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Sharpie The Dragon 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 5:28
Do you trust VAC because Valve is a reputable company?
Yes or no? There are several anti-cheat systems out there that give you zero power to appeal anything; It is essentially a system of guilty before proven innocent.

I do not. It seems to me that over the years a sort of culture has formed where VAC bans are considered near unanimously legitimate. Yet there is little to no evidence to back this up.

How do you know that the anti-cheat in question isn't falsely flagging users on a large scale?

How do you know that Valve will investigate or reverse these bans?

Out of the twelve million VAC banned accounts out there, how many do you believe are flagged correctly?

Where is your evidence for said above? How do you know that Valve didn't screw up thousands/millions of these bans and just abandon those that were flagged or were never even investigated?

You are never given a reason for your ban. It is simply 'Our systems detected that you cheated in a game'. Asking them to provide evidence is impossible, and attempting to make a case out of this is also impossible. You are putting your entire trust in a company not to flag your account and if you were to be flagged, to have them also investigate why the VAC ban happened.

If Valve VAC banned you today that you know that was falsely flagged, the community would overwhelmingly be in favour of the system. Yet this sub-forum is plagued with threads saying they were 'unjustly VAC banned.' I would be willing to imagine that some of these accounts are actually unfairly banned and will never be investigated.

Sadly, there is no evidence to go on for anything, even in the Reddit thread made by Gabe years ago; Don't worry; Trust us. - Over the years I have been reporting content on Steam, I have noticed a trend where reports are either ignored or backlogged by a massive amount of reports. In the L4D2 workshop for example, reports are never investigated; Because there is nobody there to go into the game and investigate the malicious content inside workshop items. I wonder if the VAC team is the same, perhaps being overextended with other things and having a really small team, and when false VAC bans trigger weeks later, they're already working on the next VAC update for a different game.

ArenaNet also had false bans that were never investigated until a certain player snooped around thanks to GDPR regulations (and even the company in question attempted to refuse this request).

I can't even compare VAC to anything else. Even Youtube's terrible copyright system has some sort of appeal process. You literally are at the mercy of a company with a trust system.
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Sharpie The Dragon 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 6:42 
引用自 6C²C^Guyver |NZB|
You have a VAC ban somewhere, so it's not hard to see where this is coming from or why you made this thread.

You have no evidence of this whatsoever. If I had a VAC ban, there should not be prejudice to the discussion.

引用自 6C²C^Guyver |NZB|
Further, if you're so distrustful of VAC and Valve, why have you spent 8 years on Steam?

I distrust VAC and almost every other anti-cheat software out there. With no means to appeal their decision, you effectively are guilty until proven innocent; And you cannot prove your innocence because you have no information to go on.

For Valve, it's a little more complicated. If I had the choice between playing my games and not using Steam, I would certainly be off this platform now. Unfortunately, DRM is a thing; And some of the games I own, require me to use Steam to play.

They have also refused to investigate addons that contained cheats within workshop items in Left 4 Dead 2 for half a decade. Things such as Texture hacks were okay to them until very, very recently when I called Valve out for it via a Reddit post, prompting them to change the system; Which effectively removed all addons in competitive modes (not what I asked for).

They also do not take cyber bullying seriously. Their games are known for having very toxic environments. In Left 4 Dead 2, I've had death threats, my IP being revealed, people griefing and team killing, ect.

And back when my internet died a few years back, I couldn't play ANY of my games for two months because I had no internet, back then you needed to go online to go offline, still griped about that.

I could go on, but this is not a thread for my grievances.
最后由 Sharpie The Dragon 编辑于; 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 6:45
C²C^Guyver |NZB| 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 6:51 
引用自 Sharples
引用自 6C²C^Guyver |NZB|
You have a VAC ban somewhere, so it's not hard to see where this is coming from or why you made this thread.

You have no evidence of this whatsoever. If I had a VAC ban, there should not be prejudice to the discussion.

引用自 6C²C^Guyver |NZB|
Further, if you're so distrustful of VAC and Valve, why have you spent 8 years on Steam?

I distrust VAC and almost every other anti-cheat software out there. With no means to appeal their decision, you effectively are guilty until proven innocent; And you cannot prove your innocence because you have no information to go on.

