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Valve Bans Over 40,000 Steam Accounts For Cheating

If you've ever cheated at a game on Steam by using illegal software or hacking the game's online mechanics, now might be a good time to go see if your account is even still active. At the end of Steam's Summer Sale, Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) auto-detected 40,411 cheating accounts and immediately banned them from the service. This is the highest number of banned accounts the company has ever created, and that's saying something since the previous record was only set back in October 2016 with 15,227.

If you're curious what games get the highest amount of cheats, look no further than first and third person shooters as the highest offenders accounts included titles like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, H1Z1, and Player Unknown's Battlegrounds. On top of those bans, almost another 5,000 were banned from in-game reports. If you tally up all the money/gift items that were lost from those, you get a grand total of $9,580. (See, microtransactions do add up.)

At this point, it's just a matter of time for us to wait on Reddit and see how many people complain that they were banned unfairly, or how it sucks because they're the ones who "got caught this time" as if they're Dr. Claw vowing revenge at Inspector Gadget. You can seek out full details at SteamDB.info and Vac-Ban.org.

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