Did I get banned?

[Arâthel]

So I play this game in the mindset of a single-player person. I don't really care for times, and I would never try to cheat those times in. Considering the game isn't that long (well, at least if you just play through the levels with whatever time you get), I decided I want to have some cool looking Marbles to play with as I wasn't planning on playing that much more, considering I already finished the basic difficulty levels (Intermediate, Beginner, and Advanced).
I have indeed used cheat engine, to add some "gems" to get some cool marbles so i don't have to needlessly grind. But thanks to the "now I know about" anti-cheat system (should've suspected that considering the times tbh). The game just kicks me.
If I could get unbanned so I can finish the rest of the levels I would appreciate that. I don't care about the skins that much, just allow me to finish my nostalgia trip. (Back from the days of Marble Blast Gold)
Thanks for the potential responses in advance.

[seck]

Hello,

Yes you were picked up by or cheat detection, any form of memory injection will be picked up and banned. As you Have taken the time to admit what you did wrong I will unban you so you can continue to play.

If you really want gems, you can get 100 for every gold medal time. If you find a level easy enough to get a gold time it should be easy enough to aquire gems legitimately.

I'd also like to ask you very kindly to remove the negative review you left.

[𒐪⎝ Epylector ⎠𒐪]

I haven't cheated but this OP is very persuasive.

[WinningRun]

Originally posted by seck:

Hello,

Yes you were picked up by or cheat detection, any form of memory injection will be picked up and banned. As you Have taken the time to admit what you did wrong I will unban you so you can continue to play.

If you really want gems, you can get 100 for every gold medal time. If you find a level easy enough to get a gold time it should be easy enough to aquire gems legitimately.

I'd also like to ask you very kindly to remove the negative review you left.

Hey Seck,
I've also done the same thing. I just used cheat engine to glitch my gems as ive already completed most of the game. I'm sorry. I don't play online either, and you'll see my records are fairly paltry. No malice intentions to mess with other players. I just wanted some pretty marbles. Can you please un-ban me? I promise not to do it again. You are welcome to wipe my records as well, as punishment. lol

[seck]

Originally posted by WinningRun:

Hey Seck,
I've also done the same thing. I just used cheat engine to glitch my gems as ive already completed most of the game. I'm sorry. I don't play online either, and you'll see my records are fairly paltry. No malice intentions to mess with other players. I just wanted some pretty marbles. Can you please un-ban me? I promise not to do it again. You are welcome to wipe my records as well, as punishment. lol

I have unbanned you.

[Blind_Frog]

Hey @seck, found this thread cause I was looking why my kid got banned.. literally just happened. He LOVES your game and I don't understand why it banned him?? It won't even stay loaded now just shuts down. He was trying to buy a marble and it was glitched out so he was spamming the buy button. Have never used cheats. He has been getting REALLY GOOD too. Six years old and autistic, can't get enough of marble skies. Please help!

[seck]

Originally posted by Blind_Frog:

Hey @seck, found this thread cause I was looking why my kid got banned.. literally just happened. He LOVES your game and I don't understand why it banned him?? It won't even stay loaded now just shuts down. He was trying to buy a marble and it was glitched out so he was spamming the buy button. Have never used cheats. He has been getting REALLY GOOD too. Six years old and autistic, can't get enough of marble skies. Please help!

I have unbanned your account from the game.

Please make sure to remove Cheat Engine from your computer, or any sort of macro programs which may inject into the game as it will automatically detect something trying to cheat the game.

[Blind_Frog]

Originally posted by seck:

Originally posted by Blind_Frog:

Hey @seck, found this thread cause I was looking why my kid got banned.. literally just happened. He LOVES your game and I don't understand why it banned him?? It won't even stay loaded now just shuts down. He was trying to buy a marble and it was glitched out so he was spamming the buy button. Have never used cheats. He has been getting REALLY GOOD too. Six years old and autistic, can't get enough of marble skies. Please help!