For Valve, it's a little more complicated. If I had the choice between playing my games and not using Steam, I would certainly be off this platform now. Unfortunately, DRM is a thing; And some of the games I own, require me to use Steam to play.

They have also refused to investigate addons that contained cheats within workshop items in Left 4 Dead 2. Things such as Texture hacks were okay to them until very, very recently when I called Valve out for it, prompting them to change the system; Which effectively removed all addons in competitive modes (not what I asked for).

They also do not take cyber bullying seriously. Their games are known for having very toxic environments. In Left 4 Dead 2, I've had death threats, my IP being revealed, people griefing and team killing, ect.

And back when my internet died a few years back, I couldn't play ANY of my games for two months because I had no internet, back then you needed to go online to go offline, still griped about that...


Do you realize that if Valve did give info on what caused bans, it would lead to undetectable cheats? Who wants that? I don't.

VAC existed before Steam. So, you've had plenty of time instead of waiting until now to distrust it.


You don't understand how VAC works, so you assume it's wrong. We get these threads every week.
最后由 C²C^Guyver |NZB| 编辑于; 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 6:51
Sharpie The Dragon 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 6:57 
引用自 Snaggle
引用自 Sharples
I'm also seeing the same people month after month in Left 4 Dead 2 consistently evade VAC on secured servers, it looks like these priorities are focused on more demanding games instead, this tells me they're lacking in people.
Honestly that's just business priorities in action and you'll get that with almost any company.

L4D2 is an old game now and generates little revenue for Valve. CSGO and DOTA are the big players these days and it's in Valves interest to focus their energy on these titles over the others. Valve isn't going to hire a big group of devs for each and every game that uses VAC. They are a business afterall and a business needs to make money. Hiring extra people to work on detecting cheats for a game with a small userbase compared to others isn't exactly the best choice.

Would seem to make sense despite Left 4 Dead 2 being one of the most played games on Steam. I believe VAC is years out of date in Left 4 Dead 2 now, so it's in desperate need of an update. Seeing cheaters are three or so games becomes common in the Versus game mode.


引用自 Snaggle
Neither you, me or anyone else here knows how the VAC team investigate bans. To assume it's down to staff or that bans are manually checked or whatever is simply guess work. It might be that way, or it might be that a system that has been in existence for 10+ years actually has a fairly quick and streamlined method for dealing with what could be hundreds of potential support requests each day.

I wish we had more information on this. If we did, I would be in favour of VAC, but as of right now, trusting a company to not have a potentially broken system is too much for me.
C²C^Guyver |NZB| 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 6:59 
VAC is always updated....you thinking it's not updated, doesn't make it so.

...and you don't distrust them that much or you would not be using their platform.
最后由 C²C^Guyver |NZB| 编辑于; 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 7:00
Sharpie The Dragon 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 7:04 
引用自 6C²C^Guyver |NZB|
Do you realize that if Valve did give info on what caused bans, it would lead to undetectable cheats? Who wants that? I don't.

Not really, because the cheat makers are already in a cat and mouse game with VAC. They are already testing the waters, that is how several sites out there are able to stay ahead of the system that VAC has to offer. While the average Joe who is falsely banned can't appeal his case, can't request to know what triggered the ban and has to rely on the VAC team to 1. Look into the false flag, find the cause and then revert the bans. If they even look into the false bans or are simply too busy doing something else.

引用自 6C²C^Guyver |NZB|
VAC existed before Steam. So, you've had plenty of time instead of waiting until now to distrust it.

What? You suddenly think I started distrusting VAC out of the whim? You are wrong.


引用自 6C²C^Guyver |NZB|
You don't understand how VAC works, so you assume it's wrong. We get these threads every week.

And this is coming from a guy who accused me of having a VAC banned account for disputing what VAC does. Of course, criticising VAC surely means I must be cheating! Take note of the culture VAC has formed with users that I outlined in the OP.

I am NOT anti-cheater, and I CAN in fact, show posts to prove this (1) (2). I am against lack of hard evidence to go on.

引用自 C²C^Guyver |NZB|
VAC is always updated....you thinking it's not updated, doesn't make it so.

