Question about Steam Achivement Manager(SAM)

you can get vac ban using sam... and to be honest you should if you use it

No.

Earn it like a real man/woman.

That's lame

where is that confirmed?!
and yes, it will be ilegal, probably VAC bans, just re-play the game and have fun (use cheats if you want :D)

It still surprises me that people use the term "legal" when talking about ToS.

I use it all the time, just don't use it to get all TF2 achievements at once, all other games are fine though.

I use it on tf2 to reset my achievements once I get most of them. Never got banned or warned.

Turut berduka gans :norose:

Ane dulu pernah pake sekali pas Winter Sale sampe sekarang masih aman2 aja :Yb Tetep use it at your own risk sih hehe

Bingung bingung deh tuh bule :p

No, it's not.

Be careful, apparently you can get banned from S.Gifts chat for just talking about SAM, let alone linking to it.

Not fair at all. =(

No one ever got banned using SAM outside of VAC secured servers, and if you are using SAM while in-game and on VAC server, than you deserve to be banned. As for Valve stance toward using it, officially they are against it, but they dont care that you unlock some pointless social hooks if you want them, they only time SAM was mentioned in correlation with bans was during coal hunt because cheaters used it on their alts to unlock coal, but those bans had nothing to do with SAM, they were banned for circumventing the coal distribution system.

tl;dr, its perfectly safe to use, no one cares

No, it isn't but you don't get banned.

My friend used SAM for those christmas achievements last year, he gots lotsa coal and ended up getting banned.

honhonhon

I've been using it since TF2 required achievements to acquire weapons. Just follow the simple instructions listed on it's site/readme and you won't have trouble.

If you use it, you deserve a ban

You can use it, you are not going to get any kind of ban. Don't listen to morons who say otherwise, they never tried S.A.M. and they're happy to re-earn all achievements.

Volunteer Moderator posted this in Steam forums: " SAM follows the rule Valve have with any other 3rd party programs, which is: "use it at your own risk". That being said, they do not seem to be considering it a way to cheat the system at the moment. However, they could change their minds and wouldn't have to let you know about it. If SAM allows you to unlock an achievement a game failed to unlock, then that's great. If you're using it to unlock all the achievements for a specific game, then you definitely missed the point of achievements. That's all.".

Dude, you violated the law

Maybe no ban for it, but I reported some users ;)

There will always be pathetic children (mentally) that are too awkward to actually achieve something. So, they wanna feel like normal people and the only way is too cheat.

No risks with SAM.

People who got sanctioned during the Christmas events where those who had dozens even hundreds of accounts which they used to farm all the free games.. Those deserved a lifetime ban for their main account. A shame they brought so much attention around SAM though.

I occasionally use SAM to unlock stuff on my only account which is more thant $2K worth. I wouldn't be using it if I thought there was any risk.

I've been playing PC games long before that trend of having achievements, stats and unlocks everywhere. I paid money for those games for Christ's sake. If unlocking an achievement grants access to weapons and stuff, I'll use SAM rather than spending a ridiculous amount of time trying to achieve a specific task.

Kids love achievements, I don't.

You will only get VAC'd if you are a retard, just read their FAQ.