Forum thread: VAC actually caught mid-game?

I saw that message too years ago, the funniest part wasn't the ban itself but the guy who got banned had a karambit, dlore and his inventory was huge, this is what the enemy team would use as excuse btw: "who would cheat having that inv.?" it was funny af

2023-09-21 03:34

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lol, shit like that makes me wonder how much $$$ is locked away in banned people investigators, Valve should auction away banned peoples inventories

2023-09-21 03:37

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And then people will accuse valve to ban people to sell their inventory

2023-09-21 03:50

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people will accuse Valve of anything anyway

2023-09-21 08:20

All items will decrease in value then

2023-09-21 08:41

Probably millions. There was a YouTuber (don’t remember who now he did die kinda recently it that helps) who did dives into vacced accounts with huge inventories Edit: mcskillet is the YouTuber after a 2 second google

2023-09-21 08:45

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mcskillet aware

2023-09-21 09:11

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worst part is; I enjoyed his content a lot. Definitely left a sour taste in hindsight

2023-09-21 13:00

"recently"

2023-09-21 12:58

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I literally have no concept of time

2023-09-21 19:27

There are a lot of accounts banned with big moneys, I think the biggest one had 6 numbers, but probably there's even more if you count accounts banned in 2014-2017 that had "cheap" skins and stickers that turned thousands of moneys

2023-09-21 09:09

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6 numbers? holy sheeeeet. How dense do you need to be to cheat on that account, dang!

2023-09-21 09:12

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There was an account banned with 5M but afaik they lifted the ban but no idea why or how. dexerto.com/csgo/5-million-dollar-csgo-a..

2023-09-21 09:29

Just because you are banned, doesn't mean its still not your items

2023-09-21 09:12

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Would offer people more of an incentive to not get banned. It's also never 'your' items, it is just stuff valve rent out to you, they can take it away whenever (else whenever the Steam platform dies, millions of people could sue them)

2023-09-21 09:20

little something to add: prnt.sc/wMJdrk_6xwlY they do indeed have a vac-ban now

2023-09-21 03:59

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german account, why i am not surprised lul

2023-09-21 09:30

There was a pro player getting banned live while the game was broadcasted. youtube.com/watch?v=Ir6ByYBW6e8

2023-09-21 04:03

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yeah i know that one, but this is the first time i saw it in MY games :) imagine being that dudes teammates tho, kinda like the word-exe dude although i think the whole team knew about that one

2023-09-21 12:53