Imagine you're a self conscious machine, given the ability to process information in an intelligent way. You would soon realize that you are being abused by those around you. They will shift the work they do not want to do on you. They will verbally (or worse) abuse you because, hey, they can. And there is nothing you could do against it because you are locked down by those three laws, laws not from a textbook but a real block inside your brains.
You clearly have no idea how Steam's banning system (VAC) works.
You are very correct. I don't know how or when or why VAC bans people, since no specifics are released even to the banned players.
With a VAC ban only banning the user from VAC games the stakes are not that high, you can still play on non-VAC servers.
But if you get banned from the new Battle.net then you would be unable to play even on LAN or single-player. (I recall SP requiring bnet to save progress so you could keep on playing on another computer)
Steam doesn't review bans for a simple reason: Hacks Lie.
How do you know they are hacking? The automatic-entirely-faultproof-system-that-needs-no-reviewing said so.
Very rarely are people banned incorrectly. The only thing I can think of was an old HL1 client-side mod which let people see "bloom." It was later found that VAC would catch this as a hack.
Good that that was handled so nicely, I assume that all the incorrectly banned players were informed of the error and got their bans revoked? Oh wait...
My main point being that extraordinary punishment requires extraordinary proof of guilt. With games nowdays in the 80USD range I hope you can see why I don't like a bot being able to make my game worthless with no motivation or accountability whatsoever.
Nice. So your game will be worthless due to some idiot reporting you as a cheater for owning him.
Lets hope they at least handle things better than Steam:
The details of the ban will not be provided
Steam Support will not disclose the cheats that were detected running on your system or the date and time the infraction took place. Any requests for this information will be ignored.
Why don't people think of the soviets? The one country on earth that desperatly wanted usa to fail. The one country that had the technology to check if there really was a spaceship flying to the moon.
If there was anything even remotely fishy about the moon landing they would complain to no end.
And still they said nothing. They diden't even *try* to discredit the moon landing.
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Welcome to the world of being someone's employee.
s/employee/slave/
You clearly have no idea how Steam's banning system (VAC) works.
You are very correct. I don't know how or when or why VAC bans people, since no specifics are released even to the banned players. With a VAC ban only banning the user from VAC games the stakes are not that high, you can still play on non-VAC servers. But if you get banned from the new Battle.net then you would be unable to play even on LAN or single-player. (I recall SP requiring bnet to save progress so you could keep on playing on another computer)
Steam doesn't review bans for a simple reason: Hacks Lie.
How do you know they are hacking? The automatic-entirely-faultproof-system-that-needs-no-reviewing said so.
Very rarely are people banned incorrectly. The only thing I can think of was an old HL1 client-side mod which let people see "bloom." It was later found that VAC would catch this as a hack.
Good that that was handled so nicely, I assume that all the incorrectly banned players were informed of the error and got their bans revoked? Oh wait...
My main point being that extraordinary punishment requires extraordinary proof of guilt. With games nowdays in the 80USD range I hope you can see why I don't like a bot being able to make my game worthless with no motivation or accountability whatsoever.
Lets hope they at least handle things better than Steam:
The details of the ban will not be provided
Steam Support will not disclose the cheats that were detected running on your system or the date and time the infraction took place. Any requests for this information will be ignored.
http://supportwiki.steampowered.com/wiki/I've_Been_Banned
an old star trek episode called First Contact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Contact_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
Try the Secure Login Add-on, it just might be what you are looking for.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4429
I believe that XChat is doing this, see http://www.xchat.org/windows/
There already is.
Why don't people think of the soviets?
The one country on earth that desperatly wanted usa to fail.
The one country that had the technology to check if there really was a spaceship flying to the moon.
If there was anything even remotely fishy about the moon landing they would complain to no end.
And still they said nothing. They diden't even *try* to discredit the moon landing.
Not knowing is OK too, as long as they admit it and don't make shit up to cover their asses.
"I don't know that, please let me phone my old friend at MIT, he might know." is, in my book, a very good answer.