...and you don't distrust them that much or you would not be using their platform.

Where is your evidence for this?

I use their platform because I am forced to play some quite fun games that are otherwise unavailable non-launcher. I simply would not be using it otherwise. This has nothing to do with VAC.
最后由 Sharpie The Dragon 编辑于; 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 7:14
C²C^Guyver |NZB| 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 7:15 
Where is your proof that is isn't? You made the thread, you're making the bogus claims. The burden of proof is on you. It gets updated or the 99.9% of these unban threads wouldn't exist.
最后由 C²C^Guyver |NZB| 编辑于; 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 7:15
Sharpie The Dragon 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 7:20 
引用自 C²C^Guyver |NZB|
Where is your proof that is isn't? You made the thread, you're making the bogus claims. The burden of proof is on you. It gets updated or the 99.9% of these unban threads wouldn't exist.

Again, you have no evidence for this. As for my proof, I don't need to; Because there is no hard evidence to go on. Therefor, I distrust VAC. Besides, even if it were constantly updated, it still doesn't change the fact that it's not giving users a drop of information to contest their ban.

You may or may not know I am making bogus claims because there's no hard evidence to prove it. To me, it sounds like you too, are making bogus claims, because again, there's no evidence.

You also did not read what I said. I play Left 4 Dead 2 and cheaters are getting away with evading VAC, I know this because I've been seeing the same players month by month. I'd link them but that would be name and shaming, not allowed here.
最后由 Sharpie The Dragon 编辑于; 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 7:23
Zaskar 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 7:21 
引用自 Sharples
Not really, because the cheat makers are already in a cat and mouse game with VAC. They are already testing the waters, that is how several sites out there are able to stay ahead of the system that VAC has to offer. While the average Joe who is falsely banned can't appeal his case, can't request to know what triggered the ban and has to rely on the VAC team to 1. Look into the false flag, find the cause and then revert the bans. If they even look into the false bans or are simply too busy doing something else.

Like you've been told, you just don't understand(or don't want to) how VAC works. If a simple ticket to the Support would make you know exactly what cheat got you banned, cheatmakers would instantly know what exact cheat is detected and could start working on it again. If they refuse to say why people get banned, cheatmakers don't know what is detected so more people who use cheat would use the detected cheat and get caught.

Also, what makes you think that a lot of VAC bans are false? Just because someone says he doesn't do anything doesn't make it true. Newsflash for you: people lie a lot.
最后由 Zaskar 编辑于; 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 7:22
VAC kind of works like a virus scanner and there are no doubt some false positives, but they would be hard to produce.

And yes I have seen unbans from an appeal to support. If you read enough threads in this forum you can find accounts that were banned and no longer are. The moderator said the ban is permanent and locked the thread, but OP no longer has a ban at all.

Do I trust VAC? To do what it is designed to, yes. Do I trust support to look into a possible error, sure do.

Could it be better, for sure, anything made by humans can be improved upon and that is the job they are constantly doing. You can't just build an anticheat that works and walk away.

Sharpie The Dragon 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 7:30 
引用自 Zaskar
引用自 Sharples
Not really, because the cheat makers are already in a cat and mouse game with VAC. They are already testing the waters, that is how several sites out there are able to stay ahead of the system that VAC has to offer. While the average Joe who is falsely banned can't appeal his case, can't request to know what triggered the ban and has to rely on the VAC team to 1. Look into the false flag, find the cause and then revert the bans. If they even look into the false bans or are simply too busy doing something else.

Like you've been told, you just don't understand(or don't want to) how VAC works. If a simple ticket to the Support would make you know exactly what cheat got you banned, cheatmakers would instantly know what exact cheat is detected and could start working on it again. If they refuse to say why people get banned, cheatmakers don't know what is detected so more people who use cheat would use the detected cheat and get caught.

So let's just say I use an aimbot cheat and then get flagged a few weeks later by VAC. As the cheat maker, I immediately know why I've been VAC banned, because I was the one that cheated with the exact cheat in mind. And the other people within my cheat community also report that the cheat they bought containing the aimbot had also been flagged. So I will make the appropriate actions to immediately start changing the cheat. Asking Steam Support doesn't confirm anything to the cheater; He already knows.

