Interesting Steam News - 20,000 accounts banned!

[SumoHamster]

I know some of us have PCs also and have played Half-Life 2. I thought it was interesting that Valve is already actively banning accounts. And not just a few, a TON!

The short summary is that apparently a certain cd key was used by, well, 20,000 accounts and they are in the process of banning them. The long version is in the following link:

http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=184810&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

[Lord Blackadder]

That's nothing, you should see the account-banning action that constantly goes on on Battle.net with Diablo II - insanity, tens of thousands a pop. Still, 20,000 people on the same CD-key, LOL!

[SumoHamster]

That's nothing, you should see the account-banning action that constantly goes on on Battle.net with Diablo II - insanity, tens of thousands a pop. Still, 20,000 people on the same CD-key, LOL!

Do that many people still play Diablo II? I loaded it back up a few months ago and hated the graphics. I know gameplay > graphics, but I couldn't look at it any longer :)

[benpatient]

beautiful. I hope that clears out a bunch of the hacking cheaters in CS:S...they were trying to ruin everything for me...

[MrMacMan]

beautiful. I hope that clears out a bunch of the hacking cheaters in CS:S...they were trying to ruin everything for me...

Please, hacking has always been around.

OGC back in the day man, best cheating device evar. :D

[Santaduck]

the issue here is in their interesting application of antipiracy measures...

The most common pirate is the least-common-denominator variety (n00b pirate or n00b hacker), and Steam seems to be catching most of those.