Has anyone ever appealed a VAC ban?

Summary

This article discusses various aspects of VAC bans, including their permanence, the possibility of multiple bans, hiding bans on the user’s profile, and the impact of bans on trading and accessing certain features in games.

Main Thought

VAC bans are permanent and remain on a user’s profile indefinitely. There is no limit to the number of VAC bans a user can receive, but having multiple bans may result in the termination of their Steam account.

Main Thought

While VAC bans cannot be hidden from a user’s profile, they do become hidden to other users after seven years of not receiving another ban.

Key Points

1. Main Thought

Players with VAC bans can still open cases and participate in non-VAC enabled aspects of a game, but they cannot connect to VAC-enabled servers or trade items from their inventory.

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VAC bans remain on a user’s profile for seven years, after which they no longer appear to other users but remain permanent.

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VAC bans do not ban a user’s IP address. If a VAC ban occurs while playing on a public computer, it is likely due to someone else using the account or cheats being installed on that computer.

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Accounts with VAC bans are unable to sell items or receive item drops in the game they were banned from.

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The oldest VAC ban account dates back to around 2005, making it nearly 15 years old.

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VAC bans do not result in IP bans. IP bans are highly unlikely and not a known practice by VAC.

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While VAC bans prevent users from playing on VAC-protected servers, game bans may still allow them to play casual games, albeit without the ability to play with other players.

Questions and Answers

1. Question: Has anyone ever appealed a VAC ban?

2. Question: How many VAC bans can you get?

3. Question: Can VAC banned accounts sell items?

Answer: If a VAC ban, cooldown, or overwatch ban is registered on an account, the user will no longer have access to the CS:GO store or be able to trade CS:GO items, and they will not receive item drops.

4. Question: Do VAC bans go away after 7 years?

Answer: VAC bans are permanent but stop appearing on a user’s profile to others after 7 years.

5. Question: Is a VAC ban an IP ban?

Answer: VAC is not known to ban by IP address. IP bans are highly unlikely.

6. Question: Is VAC ban worse than game ban?

Answer: With a game ban, players can still play casual games, whereas a VAC ban limits gameplay to bots only.

7. Question: Is a VAC ban a trade ban?

Answer: A VAC ban restricts tradeability of CSGO items in the inventory, but it does not impose overall account or trading limitations.

8. Question: Can you gift games to VAC ban?

9. Question: What is the longest Steam VAC ban?

10. Question: Do VAC bans affect other games?

11. Question: How bad is a VAC ban?

12. Question: How do I not wait 7 days for Steam guard?

13. Question: What is the 7-day trade wait on Steam?

Has a VAC ban ever been lifted

I'm sure your all well aware that once a VAC ban is in place it stays there. Irregardless of a reason.

How many VAC bans can you get

Technically there is no limit on how much VAC bans you can have on your Steam Account however if you one of those People who likes to collect "VAC bans", they may terminate your Community Profile/Steam Account.

How can I hide my VAC ban

The user's Steam profile is also marked with "ban(s) on record", which is publicly visible and cannot be hidden, regardless of the profile visibility of the banned account. VAC bans become hidden to other users after seven years of not getting another VAC ban.

Can you open cases with VAC ban

It doesn't stop you from opening stuff, you just can't connect to vac enabled servers, and inventory can't trade.

Do VAC bans go away after 7 years

The VAC ban is permanent, it will just stop showing on your profile to others at 7 years.

Does a VAC ban ban your IP

VAC does not ban anyone by IP address. If you're playing on public computers then either you left your account logged in and someone else used it, or the PC you were using had cheats installed that got the account banned.

Can VAC banned accounts sell items

If a VAC Ban, cooldown or overwatch ban has been registered on your account, you will no longer have access to the CS:GO store, or be able to make trades for CS:GO items, and you will no longer receive item drops.

What is the oldest VAC ban account

What is the oldest VAC ban account Permanent bans were first used in 2005. the oldest ban would be about 14, nearly 15 years old now… that's a LOT of days.

Is a VAC ban an IP ban

VAC is not known to IP ban. It is highly unlikely that they do IP ban.

Is VAC ban worse than game ban

The difference is that with a game ban you can still play casual games, but with a VAC ban you can only play with bots.

Is a VAC ban a trade ban

Nope, If your account is marked with a VAC ban any items in your inventory under the category CSGO are non-tradeable. VAC itself has nothing to do with account/trading limitations, and bypassing VAC after you have got a ban in the specific game will not let you trade away any items. How can we get free Valorant skins

Can you gift games to VAC ban

Both VAC and Game Ban enabled games can either be bought for your own account, or gifted immediately. If you directly gift a game to someone who gets permanently banned, you won't be able to gift that game again.

What is the longest Steam VAC ban

It's Sori with 4,477 days.

Do VAC bans affect other games

Any game where VAC is securing the game, you won't be able to play. Any game that is single player or played on a LAN is okay, but it must not be secured by VAC. Here's an article about it.

How bad is a VAC ban

If you get a VAC ban, you're no longer able to play on VAC-protected servers (any official servers) in any VAC-enabled game on your account. This means no official TF2 servers, no official CSGO servers, etc. You can still play on custom servers, provided they're not VAC-protected.

How do I not wait 7 days for Steam guard

You need to wait the 7 days before you can use the market. Steam Support cannot remove any restrictions from an account. No, it isn't possible.

What is the 7 day trade wait on Steam

When you cancel a trade that is being held by Steam, we'll presume that you intercepted a hijacker and you'll see a 7 day trading cooldown to prevent any further unauthorized attempts to trade away items. This cooldown is for your protection and cannot be removed by Steam Support.

Does Steam VAC ban IP

VAC is not known to IP ban. It is highly unlikely that they do IP ban.

How accurate are VAC bans

the fact you're VAC banned means it's safe to assume you cheated. Steam support will never release that kind of info. Originally posted by 约旦: VAC is accurate 99.9999% of the time, there has only been 2 REAL false positives, one on mw2 and one on csgo, everyone affected was unbanned.

What is worse a VAC ban or game ban

VAC bans are permanent and cannot be removed from an account. If a VAC ban has been issued incorrectly it will automatically be rolled back by the VAC team. You can learn more about Valve Anti-Cheat here. Game Bans are used by game developers to address malicious behavior that falls outside of VAC detection.

Is it possible to bypass Steam Guard

Then over money transferred out to the hackers. Account without you getting any warnings or notifications from Steam guard. I hope by doing this that you will all be safer.

Can you speed up Steam guard

No. You have to wait the full time period. Have you bought anything on your brand new account yet If that's the case, you will be able to trade in 29 days.

Can you bypass Steam 7 day trade hold

When you cancel a trade that is being held by Steam, we'll presume that you intercepted a hijacker and you'll see a 7 day trading cooldown to prevent any further unauthorized attempts to trade away items. This cooldown is for your protection and cannot be removed by Steam Support.

Are Steam trade bans permanent

While most trade bans are permanent, in some circumstances a user may receive a temporary trade ban. In these cases, when the ban is automatically lifted the offending account also gets placed into trade probation.

Do VAC bans show on Steam profile

A: When a user is banned via either one of our anti-cheat services, the following happens: The account cannot join secure servers for the AppIDs they are banned. The ban is publicly displayed on their Steam Community profile. The account can no longer share VAC enabled games.