VAC banned for no reason?

fak he knows

Oh look. Somebody caught abusing steam gifts group feature to inflate their numbers is being rude before quitting.

haha made my day, you dont even know me nor what i do :D
no need to give to proof that i earn as much as you do....
you would be disappointed if you knew more cough

You need to re-examine how you interact with people on the forums. Merely falling short of full-on ad hominem attacks is not a useful measure of whether your contributions are useful.

I've read a few of your comments in this thread and you either have a clear intent to antagonize or are obtuse. Neither are necessary or productive.

You are correct in that there is no requirement to "be nice." There is a general guideline regarding the content of postings, however.

• When posting content, it should respect the privacy and rights of others.
  [Guidelines, line 6]

Freedom of speech is the rule until someone crosses the line into abuse.

Nice people finish well behind or don't finish at all.
But at least they helped someone finish first.
Someone has to be last.
Never has there ever been a nice World leader.
Maybe a PR person to stroke the egos of the followers.
This site is filled with followers all rubbing one out on each other.
I like to watch, sometimes throw a stone at one to see if it reacts.
All the nice advice opinions come to aid their fallen fellow follower.
It makes for great entertainment the upheaval that just words can make.
Let's riot and throw words of advice, opinions, and insults. I like humans.

How did I miss all of this? Hilarious shit.

Rawr!

I will thank you again for your insightful commentary so far, since really you helped me so much with your generic responses which were useless.

Thank you for being useless person with no life but other than to flame other people on SG forums who wrongly got banned on VAC.

ok you 2 need to get a room already.. Can I atleast watch?

Do you find comfort in trying to insult another person online? How does ones age reflect on their ability to accomplish a task? Have you watched Master Chef junior? Those kids are quite talented, I am sure they could also form a sentence made of words. So age can be taken out of the equation.
Is that an avatar of Archer? Why do you have a picture such as that? How do you relate your life to that of an animated show? Do you watch it? Does it entertain you? Do you sometimes wish you could be like that character? What traits do you find appealing in other individuals?

wahaha, sit down :)

That is sexist and much like a misogynistic fool to replay as such.

Not even with them if your account is valuable. If I'm not mistaken there was a case of mass VAC ban few years ago when a virus spreaded among players, it messed up with DLL and steam files triggering the VAC. If your friends are not the tech-savvy type and click on every "legit" link they find, the chance of getting viruses is high enough to be worried.

You are wrong in every possible way. How is wanting to be as profitable as possible a problem? You go to the job to get as much money as possible. Do you care if your boss can't buy a fast car because he has to pay to you? You think like a communist. "being profitable often means acting against the customers". Completly false. It eliminates customers and profits. Of course you can complain. But you are not entitled to anything. They're their own money and reputation and they can do whatever they want. As I said if you know better than them how to run a company why don't you run your own? Or are you already hired by some big company for $20000/mo to make such decisions?

You gave an example of AC Unity. They didn't give free stuff because people were complaining. They gave it because people were returning the game. THEY WERE LOSING THE PROFIT. Complaining changes nothing. People complain every Call of Duty game is the same. But they keep realising the same game over and over again because it sells. You are not forced to buy anything. Nobody was forced to buy AC Unity when it was broken. That's why they needed to fix it because smart people hadn't bought it. Unfortunately there are more dumb people than smart people. That's why they sometimes can sneak some shit on the market and still get a lot of profit. As a customer you also look for as much profit as possible by not buying shitty stuff, buying things on a discount, complaining to get better stuff for the same price. You are a problem for the company.

I'm not defending anyone. I'm just trying to explain to you why it is as it is. Think like a company. What would be better for a company. Making a whitelisted Half-Life 1 modifications for maybe 100, max 1000 people that use and will use Steam anyway and that will bring max 5 new customers or releasing Steam Machines, Steam Controller, etc. that will bring thousands of new customers? They would need to pay someone to make that changes to VAC getting max 5 new customers but the same employee could bring hundred customers by working on Steam Machines. I run a company so I know how it works. I sometimes rather break the contract, pay the fine and move my resources somewhere else because it's more profitable in the end. Other companies are sacrificing customers satisfaction because overall it's still more profitable for them.

Btw, putting trading cards on Steam is very, very easy. Almost every single newly released indie game has trading cards. It's very profitable for such small teams. Do you think they wouldn't put trading cards for such big games like Assassin's Creed but for games like Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas that had max 6 players at once?

Your economic knowledge is close to 0.

What you are asking for is a very inefficient use of manpower. We need Valve to make improvements to their customer service overall, not to improve people's ability to use shitty mods that aren't for cheating but function in much the same way as mods that allow you to cheat.

Basic security of the Steam client and appropriate measures meant to stem and reverse this tide of account hijacking are what we need. Hell, the steps they've taken so far (trading limits on gifts, optional but on-by-default email confirmation of trades) may do okay to reduce the attractiveness of stealing accounts and while it's not a perfect solution (perhaps not even a good one) it should be significantly more effective than nothing at all, and it actually puts a smaller burden on their terrible customer support.

On the other hand you want people to sit around examining code to whitelist so that a very tiny minority of players can have access to a very tiny minority of mods that should be coded better? What happens when the poorly-written mod that increases the size of the heroine's bosom by 175% is updated so that it has jiggle-physics, making it all the more faptastic? Needs to be whitelisted again.

Waste of time. No thanks. Let's hope Valve can get to the point where they can respond to every support inquiry within 24 hours, improve security of the main client, and make it more difficulty for marks to get their accounts stolen and inventories emptied.

well actually no!
cause how are you going to whitelist a dll? via crc checksum? via md5 hash?
that is not possible cause you know that you can change that on the fly without any struggle atll!