Say I'm a bad actor and I want to cheat in a game that I own, but don't want to risk my account. Of course it doesn't stop all cheating, but it's gonna stem the tide. You might not agree with it, but it's there to protect the integrity of Steam VAC system as a whole. There's a reason they do this and it's a really, really GOOD reason.

Also any accounts which are linked by the same phone number could also recieve a Vac ban on the other accounts. This is because now days all Steam accounts are in the same folder, whereas before they were seperate and it wouldn't impact other accounts on the same PC if one account cheated. If it was me and I used the same PC as my son then I would also uninstall Steam, clean the registry the best you can and remove all tracers of the cheat used, Ideally I'd format my PC to make sure that the cheat is fully removed from my Steam. They can't ban the person who used the cheat as it's impossible to prove who was playing at the time, thus why it's the account which used the cheat that recieves the ban. As it's your responsibilty and the cheat was enabled on your account then it's your account which gets Vac banned. It's your account so it's your responsibilty to make sure that no one uses the account in a way which goes against the rules of Steam. Vac banned your account because it was your account which enabled a cheat on a Vac enabled server. I didn't cheat I just shared my library with the wrong person.

I think that is a reasonable punishment not a vac ban. I think they can just revoke the sharing ability for that game or for a whole, and after that I can't share that game or any of my games to anyone. Steam has a fucked up logic in this situation. Maybe I understood to revoke my Family Sharing privileges, but WHY gave me a VAC ban? I did NOT cheated in online games ever. Additionally, VAC-banned games cannot be shared between accounts.' 'Your Family Sharing privileges may be revoked and your account may also be VAC banned if your library is used by others to cheat. Steam decided to gave me a VAC ban, just because my son cheated in Counter-Strike: Source, that game is in my library I just shared with him. What was I thinking? warning others? that was a supid idea. I posted this to warn others, if maybe someone else is clueless about vac ban.as I am.īut this is 'GREAT and not toxic' comminity that your warning is somehow ends with a lot blacklist and arguing.

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