引用自 Zaskar
Also, what makes you think that a lot of VAC bans are false? Just because someone says he doesn't do anything doesn't make it true. Newsflash for you: people lie a lot.

That's not what I'm trying to get across. The question I'm asking is that can you really put your trust into a company that isn't willing to give you any hard evidence on why you've been flagged? For me, no. I don't trust them. Frankly I don't trust any anti-cheat system out there that uses a trust system, in the OP I linked one particular case where ArenaNet were exposed for false flagging users and one user in question found this out thanks to GDPR regulations. Yet this is the same type of system that companies like Valve use.

引用自 Xite >X<
VAC kind of works like a virus scanner and there are no doubt some false positives, but they would be hard to produce.

And yes I have seen unbans from an appeal to support. If you read enough threads in this forum you can find accounts that were banned and no longer are. The moderator said the ban is permanent and locked the thread, but OP no longer has a ban at all.

Do I trust VAC? To do what it is designed to, yes. Do I trust support to look into a possible error, sure do.

Could it be better, for sure, anything made by humans can be improved upon and that is the job they are constantly doing. You can't just build an anticheat that works and walk away.

That's interesting, thanks for sharing your opinion.
最后由 Sharpie The Dragon 编辑于; 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 7:33
C²C^Guyver |NZB| 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 7:35 
引用自 Sharples
引用自 C²C^Guyver |NZB|
Where is your proof that is isn't? You made the thread, you're making the bogus claims. The burden of proof is on you. It gets updated or the 99.9% of these unban threads wouldn't exist.

Again, you have no evidence for this. As for my proof, I don't need to; Because there is no hard evidence to go on. Therefor, I distrust VAC. Besides, even if it were constantly updated, it still doesn't change the fact that it's not giving users a drop of information to contest their ban.
The evidence is the numerous threads posted here 24/7....if VAC was not being updated, those numerous topics wouldn't be here. Simple enough. I'm out, you distrusting Valve, yet using Steam for 8 years is like someone sticking their finger in an electrical outlet and leaving it there.

If you distrust Valve that much...walk away...you literally have 16 games. Hardly that big of an investment, in a company you distrust so much....

...and of your 16 games, 3 use VAC.

No cheat = no VAC ban.



Sharpie The Dragon 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 7:47 
引用自 C²C^Guyver |NZB|
The evidence is the numerous threads posted here 24/7.... if VAC was not being updated, those numerous topics wouldn't be here. Simple enough.

These VAC 'updates' probably does include L4D2. Which is what I was referring to. In other games, with the amount of active players in CS:GO and Dota 2, yes. We can be in agreement with that. Though updating also brings the risk of more potential false flags.


引用自 C²C^Guyver |NZB|
I'm out, you distrusting Valve, yet using Steam for 8 years is like someone sticking their finger in an electrical outlet and leaving it there.

No. Being active for how many years has no effect on it. I could be using Steam for a couple of months, a couple of years. Doesn't matter in the slightest. I still need to use Steam to play the games in my library. I bought Black Ops I back in 2010 so I could play multiplayer with a family member. It is simply impossible otherwise. Would you forfeit paying your rent to your home if the council did not fix your electrical system? Of course you wouldn't. I'm not going to give up the games in my library in order to leave Steam.

引用自 C²C^Guyver |NZB|
If you distrust Valve that much...walk away...you literally have 16 games. Hardly that big of an investment, in a company you distrust so much....

There is a reason I am so minimalist in my purchases on a launcher. I have loads of other games on my hard drives that do not require Steam. Yet some games still do, which is why I still have to use Steam. Come to think of it, why are you so persistent in this? What in the world does this have to do with VAC?

引用自 C²C^Guyver |NZB|
...and of your 16 games, 3 use VAC.

The discussion is about whether or not you can trust VAC, not about how many of my games use VAC. If the game is fun enough, I will play it. Doesn't even require me to be online to play. You're poking at straws here. I bought these VAC games nearly a decade ago.

引用自 C²C^Guyver |NZB|
No cheat = no VAC ban.

