Banned for no reason?

[Amy]

How often those ban "wave" happen?

Or how it's happen?


What its needed to call it a ban wave?
So many got banned for the recently added detected "hosting" tools for MW3, i have no problem with that since it was including hacks.

But why so many got banned at the same time when its use delayed ban?

Is it because it was used for so long so the person who were using it reached the maximum amount of time the delayed ban can be on like if it's reached the 2 months that normally max is a VAC ban?


I'm just curious about that...
Why VALVe don't try to do more wave ban? I know it's badly implanted into some games like MW3 but we need to blame activision, not VALVe.

Its would still be considered as delayed ban... I wonder if VALVe could test to do more wave ban and see if the % of persons caught is affected by a lot, in goodor bad.


Well, i woner that.

Thanks

[Tito Shivan]

Originally Posted by Amy

How often those ban "wave" happen?

Or how it's happen?


What its needed to call it a ban wave?
So many got banned for the recently added detected "hosting" tools for MW3, i have no problem with that since it was including hacks.

But why so many got banned at the same time when its use delayed ban?

Is it because it was used for so long so the person who were using it reached the maximum amount of time the delayed ban can be on like if it's reached the 2 months that normally max is a VAC ban?


I'm just curious about that...
Why VALVe don't try to do more wave ban? I know it's badly implanted into some games like MW3 but we need to blame activision, not VALVe.

Its would still be considered as delayed ban... I wonder if VALVe could test to do more wave ban and see if the % of persons caught is affected by a lot, in goodor bad.


Well, i woner that.

Thanks

Double reason:
1. slows cheat development: With faster ban waves cheat developers know faster what did 'switch' VAC on, and change it.

2. False sense of security: Cheaters get attracted as bees to honey because 'I've used this cheat for months and didn't get ban' Then, when cheaters get caught their usually waist deep in cheat crap

About the periods? nobody knows, random is random. The only thing sure is that not cheaters never get hit by the wave.

[Satoru]

Hard to say. It could be that there are periods of 'review' for the # of bans, what signatures they're tracking etc to ensure that false positives are minimal.

Also we may be mis-representing what a 'ban wave' actually is. Do we even really know? Is it because some idiot comes here and claims "I wuz baned?" The main problem is that we don't really have any data to even quantify what a ban wave constitutes or when it happens.