MAC address ban

[76561199093003946]

When is VAC going to start MAC address banning along with user accounts? Cheaters sometimes answer me with: "This is CS:GO" (of course they are cheating).

What kind of atmosphere is this to play in, at least lets start getting rid of script kiddies... Come on VALVE, I stopped recording cheaters because there are like 5 on each map, all of the time.

People who stay don't kick them, the experiences players just leave immediately... It's THAT bad. There are less times there's a normal game than there are cheater games and it's disgusting.

s/experiences/experienced

[Dicht007™ DiNase]

same as with IPbans

that has been discussed to death


BORING

[graystripe]

and it will never work at all.

[Murassa [TR]]

Lol Mac adresses are easy to change

[Zeromix]

Imagine you buy a used computer and can´t play CS:GO...
That´s why this system would be a bad idea.

[fishski]

Originally posted by -.-:

When is VAC going to start MAC address banning along with user accounts? Cheaters sometimes answer me with: "This is CS:GO" (of course they are cheating).

What kind of atmosphere is this to play in, at least lets start getting rid of script kiddies... Come on VALVE, I stopped recording cheaters because there are like 5 on each map, all of the time.

People who stay don't kick them, the experiences players just leave immediately... It's THAT bad. There are less times there's a normal game than there are cheater games and it's disgusting.

It's highly likely that Valve collect info like you've mentioned and utilise it in Trust Factor. Means to an end.

[pawel]

Wtf is a MAC address? You mean IP address or hardware ID?

[Zeromix]

Originally posted by Puchająk:

Wtf is a MAC address? You mean IP address or hardware ID?

A MAC Adress is normaly the unique ID of your Network card.

[Zero]

You can't ban someone by MAC address. It's just used for routing IP addresses. An IP identifies you 100x better than the MAC address.

[76561199093003946]

IPs are, most often, dynamically assigned and -dunno- it would be great if buying a used computer would be banned from Steam, another thing for the seller (the cheater) to worry about. It's getting really tedious to have to quit maps when people don't want to kick the (very obvious and widespread) cheaters, meh.

... Even if it eliminated 1% of people (who wouldn't know, or be bothered to, spoof their MAC), that would still be hundreds, or in all likelihood even thousands of cheaters less. These days it seems that there are dozens per day, even though the ban messages are coming through for me in CS:GO again (after a brief pause, recently).

[RyouDeeLuLu]

you can ban by mac, hardware id and ip address. it should take into account those ranges. if valve can see you are using a vpn, it should auto kick you

[johndavisfl15]

They should not have made it for free. I hope they are releasing cs source 2 for 50 bucks and keep charging that amount of money for a few years.

[TATAKAE]

Hello yes i do

[graystripe]

Originally posted by kunc knuc:

you can ban by mac, hardware id and ip address. it should take into account those ranges. if valve can see you are using a vpn, it should auto kick you

Valorant already tried using Hardware ID ban.

look what happens in the end

a lot of people complain and the Developers of Valorant has to undo it.

if it failed for Valorant, then it means it won't work at all.

so in this case, ip address and mac address ban will also never work at all.

[fishski]

Originally posted by graystripe:

Originally posted by kunc knuc:

you can ban by mac, hardware id and ip address. it should take into account those ranges. if valve can see you are using a vpn, it should auto kick you

Valorant already tried using Hardware ID ban.

look what happens in the end

a lot of people complain and the Developers of Valorant has to undo it.

if it failed for Valorant, then it means it won't work at all.

so in this case, ip address and mac address ban will also never work at all.

It still works passively for TF anyway.