This ban could have prevented KRIMZ from playing Flashpoint Season 2 and other official matches on his 10-year-old account.
However, it is still rather concerning that KRIMZ and other players’ accounts were banned for almost three full days. Valve was quick with the damage control and reversed the bans promptly. This fresh wave of bans has reignited the old discussion over shortcomings in Valve’s anti-cheat system. We are aware that some users have received game bans, and Valve will investigate those bans as well,” Esportal said. This means that simply signing into Steam from a cheating friend’s PC could result in a permanent and non-negotiable account ban, and this has become one of the most frequent excuses for players who are banned but deny any wrongdoing.
Heres a Tutorial on how to Remove your Steam VAC BAN for the Games youve got banne.
“We are happy to report that all players that received a VAC ban due to the conflict between VAC and Esportal’s anti-cheat have now had their ban removed by Valve. VAC detects the presence of familiar cheating programs on a player’s device, whether they are actively in use or not. After further testing it seems that the limit after which the VAC ban doesnt show up on player profiles anymore is around 2600 days (one of my friends with a 2550 days old VAC ban still has it show up on the profile but another with a 2611 days old VAC ban doesnt). Hello guys, A lot of people have been VAC banned in the wave this month. After three days, the portal was able to remove VAC ban from all the accounts with support from Valve. The matchmaking portal released a statement in which they confirmed that bans might be attributed to compatibility issues between VAC and the Esportal anti-cheat. Esportal is currently in talks with Valve to solve all the wrongly VAC bans on their platform. All VAC bans are permanent - Valve has a zero-tolerance policy for cheating and will not lift VAC bans on request.
When your account is unbanned you will keep all the skins on the account as well as rank from the current season. THIS WILL ONLY WORK FOR DEVELOPER/GAME BAN CASES.
Ironically, it was from using a 3rd party anti-cheat. Anything from Account sharing to cheating bans, both detection and manual cases. Krimz has been cleared from wrongly being VAC banned.