Kotaku: Steam Bans Over 40,000 Accounts

[Legend]

Kotaku: Steam Bans Over 40,000 Accounts - NeoGAF

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If you're gonna cheat, you might as well do it on the cheap. That seems to be the going line of thought among would-be cheaters in games like Counter-Strike, who risk losing access to games and even their accounts if they get caught. Valve, however, has caught on to the loophole. The day after this year's big Steam Summer Sale wrapped up, Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) auto-detected a whopping 40,411 cheating accounts, according to Steam Database (via Dot Esports). That's a record high, making the previous October 2016 record of 15,227 look like some dude in his pajamas with a fly swatter compared to a crack team of exterminators.

 

Originally Posted by Abilidebob
 
 

 
 Just took a look at https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/9/.  It's amazing.

 

[BasilZero]

Thats 40,000 more copies of CSGO to be sold in the next big sale l0l

[Legend]

Thats 40,000 more copies of CSGO to be sold in the next big sale l0l

WHy is that game still so popular? Has it changed much since release?

[BasilZero]

WHy is that game still so popular? Has it changed much since release?

Betting sites or those item selling sites I think where people trade items for real cash.

Its also got that Console Call of Duty popularity among PC players - where its active on YouTube/Twitch.

And yes its changed ALOT since its original release.

According to Steam Spy, it has....

 Owners: 30,492,326 ± 145,314

[the-pi-guy]

lol