TF2 General Chat & Speculation Station V17 - Ms. Pauling Won't Stop Calling Me - Games

This is incorrect. It's a community ban -- all it does is reset and lock your steam name to your steamid64, resets and lock your avatar, privates your profile, and prevents you from adding friends. It does not stop you from playing games.

Snooped around a bit more and seemingly their main account is dead, but their alts aren't. Not to say more or post their shitty video but they quite literally just contacted steam support about this and got his alt unlocked, amazing. Let's see if this shitnugget get's proper treatment later.

I wish valve would auction off banned hacker's inventories. Maybe the money could go to charity or something too

Unfortunately, people like that can make an infinite number of alternate accounts to cheat and grief with.

Nice to see Light also got hit with a ban.

it's better than current bans, which literally only require creating a new account to circumvent

As funny as that'd be, there could be consequences of that. Technically, the items owned by an account could be considered that account owner's "property" so long as the servers for them exist. It would be technically feasible for a lawsuit to come into existence by the owner of the items. They don't need to be able to trade them or even be able to join servers with them - the items are tied to their Steam account. They'd need to change their guidelines pretty heavily to state that a community or VAC ban will relinquish ownership of any items in their inventory, and most likely would be legally bound to only do so for accounts going forward. This is why people aren't huge fans of the concept of people getting their Steam accounts outright banned and all games locked even if deserved - if a company is able to take claim of games or items in a game then that just makes it a valid argument that, while you've spent money on the games/items, they are not really yours.

Thank god that idiot got hit. Hell, they have videos where they'd even go as far as Dos attacking people while they live streamed ( including the Scout's Voice Actor ) to ruin their days. I can't believe people go to this length just to ruin other peoples time and fun...

You don't own your steam games. You own a license to play them. It's shitty, but that's why they can revoke your games. I'm also pretty sure you don't technically own your steam items, either. Valve has the ability to take away items, like when the cheaters lament thing happened. Although that's pretty old, so I'm not sure if they've changed policy about items.

Games going free to play was a problem. Having to pay for the game on your account I believe kept the amount of idiots down to a minimum because who's gonna dick around when you gotta pay to buy TF2 again? Now that anyone can just make another Steam account and hop right back in for free, it's all gone to shit.

having to pay isn't a deterrent either. it slows down the process and discourages a % of people from doing so, but isn't going to prevent anything. if people can burn $600 worth of tf2 items in a hacking account, they certainly can burn $600 worth of steam alts.

at that point, who's the real victim there?

Can confirm. A few weeks ago I went on a tour of every PL map in Casual. Encountered many cheaters. Some with new, disposable accounts. A surprising (to me) number with old, blinged accounts. I've actually done some research into the unseemly world of selling Steam accounts. I won't give any details, but it's possible to get a 15 year old Steam account with a few Valve games for the cost of about 2 mann co keys. Crazy. One notable cheater was wearing dual unusuals on his sniper and had an Isotope Bazaar Bargain. He wasn't hiding his cheats, either. He was full on rage hacking: viewlock, spinbotting, auto shooting, etc etc. Said cheater has a YT channel, but I sure AF ain't linking to it. I also encountered this fuck. I strongly suspect he's using the "N" word cheat. He only plays spy, gets a fantastic number of convenient "random" crits with the revolver and finishes off squishy (and not so squishy) targets with non-crit shots. A google search for his Steam ID reveals a bunch of public bans, including an automatic one for SMAC eyetest (aimbot). Weirdly, he lists himself as a FP member. Unrelated, Artifact managed to fall even further: https://i.imgur.com/VD2IdXo.png

I always had this on my head too since that 2017 banwave catching inventories worth of several thousands. Tips of the Hats would really appreciate those $400 - $2000 tf2 inventories lost in limbo now. Cheater banned, inventory sold, and at the same time they contribute to charity. Unorthodox and controvertial from a corporative viewpoint to put a finger in backpacks, but everybody wins here. Talking about controvertial, I would really like to see this happen and watch Valve set a new trend like it used to.

I also feel like the switch to F2P is kinda what allowed TF2 to live the absurdly long life it has thus far. As I recall it was one of the first big games to willingly make the switch as a power-move, rather than a last resort before dying. Just when it couldn't become MORE popular, it removed literally the only thing limiting its user-base, that being cost. Call it baseless speculation with the benefit of hindsight, but part of me feels like TF2 might have died years ago with so many other mid-2000's games if it didn't get that second wind.

Not to be pedantic, but that huge L word banwave was in 2016. The third anniversary is fast approaching: April 29, 2016 There was only one big ban wave in 2017, and it was very late in the year when the "N" word got detected for the first time. Not too many high profile backpacks got taken out, but one Frostbite Team Captain got locked (a fact that irritates me to no end.)

if you auction off those items nothing prevents the original owners from buying them again.

Depends on what you mean by "died". No developer support? Likely. Less players? Sure. But it always would have had a dedicated player base, even if smaller in comparison, like Left 4 Dead 2.

If JCapps wants to come out of the woodwork and give $5000 (or whatever) to charity to get his old burning TC back, is that really an issue?

Somewhere between these two years, I don't remember which one without digging into it. I follow your words if you already have the correct date, but with that aside there were some with... $2100? $2400? There were others around 800 in the next waves but eh, no system is perfect when it is new and if cheaters can sneak with another account to get their items back you now have a start point to improve from. That would be perfect. Buying your items back and keep cheating to be banned again and have your items auctioned, again. A self sustaining cycle.

People like him would never do it. If they have the cash to burn on a virtual hat and the lack of empathy to hack, then they aren't gonna want to donate to charity any time soon, even if they have greedy intentions.

Apparently that Unreal guy is also the creator of this nonsense: https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/a2i04n/someone_created_a_fucking_script_that_spams_every/?st=jpfxolnm&sh=d83a8ee9 Right in his Steam profile, "I'm n-not a no name!" (aka "give me attention")

Dont you just love how half r/tf2 is loving it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Artifact/ Well, I have to give these guys credit--they care more about their game than most TF2 players do.

The fact that Sparkles keep hacking means two thing: He has an incredible amount of time at his disposal and a rage boner against Valve. Or is a group of individual taking the name to continue spreading their shitty attempt to ruin games. What if Valve took legal action against he/them? If I remember correctly, Blizzard did something similar to the people that sold hacks and "ruined the possibility of an increased income for the game and the company due to the experience of new players being ruined by the software designed to hack" [I think it was something like that]

Imagine how boring your life must be that you get a dopamine rush by wasting money on cheats and rage hacking/crashing servers every day.

these people sadly have nothing better to do and the best part is because of their mindset it doesnt matter what happens, they continue the "haha, you got epic trolled!" mindset - because they totally don't have some kind of complex. Kinda like that image of an angry crying wojak that has a mask of a smug wojak.

That's why I refuse to believe it must be one single person. I have done petty stuff in my life, but cheating on a game, wasting cash and trying to get satisfaction by doing so? Unless Sparkles is actually 3-7 guys, then, that person has a serious, serious problem.

they're just another hacker who wants to get attention basically like any other hacker you've ever met in TF2

It's not about attention. Attention grabbing in video games is as easy as (these days) yelling slurs, being overtly racist, or just generally being rude, loud, and annoying. It's about control and satisfaction. Hackers like the control they have over every server they join, the ability to essentially bend the game to their will. I'm on mobile so i'm not going to get into it much more.