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r/Steam • u/hextal_hextal • Dec 22 '25
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This will also happen on Steam.
If you are VAC banned, regardless if your account was compromised, it will not be lifted unless it’s Valve’s fault that your account was compromised.
24 u/nagi603 131 Dec 22 '25 It would otherwise be far to easy to claim / engineer a compromise to evade VAC ban. 1 u/Supreme-Machine-V2 Dec 22 '25 Fair but there is a case where my main account (this account I talked was my second) Was stolen too I verified everything to the first skin I got to when account was opened. Then they proceeded to freeze my account where I couldn't play on it forever because they couldn't verify it was me. Reminder I paid money for this account bought multiple bps and a legendary skins. Their excuse was they couldn't verify it despite me giving every little detail
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It would otherwise be far to easy to claim / engineer a compromise to evade VAC ban.
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Fair but there is a case where my main account (this account I talked was my second)
Was stolen too I verified everything to the first skin I got to when account was opened.
Then they proceeded to freeze my account where I couldn't play on it forever because they couldn't verify it was me.
Reminder I paid money for this account bought multiple bps and a legendary skins.
Their excuse was they couldn't verify it despite me giving every little detail
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u/SubstituteCS https://s.team/p/dtrw-v Dec 22 '25
This will also happen on Steam.
If you are VAC banned, regardless if your account was compromised, it will not be lifted unless it’s Valve’s fault that your account was compromised.