Was just browsing the Steam Sale when all of the store pages started telling me I was VAC banned and I would not be able to play the multiplayer portion of the game if I bought it (even on single player games).

Obviously I panicked... don't even play games on-line much but as a part time games journalist I need to review multiplayer games for my site and as this steam account has over 2.5k games I do not fancy starting a new one.

Checked my account settings.... hhmmm... good standing.... not VAC banned......

Checked a VAC search tool online.... ok not VAC banned..... WTF!?

5 minutes later the warning message on every steam page disappears.... leaving me with a still slightly racing heart and a half written email to Valve's customer support asking why the hell I was VAC banned when the last multiplayer game I played was about 3 weeks ago and I sure as hell didn't cheat.

Anyone else have this happen to them? or was t just for some bizarre reason my account?

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Yes, appeared for a short while on some store page.

The note will show up even if you are not logged in.

Seems to be immediately fixed.

Today is Tuesday, so you know the drill.

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Yup saw that too.

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it happened to me. Before the bug steam went offline for about a minute

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Yes, even be banned in a non-VAC game or single player game.

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makes me feel better it wasn't something screwy with my account :) thanks all

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seems like valve made a new money deal with a pharmasutical company that sells tranquillizers

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And, being typical Valve, they messed up putting up the advertisements for the tranqs :P

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Really weird, given that I've never played any games that even could have cheats. Glad it's gone now, but that was bizarre.

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+1 meow.

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damn you valve employee, you had to click on the "vac ban everyone" button ;_;

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