Got Banned until 2038

[Om Swastyastu]

Hello, my account in Dota 2 just got banned forever. I hope that this is big mistake, my conduct summary is 8653. I never use any other application to play Dota 2. Also this is my only 1 account from 2012. I spend a lot of money and more than 3500 hours playing Dota 2. I like this game and since few months ago started to learn to play techies. I don't know what is real reason to ban my account, but please let me know what is happened and if it was mistake fix it. Thank you very much.

That was my message to steam help center, but I cant send it bcs of system error. Dota 2 online already down every month, a lot of acc buyers and smurf but they still can ban you by mistake. I also was a dota plus subscriber but who cares.

I believe that maybe reddit could help me to solve this problem, because I will not make a new account, this is very unfair.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

2038 is just a placeholder date.

It is actually a permanent ban for repeated rule breaking in Dota 2.

http://blog.dota2.com/2019/09/matchmaking-update-for-the-next-ranked-season/

[crunchyfrog]

To add to what Hotsauce correctly points out above, you're also wasting your time posting here as this is a USERS' forum - even the mods here are users like you and me. The ONLY way to contact Valve is through support ticket.

But bans are permanent, and they WILL have sufficient evidence. They do not ban without evidence. And even if mistakes happen (they are EXTREMELY rare) it gets corrected quickly.

[Black Cyclops]

I need more update about this Banned until 2038

[Shaggy]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Black Cyclops:

I need more update about this Banned until 2038

2038 is a place holder. The ban is permanent.

And your GAME ban has nothing to do with VAC or this forum

[nullable]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Black Cyclops:

I need more update about this Banned until 2038

The reason 2038 is used has to do with a 32bit unix time stamp counting the number of seconds since 1/1/1970, thing, and the number of a seconds a 32bit integer can old ends Jan 17ish 2038.

If it were a 64 bit unix timestamp that day would be millions of years in the future and I'd think it was hilarious if the mess said you were banned until year 10,000,000.

So I'm curious what Valve will do when 2038 is next year. And I wonder how many people will be eagerly awaiting for their ban to drop off and then fly off the handle when that number changes or goes away.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nullable:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Black Cyclops:

I need more update about this Banned until 2038

The reason 2038 is used has to do with a 32bit unix time stamp counting the number of seconds since 1/1/1970, thing, and the number of a seconds a 32bit integer can old ends Jan 17ish 2038.

If it were a 64 bit unix timestamp that day would be millions of years in the future and I'd think it was hilarious if the mess said you were banned until year 10,000,000.

So I'm curious what Valve will do when 2038 is next year. And I wonder how many people will be eagerly awaiting for their ban to drop off and then fly off the handle when that number changes or goes away.

Just like Y2K, most tech companies will wait until near the date in question to finally fix the issue.

[nullable]

Yes it's known as Y2k38, it's had a wikipedia page for like 20 years. I've been waiting a long time for it, and we're over halfway there.

I wasn't a software developer during y2k, but I am now, so I sure hope I don't end up fixing unix 32bit ttimestamps for a few years.

[Emma]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.