lol i wish the steam ban was like this :D

[lordofterror]

you know i came across this site recently lol what you do you think , should vac bans be like this ?
http://whywasibanned.com/

notice how the xbl enforcement instantly posts the reason , yet they enforce the terms so strict , but its foolish to think such a system would work on pc games cause of the sheer numbers .
they do hand out bans for hacking/cheating in games / achievement hacking / abuse etc

[Zefar]

While it's hilarious to read those bans it's not exactly a good thing for VAC to do that. The cheater would know what cheat got them banned.

Though in the start, a Valve employee named Taylor Sherman I think. He was known as The Sherminator. He owned up some people pretty good. The best one was one guy who had tried using fake names with a credit card.

So he posted a similar made up name the the guy hadn't used. The guy respond by adding in a name that was actually being used.

Such self ownage was priceless.

It works for them because it's a console ban.

[lordofterror]

ya since its a console , they can monitor pretty much everything that happens there but lol will it be fun to read if such a thing was at steam , but you are right the cheaters will know asap what banned them and will make 1.0b asap

[zodaex]

Originally Posted by Zefar

it's not exactly a good thing for VAC to do that. The cheater would know what cheat got them banned.

True but the end does not justify the means. It's better for 3 guilty people to get away with cheating than 1 innocent person getting a false ban.

[envirovore]

Originally Posted by Zefar

Though in the start, a Valve employee named Taylor Sherman I think. He was known as The Sherminator. He owned up some people pretty good. The best one was one guy who had tried using fake names with a credit card.

So he posted a similar made up name the the guy hadn't used. The guy respond by adding in a name that was actually being used.

Such self ownage was priceless.

Have all those threads/posts been purged by now?
When you saw Taylor posting in a thread, you knew it was going to be gold.

[Zukabazuka]

Originally Posted by envirovore

Have all those threads/posts been purged by now?
When you saw Taylor posting in a thread, you knew it was going to be gold.

That was about 4-6 years ago, so yeah its most likely purged over the time.

[porkshanker]

Some of these are pretty good. One of my favorites is the one by Boom1thewar where he tries to be slick and sneak in a threat by claiming to be a lawyer. I love that.

[lordofterror]

Originally Posted by porkshanker

Some of these are pretty good. One of my favorites is the one by Boom1thewar where he tries to be slick and sneak in a threat by claiming to be a lawyer. I love that.

read the one with judge judy

[MST3K]

I think this would be great IF Valve could make it work. It would not only silence all f the people complaining about not knowing what there ban was for, AND it would let the volunteers have a little bit of fun with it.

[Satoru]

If you actually read most of the xbox postings there they really fall into one of 4 categories

1) Avatar modification (skin/hair colour not allowed)
2) Gamertag or bio ban/suspensions (offensive or excessive amounts of violations)
3) Advertising modded lobbies or jtag stuff via profile or messages
4) A distant 4th, actual cheating

Note XBLPET people have to SEE the cheating before they institute a ban so you really have a fundamental limitation as to how many people get banned at any given time due to cheating.

Also xbox live as a service works a lot differently than VAC does from a functional perspective.

Don't get me wrong. The stupid stuff people say is amusing, and we get that a lot here to of 'why was I vac banned? i no cheat' kind of deal. But the system they have in place is great for banning users where the violation in asynchronous. Avatars/gamertags/bios can be checked enmasse and they even have an interesting system using the xbox controller to quickly run through violations of this kind extremely quickly. But as an anti-cheat mechanism it's not very effective and is not really designed to be that anyway.

[Limonov]

Xbl bans till 31/12/9999 LOL. Its not a pemrmanent ban its just till 9999.

[lordofterror]

Originally Posted by Limonov

Xbl bans till 31/12/9999 LOL. Its not a pemrmanent ban its just till 9999.

best part of all is everything you have in that account is forfeit, games , dlcs, points etc
vac is awesome just keeps the banned from the vac servers

[SniperInABush]

XBOX is mod 12 year old mod central. Although its funny to watch people get banned after they spent 50~~~ $ paying to be online.

[CZorg]

Anyone else notice a pattern in the games played by those people?
Mod and hacker infested game series... I own Blops and that's my biggest regret.

[Satoru]

Originally Posted by CZorg

Anyone else notice a pattern in the games played by those people?
Mod and hacker infested game series... I own Blops and that's my biggest regret.

Not really fair as pretty much every xbox player on the planet probably owns a copy of BO or MW3 or BF3. It's basically like saying because a kid had an xbox at home, the fact that they murdered their parents was because of the xbox.