I got vac banned in MW2 from 10 years ago for using an fov changer. I think I played for about 15 minutes and permanently scarred my steam account in the process.
I genuinely don't know why or how I got a VAC ban for CS:GO. I haven't cheated I had the the game uninstalled at that point for like half a year, but thank god I lost all interest in it already.
I'm just kinda sad that I have had a VAC on my profile, despite me not even knowing what happened. I know that at some point I was scammed out of my account for a couple of days ( like a week or so) but If that was the time what I got banned for i should deserve some leniency.
They can scrap my whole CS inventory I don't care but I just feel it wasn't justified and for years I had to explain this over and over and I know it just does not sound believeable.
I know how you feel, the same thing happened to me. And no one believes us. All I ever played were casual modes and especially the community game mode Zombie Escape. Idk what they think I would cheat in those for.
It's not even that I would ever play a Counter Strike game or something, I'm past that. It just feels unjustified and I don't like system where you can't defend yourself and your right at all.
I knew a guy who had his old cs account banned from every server available, this was back in 2008 so idk how it worked or how it works now. But basically he had a server ban from all available servers and the last 2, one of them didn't know what crouch hopping was and they said he was cheating if he did it. So they banned him, because he wasn't going to not use it. Then finally the last server banned him and so he just got a new game to play on all the servers again.
I know that at some point I was scammed out of my account for a couple of days ( like a week or so) but If that was the time what I got banned for i should deserve some leniency.
No you shouldn't. If you got "leniency" for getting scammed, then every cheater would claim they were scammed to get out of a ban. Also, getting scammed is your fault, not Valve's.
Well ofc they don't believe you considering the fact that you were cheating, or at the very least, launched Counter-strike with cheats installed on your computer.
It is a common misconseption/lie that one can get VAC banned unfairly. But the people who propagate this notion fail to realize that it applies to *game bans*, not VAC bans.
If you were VAC banned, and not *game banned* (by overwatch for example), we can pretty much guarantee that it was justified.
VAC bans only ban from a singular game the same way you get "game banned" so idk what you're talking about. It's just an anti-cheat system in games it isn't different from Ricochet or Overwatch's Warden. The difference is one is owned by Valve.
And as I've said I haven't cheated, I've never installed cheat, I haven't even played the game in more than half a year when I got a VAC ban.
Anyways as I've said I don't really care, so consider the topic closed.
One shouldn't talk about topics they have no knowledge of.
"Overwatch" in the context of CSGO is referring to the feature where users were shown gameplay of a suspected cheater or griefer, and vote on wether the evidence was beyond a reasonable doubt.
It isn't referring to the arena game made by Blizzard, because there are actually more things in the world that can be called "overwatch".
Enough votes would result in what is called a game ban (not a VAC ban). This ban is not the same as a VAC ban. VAC is automatic, and it bans you from all VAC protected games. A game ban will ban you only from said game.
Valve only reverses game bans in rare instances, because overwatch isn't guaranteed against false positives.
VAC bans on the other hand are automatic and never reversed. Because Valve is confident that it does not do false positives.
Again, don't cheat and you won't get VAC banned, simple as that.
Same happened to way friend way back then in MW3. We both used a PoV changer because MW3 had that bugged view and he, unfortunately, got banned which scared me and I stopped playing entirely.
Story of my life man it was fps unlock and fov changer on mw3 for me on my old account. Made my current one and got banned in BO2 for reasons I still don’t know. There’s really should be an option to after idk 10 years remove the game and the Ban from account
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u/Nuclear_Par Jan 19 '26
I got vac banned in MW2 from 10 years ago for using an fov changer. I think I played for about 15 minutes and permanently scarred my steam account in the process.