Valve does not forgive and expels AuronPlay from one of its games for cheating: “I am totally banned, for life”

The biggest update of one of the most famous online shooters is just around the corner. ‘counter strike 2‘ will be released this summer and will arrive as a free update to ‘CS:GO’. As the long-awaited date approaches, fans of the game begin to prepare, and some lucky ones can already enjoy a early trial.

It is not the case of AuronPlay.

The famous Spanish youtuber, whose channel is ready After you reach 30 million subscribers, you can’t play CS:GO from your main account, and you won’t be able to use it to play Counter-Strike 2 (although you wanted to). The reason is none other than the ban he has received for to cheat he at stake And, precisely, these types of bans from Valve are for life.

As collect our companions of 3D Games, AuronPlay told that he ended up banned: “I am banned (…) once I got cheats to play the fool, to play the fool, eh. One afternoon I was bored, I got caught, and I got banned. Well, I can’t play Counter-Strike for life.” As we can see, his actions were detected by Valve’s anti-cheat system (VAC).

And the streamer is completely correct. Users who have been banned in ‘CS:GO’ will not lose the ban with the arrival of the new game. That is, they will also the closed doors to the new ‘Counter-Strike 2’ and later versions if there were any. This is because VAC, while sometimes not identifying all cheaters, is strict.

Valve’s anti-cheat system is unforgiving

According to ban policy of the company, the bans on ‘CS:GO’ are “permanent, non-negotiable and Steam support cannot remove them.” As we can see, there is an alternative to appeal this type of automatic measures taken by the servers. Now, the punishment goes even further than not being able to play the aforementioned title.

Users who have been banned automatically lose access to their game inventory. As a consequence, not only will it not be possible to use the skins (in some cases valued in thousands of euros), equipment, patches and so on, but cannot be transferred to another account either. The only alternative to return to the game is to use a secondary account.

Although AuronPlay, and any other people that have been detected by VAC, totally banned, there is the possibility of circumventing this restriction using a alternate account, at least for now. “I’ve played Counter-Strike, I’ve played with another Steam account,” the streamer recounted in the same video in which he revealed the unfortunate ban.

It should be noted that anti-cheat systems are not something exclusive to CS:GO or Valve, but are present in many other online games. In fact, they are an important resource that developers have to prevent some users from harming the dynamics of the games by using cheats that are not allowed and improve their competitive advantages.

These systems, however, are not completely effective and do not always effectively detect the tricks used by users. To better gauge the presence of this type of tool in the industry, we can mention systems such as BattlEye, which is used in ‘PUBG: Battlegrounds’ and Easy Anti-Cheat, present in ‘Fortnite’ and ‘Apex Legends’, among others.

Images: AuronPlay | Valve

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