You cannot confirm this.
最后由 Sharpie The Dragon 编辑于; 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 7:53
Zaskar 2019 年 6 月 19 日 下午 8:03 
引用自 Sharples
So let's just say I use an aimbot cheat and then get flagged a few weeks later by VAC. As the cheat maker, I immediately know why I've been VAC banned, because I was the one that cheated with the exact cheat in mind. And the other people within my cheat community also report that the cheat they bought containing the aimbot had also been flagged. So I will make the appropriate actions to immediately start changing the cheat. Asking Steam Support doesn't confirm anything to the cheater; He already knows.

Most cheaters use more than one cheat at a time. Those selling cheats doesn't have only one thing in them. So, when you get banned, you can't know for sure which one was detected. But if you could simply ask the Steam Support, you would know. That's what you seem to have a lot of trouble to understand.



引用自 Sharples
That's not what I'm trying to get across. The question I'm asking is that can you really put your trust into a company that isn't willing to give you any hard evidence on why you've been flagged? For me, no. I don't trust them. Frankly I don't trust any anti-cheat system out there that uses a trust system, in the OP I linked one particular case where ArenaNet were exposed for false flagging users and one user in question found this out thanks to GDPR regulations. Yet this is the same type of system that companies like Valve use.

You were explained why they don't give hard evidence on why you've been flagged. You not wanting to understand or simply don't like it doesn't mean it is a bad thing. Also, talking about the ArenaNet thing is completely irrelevant since it has nothing to do with VAC or Valve.
Sharpie The Dragon 2019 年 6 月 20 日 上午 4:53 
引用自 Zaskar
So let's just say I use an aimbot cheat and then get flagged a few weeks later by VAC. As the cheat maker, I immediately know why I've been VAC banned, because I was the one that cheated with the exact cheat in mind. And the other people within my cheat community also report that the cheat they bought containing the aimbot had also been flagged. So I will make the appropriate actions to immediately start changing the cheat. Asking Steam Support doesn't confirm anything to the cheater; He already knows.

Most cheaters use more than one cheat at a time. Those selling cheats doesn't have only one thing in them. So, when you get banned, you can't know for sure which one was detected. But if you could simply ask the Steam Support, you would know. That's what you seem to have a lot of trouble to understand.

The business with cheat making is profitable for a reason. If cheat makers were to suddenly be denied business because VAC had adapted to what they did, the cheaters obviously wouldn't be happy. The cheat makers know consistent updates are coming in very demanding games such as CS:GO and will already be adapting and predicting to what the future VAC update will change.

At the very least, VAC bans that have lasted for about a year should have information revealed as to why the ban triggered; I'm pretty sure VAC would've adapted way beyond the version the ban was triggered at, rendering any cheat maker questioning useless. This would at least give users the chance to appeal their ban once they have sufficient information to contest it.


引用自 Zaskar
You were explained why they don't give hard evidence on why you've been flagged. You not wanting to understand or simply don't like it doesn't mean it is a bad thing.

You are right, but in my opinion, it is a bad thing for potential people out there that are falsely flagged by a system that nobody other than the company can investigate. Which leads me to the other quote below.


引用自 Zaskar
Also, talking about the ArenaNet thing is completely irrelevant since it has nothing to do with VAC or Valve.

It is not completely irrelevant because both systems go under trust with the consumer and the company. If a player did not investigate the cheat detection themselves via information from GDPR, they would have never been unbanned, and this isn't counting the other players that were also banned in the process. They would have stayed unjustly banned with nobody on the other end wanting or caring to investigate the flaws of the anti-cheat detection system.

Yet Valve has never had a leaked VAC scandal aside from a possible violation of privacy (a Reddit post over five years ago) because their doors are so closed than nobody but themselves know.

How can we expect Valve to do the same when there is evidence to stipulate that this type of system is flawed?
最后由 Sharpie The Dragon 编辑于; 2019 年 6 月 20 日 上午 4:58
ElvisDeadly 2019 年 6 月 20 日 上午 4:58 
If you dont want to risk it no one forces you play a VAC enabled game.

Its their house it's their rules.

VAC is an anti cheat system used for certain games. If i had no faith in the system i would choose to not play those games and play other games instead.

You aren't entitled to any further explanation of the system beyond what Valve chooses to give you
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