Banned from playing steam games...

[Azndude2190]

It's been about a half year since I last played any steam game.Today I decided to catch up DOD once again.Thats when I noticed that my account was banned for a cheating infraction(DOD,CS,Richochet,and etc.).What gives?...Where do I go to complain?I can still play CSS.

 

[potato28]

Someone hacked your account, and used it for their cheating purposes... not so good.

 

[Azndude2190]

Can you explain this "hacking" process to me more?Dont steam accounts have passwords?Can I report this?

 

[potato28]

Yes they have passwords, but people can still hack them... by making general password programs... Steam can unban you if u have proof that you havent used your account in the past few months...

 

[JDrake]

You sure you weren't cheating/have a sibiling/child/SO that was cheating?

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: joedrake
You sure you weren't cheating/have a sibiling/child/SO that was cheating?

Or that.... do u play when ur drunk?

 

[Azndude2190]

Yeah.

I have no siblings.
No girlfriend.
And no I dont think I was drunk.

I dont even know where and how to cheat.

 

[PseudoKnight]

99.9% of the time the person actually had cheats on their computer when they were banned. People sometimes cheat on non-secure servers and then fail to clean up their computer properly when going back on a secure server and such. It's come up so many times on the Steam forums and it's almost always a legitimate ban. They can even look up your account and tell exactly which cheat you were using. (There were some really early cases of people being banned when they had faulty RAM, but that problem was resolved.)

It's highly unlikely someone got your password and decided NOT to steal your account.

But anyway, you can submit a support ticket to Valve to have them look at it and maybe reset your account. Don't expect any success though. You can still play on non-secure servers, btw.