Moderator Action: Stop the piracy discussion, please.
Because Gamespy was Hitler incarnate.
But as for Civ5, nothing wrong with Steam as an anti-piracy software, it is simply awesome. It doesn't hinder us legitimate customers (those who aren't Steam Phobic anyway) in anyway, compared to other anti-piracy systems such as limited installs and so on.
It doesn't hinder you until a roaming Steam moderator closes your entire account for something ridiculous and you lose every game you purchased with no recourse of action.
Because that totally happens all the time. *rolls eyes*It doesn't hinder you until a roaming Steam moderator closes your entire account for something ridiculous and you lose every game you purchased with no recourse of action.
Because that totally happens all the time. *rolls eyes*
It doesn't hinder you until a roaming Steam moderator closes your entire account for something ridiculous and you lose every game you purchased with no recourse of action.
Thiers no such thing as a Steam Moderator. No one can walk along and ban you for no reason.
If you are playing online on Steam you will be playing on what they call "vac-secured" servers, and if you cheat, you know use hacks of whatever type, and someone records a demo of you doing it thus having proof you cheated, they can report you sending the demo into Steam and then they will "Vac-ban" your account. This will ban you from all Vac-secured servers, which means if you want to play multi-player you need to play on un-secured servers which will be full of cheaters who have also all been banned from playing with normal people, and thier is far less un-secured servers as Vavle doesn't provide any of them, so if you want to play on Steam, my advice is don't cheat because otherwise your Steam account with all your games will be wrecked from a multi-player prospective.
Though this is only a disadvantage to cheaters, to fair players like most people who don't use cheats this is a big advantage.
Other than Vac-Bans as they are called, nothing will ever happen to your account.
P.s Steam will never undo a Vac-Ban so don't cheat . If you don't cheat have fun gaming. Steam supports fair players.
Thiers no such thing as a Steam Moderator. No one can walk along and ban you for no reason.
If you are playing online on Steam you will be playing on what they call "vac-secured" servers, and if you cheat, you know use hacks of whatever type, and someone records a demo of you doing it thus having proof you cheated, they can report you sending the demo into Steam and then they will "Vac-ban" your account. This will ban you from all Vac-secured servers, which means if you want to play multi-player you need to play on un-secured servers which will be full of cheaters who have also all been banned from playing with normal people, and thier is far less un-secured servers as Vavle doesn't provide any of them, so if you want to play on Steam, my advice is don't cheat because otherwise your Steam account with all your games will be wrecked from a multi-player prospective.
Though this is only a disadvantage to cheaters, to fair players like most people who don't use cheats this is a big advantage.
Other than Vac-Bans as they are called, nothing will ever happen to your account.
P.s Steam will never undo a Vac-Ban so don't cheat . If you don't cheat have fun gaming. Steam supports fair players.
Actually I'm not sure Valve ever do reverse cheating bans. VAC is kind of limited tbh and uses very specific detection. They say its impossible for it to get false positives due to its not using a generalized cheat detection.