Most embarrassing game to get a VAC ban from?

[GRIMM]

Really any VAC ban should be embarrassing. But what would be the single most embarrassing one to get a VAC ban from?

I looked at the list of games that are VAC enabled, and saw some silly games on there that I would not have thought had been VAC enabled, and then I saw it. Critter Crunch. A cute little puzzle game (which is actually quite fun). I can just imagine someone with a VAC ban crying (like they always do) and saying they swear they did not cheat... at Critter Crunch.

It's funny to read the VAC forum sometime, and it makes me wonder in some cases, just which games they actually got their ban from. I'm sure most of the time its a Valve game, or something like Call of Duty, Rust, or some other competitive game.

But who in their right mind would ever make the effort to cheat online with a game like Critter Crunch. Have you heard of someone being vac banned for something sillier?

[B-o-B]

I'm thinking there would be something worth to do it in those types of games, for a dev to consider employing it. A Ladder, Global score board, something to protect the legit gamer.

However.

L4D-2: That's an Embarrassment FULL STOP

But

CS:GO: so random a game "at first" that most gamer's can't handle the learning curve <---that's Uno big embarrassment as a gamer, producing fail of course.

All from a gaming point of view, don't get excited and all real life on me thanks.

[Cathulhu]

100% Orange Juice.
A anime style board game.
People did get banned in it.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The time where a game dev game banned a bunch of accounts even though they never owned it. All the false bans were removed though.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Getting one in any game is stupid, not embarrassing.

[GRIMM]

Początkowo opublikowane przez C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Getting one in any game is stupid.

Thank you, Captain Obvious!

Początkowo opublikowane przez C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

not embarrassing.

Stupidity in that context itself is embarrassing.

And you are taking this topic waaaaaaay too seriously.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Początkowo opublikowane przez DM₃₆:

And you are taking this topic waaaaaaay too seriously.

This topic shouldn't even be here.

[Random Ryan (RETURNING SOON!)]

It’s embarrassing to get banned in any game. I mean it’s so dumb to see people cheat on their main accounts and risk losing all their progress.

[Jake]

I'd say fistful of frags

[The Giving One]

How do you know what game a user's account is VAC banned in ? Sure, they might openly state the name of the game but that does not necessarily mean it's 100% true.

No one can "see" what game another account is banned in, unless that person actually has access to that account's VAC information found in settings or from the "info" button next to the ban notice, actually clicked on by the user of that account.

Personally, I don't really see a difference, to be honest. A VAC ban is a VAC ban is a VAC ban. Just my opinion, though. Also, we here know there are other ways for an account to earn a VAC ban rather than the rightful user actually doing the cheating to cause it.

So it's not so black and white.

EDIT...........

Początkowo opublikowane przez DM₃₆:

But who in their right mind would ever make the effort to cheat online with a game like Critter Crunch. Have you heard of someone being vac banned for something sillier?

To be perfectly honest, having an account banned due to phone number sharing.

Family sharing, I can understand a little bit. But phone number sharing ? That is completely silly.

Yes, this is not addressing the actual point of "what game", but it is silly to get your account VAC banned because you were sharing your phone number with another account that someone else is using and has full access to (and that actually did the cheating to cause all accounts using that number to be banned) .

[Samoa]

idk. but I hope the game keep banned hacker

[Jelly Donut]

Any game. Because a VAC record is already embarrassing.

[Naruto 607]

Ever thought of someone was banned by VAC and then asked/pleaded to be removed because it was incorrect? I've seen legit bans most of the time, but they can't just accept the fact that they've banned and move on. Little honest VAC-banned folks told their true story, though.

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Początkowo opublikowane przez DM₃₆:

And you are taking this topic waaaaaaay too seriously.

This topic shouldn't even be here.

Gotta ask a question, how many topics like this do you hear everyday? You seem like a person who knows this discussion more than I do, because I've seen folks like you telling VAC-banned users to just forget why they're banned and move on.

[GRIMM]

Actually, this topic did not start here. A moderator moved it here.

[Jake]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Naruto 607:

Ever thought of someone was banned by VAC and then asked/pleaded to be removed because it was incorrect? I've seen legit bans most of the time, but they can't just accept the fact that they've banned and move on. Little honest VAC-banned folks told their true story, though.

Początkowo opublikowane przez C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

This topic shouldn't even be here.

Gotta ask a question, how many topics like this do you hear everyday? You seem like a person who knows this discussion more than I do, because I've seen folks like you telling VAC-banned users to just forget why they're banned and move on.

Unfair bans are removed automatically.

[The Giving One]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Naruto 607:

Ever thought of someone was banned by VAC and then asked/pleaded to be removed because it was incorrect?

Sure, happens here each and every day. But all that is pointless really, as VAC will take care of those cases all automatically.

And ask who, by the way ? Steam Support ? They can't even remove the ban anyway, since again, VAC does that automatically if it is found to be incorrect.

VAC bans are permanent, non-negotiable, and cannot be removed by Steam Support.

If a VAC ban is determined to have been issued incorrectly, it will automatically be removed.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7849-RADZ-6869

Początkowo opublikowane przez Naruto 607:

Little honest VAC-banned folks told their true story, though.

Not really sure what you mean here to reply fairly, but assuming you mean their story is relevant.....it isn't.

Again, more simply explained :

Ban somehow found by VAC later to be incorrectly applied = automatically removed.

Ban was found to be correctly applied by VAC as all VAC bans are checked by the system (again, automatically) for accuracy = ban remains and is permanent.

Incorrectly applied VAC bans are extremely rare. But this thread is not really about correctly applied and incorrectly applied VAC bans. It's about what game or reason was the most silly to be the cause of a VAC ban.

I still vote for phone number sharing as the most silly. It's not a "game", but it is a cause, as the OP did ask that also :

Początkowo opublikowane przez DM₃₆:

Have you heard of someone being vac banned for something sillier?