Valve Bans Nearly 90,000 Cheaters in a Week

Valve has gotten serious about banning cheaters and has done so in a very big way this week. Its anti-cheating countermeasures banned about 28,000 accounts on Wednesday. The countermeasures then upped its game and banned over 61,000 additional accounts on Thursday.

This makes last week the most prolific for banning cheaters in the history of the Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) system. That system has been operating since 2002 reports, Polygon, and rolled out with Counter-Strike. To date, Valve has over 300 games that support the anti-cheat tools.

Those titles include some of the popular games from Valve directly including Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2. It’s not clear what caused the tool to ban so many accounts in the past week, perhaps it was updated but that’s not clear at this time.

What we do know is that the bans are final and there is no appeal to get the accounts reactivated. Essentially that means once banned by VAC the account isnt going to play the game that it got banned from anymore.