Last week, especially on Wednesday, July 18 and Thursday, July 19, 2018, Valve banned a massive amount of players. Valve’s Anti-Cheat system went full throttle and banned 28,511 and 61,424 accounts respectively, smashing last year’s record of 40,000 bans after the Summer Sale.
As the system monitors many different games, from the Valve-owned Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, DOTA 2 and Team Fortress 2 to the Call of Duty franchise and Ark: Survival Evolved, it’s possible that it found an unknown cheat and directly banned every account it found using it, although we don’t know the exact reason for the bans right now.
Some accounts were hit hard by the ban, losing several thousand dollars worth in games and inventory items. Someone whose account is banned can make a new account, but they have to buy everything again and permanently lose access to everything they had before, thanks to Valve’s lifetime ban policy.
You can follow the progress of the banning spree on SteamDB if you’re interested in seeing how it progresses.
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