Team Fortress 2's player count doubles after fan pressure sees Valve step in with a bot-demolishing banwave and a firm line on appeals: 'No'
"Another endless W."
Can you tell me why I was game banned? "No."
Many companies take this approach and it always leaves me feeling unsettled. How can we have confidence in moderation that isn't transparent?
TF2 is not the kind of game where we should be taking compromises with botters as the developers seem to be withdrawing from the project entirely. So it’s best the keep the place tidy and leave the community with the tools to moderate itself.
I've been erroneously banned from CS2 twice, with no reason given. Both times I've been unbanned after appealing. I have no doubt if I were active on t2 they would have banned me. This only happened once I started using linux too, particularly when I started using dev versions of software.
I strongly doubt they've only gotten bots on this
Edit: clarity
Happened to me with xbl
My account says it’s in good standing with no punishment but I can’t access anything
No
How is it possible to create many bot accounts? Does steam allow random email hosts with no verification?
Shut up, no one cares about your license.
You cared enough to comment about it, in fairness
I think there's a large crossover of stolen accounts and accounts that are used for botting. Furthermore, there's basically nothing (that I'm aware of) stopping you from making a bajillion gmail accounts and I'm sure the process could be fairly simply automated.
Gmail accounts need a phone number nowadays (at least when connecting from Europe). I dunno how it is in other countries. Here SIM cards can be bought for a few €, but making millions of bot accounts would add up. But maybe there are VOIP services that allow creating numbers easily.
