cheats allready

[Raggz]

The use the same way as MS uses to ban hacked xboxes. They gather data ,flag the users and then ban them in waves. And Steams policy is the same. You will never get the account re-opened no matter how high you cry or whatever threats you can come up with. Not as long as you did cheat or use any mods in multi-player!
Better think twice before doing any of these things unless you don't care.

[Talon89]

Actually, we have no idea how effective the "anti-cheat" stuff is, because no one has been banned yet.

Hopefully, it's extremely effective... time will tell. The wiki says that this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...9a/Mathack.jpg hack is not detectable by it, which makes me wonder about the effectiveness.

Originally Posted by Raggz

The use the same way as MS uses to ban hacked xboxes. They gather data ,flag the users and then ban them in waves. And Steams policy is the same. You will never get the account re-opened no matter how high you cry or whatever threats you can come up with. Not as long as you did cheat or use any mods in multi-player!
Better think twice before doing any of these things unless you don't care.

But how probable is it to be banned by mistake? And what can one do?

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by Raggz

The use the same way as MS uses to ban hacked xboxes. They gather data ,flag the users and then ban them in waves. And Steams policy is the same. You will never get the account re-opened no matter how high you cry or whatever threats you can come up with. Not as long as you did cheat or use any mods in multi-player!
Better think twice before doing any of these things unless you don't care.

Whatever, I don`t care. I use ONLY vanilla games, I buy ONLY original games for xbox360. Cheaters need drastic measures to be applied to them because the whole community hurts.

And let`s be frank here : they don`t need to put up any kind of warning, since the EULA itself is the warning. You even TRY to fiddle with the game files, you`re toast and well done. Just the way I like it!