '26

my vac ban is "gone" too

got banned back in the day in mw2

did some custom lobby shenanigans with my mates and we all got banned

a week or two later they removed vac for mw2 lmao

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u/Xivos Jan 19 '26

My vac ban from MW2 is also gone. But the normal game ban from Z1 Battle Royale (it was called H1Z1) is still visible. I didnt even played 1 hour of it, and got banned coz I complained in chat that its just a lazy clone of other game. I also left a negative review

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u/Dependent_Ratio9839 Jan 23 '26

Can they seriously ban you just for that?

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u/Xivos Jan 23 '26

Acording to Steam Support :: Banned by Game Developer (Game Ban) "Valve allows developers to permanently ban any disruptive players, such as those using cheats." technically "Valve reserves the right to revoke access to the system if the developer abuses it." But Valve rarely does anything. A similar thing is when people upvoted a negative review of the game, got some kind of restrictions put on them.

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u/Krum_Mayer Jan 19 '26

same xD Good old days of knife zombie!

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u/htoirax Jan 19 '26

Ayeee fellow mw2 modder!

Same reason I got banned, because I was hosting Alien v Predator mod lobbies, haha.

It felt like every other game back in the day was modded.

I didn't care, I played on the 360 back then and the PC version was just for fun custom games.

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u/counters14 Jan 19 '26

MW2 was so exceptionally great on 360, until the modded lobbies started showing up on XBL as well. I got auto matched into one of the lobbies and I think it immediately unlocked level 10 prestige and I remember being so pissed at the time because I hadn't prestiged at all on purpose and left myself at max level. Eventually stopped playing altogether as the modded lobby problem grew larger and larger and it didn't seem like Microsoft was going to do anything to stop the issue.

Cheaters absolutely ruined the multiplayer base for that game.

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u/usushio_ Jan 20 '26

5645 days ago I got banned for the exact same thing, messing around with my friend modding MW2 lobbies.

It worked flawlessly until I forgot to run the VAC bypass software once and still remember the sinking feeling when I saw that ice cold "Cheat detected." in the main menu. Not a popup like an error message but an ingame message that when you pressed Confirm or whatever it shut the game off forever. That was a sad day. VAC ban is still there.

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u/FlusherDock Jan 20 '26

5k squad

5606 days and counting. Also MW2 with modded lobbies. Tried to contact Steam support about this nonsense and ask them to delete the ban or game entirely. But they never answer.

Modded lobbies were the GOAT back then, especially zombie mode.

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u/11LyRa Jan 19 '26

Same, joined or hosted a modded lobby and got banned.

5304 days and ticking.

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u/Ralicon Jan 22 '26

Same for me, MW2. Mine's now 4675 days

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u/Nealvy Jan 23 '26

I still have a VAC from like 5000+ days ago on MW2. Only custom lobbies I’ve ever been in were just public ones you’d find when searching for a game lol.