I have unbanned your account from the game.

Please make sure to remove Cheat Engine from your computer, or any sort of macro programs which may inject into the game as it will automatically detect something trying to cheat the game.

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have 0 cheats and 0 cheat programs installed but thank you for the advice. I think what happened is it glitched during buying a new marble skin (he almost has all of em..) so he was spamming the "yes" button and I loaded a map to see if maybe it would fix it and it didn't ha. Thank you very much though. Such a great game! We need more! Lol

[Zeugziumy]

Originally posted by seck:

Originally posted by Blind_Frog:

Hey @seck, found this thread cause I was looking why my kid got banned.. literally just happened. He LOVES your game and I don't understand why it banned him?? It won't even stay loaded now just shuts down. He was trying to buy a marble and it was glitched out so he was spamming the buy button. Have never used cheats. He has been getting REALLY GOOD too. Six years old and autistic, can't get enough of marble skies. Please help!

I have unbanned your account from the game.

Please make sure to remove Cheat Engine from your computer, or any sort of macro programs which may inject into the game as it will automatically detect something trying to cheat the game.

Hi. I also got banned due to a similar bug. I do not use macro programs, and I don't even have Cheat Engine on my computer. After purchasing some marble skins, it just banned me for no reason.

I assume the bug was similar, I attempted buying some skins and it seems the connection wasn't stable, as the skins weren't being purchased. I made a thread about it here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/742460/discussions/0/3881597531961176117/

If I were to assume, the game may have thought I had a higher amount of gems than I actually have on the servers. It may have triggered a double purchase when I only attempted to buy it once.

It seems there has been at least 3 people with the same store bug. I wouldn't matter much if I had this ban but still could play, and get Steam achievements.

There was Blind_Frog from the thread, me from the discussion I posted, and this other reviewer, all with the same bug: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198142531409/recommended/742460/

Edit: Originally I thought I couldn't play the game anymore due to being banned, as there was a giant message and a blur blocking my gameplay. It seems that after restarting the game the message disappears.

[STX****]

Good evening, I have a problem with Marbles on stream
I was quietly watching a live stream of my favorite streamer, when suddenly he starts to get into Marbles on stream, in racing mode. And every time I put !play it appears that I'm banned and won't let me participate in the race.
Please I need help.

[MikeFulton]

Originally posted by seck:

Hello,

Yes you were picked up by or cheat detection, any form of memory injection will be picked up and banned. As you Have taken the time to admit what you did wrong I will unban you so you can continue to play.

If you really want gems, you can get 100 for every gold medal time. If you find a level easy enough to get a gold time it should be easy enough to aquire gems legitimately.

I'd also like to ask you very kindly to remove the negative review you left.

Originally posted by seck:

Originally posted by Blind_Frog:

Hey @seck, found this thread cause I was looking why my kid got banned.. literally just happened. He LOVES your game and I don't understand why it banned him?? It won't even stay loaded now just shuts down. He was trying to buy a marble and it was glitched out so he was spamming the buy button. Have never used cheats. He has been getting REALLY GOOD too. Six years old and autistic, can't get enough of marble skies. Please help!

I have unbanned your account from the game.

Please make sure to remove Cheat Engine from your computer, or any sort of macro programs which may inject into the game as it will automatically detect something trying to cheat the game.

I was doing a little pre-purchase research when I saw this message thread.

If the desired goal is to keep cheaters from ranking against other players, then isn't an absolute ban sort of a nuclear option and major overkill? Wouldn't it accomplish your goal to simply ban them from the rankings without disabling their ability to play solo?

[seck]

Originally posted by mfulton:

If the desired goal is to keep cheaters from ranking against other players, then isn't an absolute ban sort of a nuclear option and major overkill? Wouldn't it accomplish your goal to simply ban them from the rankings without disabling their ability to play solo?

This is what is done now, the autoban system has been disabled in favour of replay moderation.