Off topic posts vanish from the forum (though can still be accessed through searches) if they're old enough and I don't think they are counted for that number when this happens.

Though that being said, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a huge amount of cheaters considering the low financial bar to entry for valve games.

Cheating is a huge business and it affects every online game.
Because people tie their own ego into gaming skills- the cheating turns into a massive blow to the collective self-image of gamers everywhere.

The trick is to not take it seriously if you play online at all- but not everyone has reached that step yet.

It's also good to remind that not all People on the vacforum don't understand the difference between errors and bans....among other things.

I didn't do it! Lift the ban!

fun games

Cs2 cheaters, biggest "played" game on steam

Hence why I haven't played it in half a year. Good riddance.

It's full of people complaining they didn't cheat when they did cheat, and trying to act innocent, saying stuff like "my brother played on my account and must have installed cheats"

But they’re all innocent. It was their family/cousins/friends/cats that did the cheating.

Never expect an MP game to be fair/free of cheats.

Cheat creation is a multimillion dollar business.

And people are generally awful and continue to buy cheat apps.

You won't last 10 seconds on VAC discussions!

I noticed theres like peepl who browse the VAC forum 24/7 to tell every single cheater their ban is not reversible and that they should contact steam support. Not staff but just random users. What the hell kinda hobby is that? xD

Maybe they get a kick and feel smart telling kids what to do

Who even cheats? People who put videos on the internet? What a waste of time that you could actually be getting good with.

Well if people only would READ how bans work there would be far less posts

Originally posted by Emeaux:

You won't last 10 seconds on VAC discussions!

I noticed theres like peepl who browse the VAC forum 24/7 to tell every single cheater their ban is not reversible and that they should contact steam support. Not staff but just random users. What the hell kinda hobby is that? xD

Maybe they get a kick and feel smart telling kids what to do

probably contributing more to society than anything posted in OT.

I just looked at it... never again XD

Originally posted by Emeaux:

You won't last 10 seconds on VAC discussions!

I noticed theres like peepl who browse the VAC forum 24/7 to tell every single cheater their ban is not reversible and that they should contact steam support. Not staff but just random users. What the hell kinda hobby is that? xD

Maybe they get a kick and feel smart telling kids what to do

It's a weird mix of boredom, ego, and schadenfreude. Some people just really like being the annoying voice of authority without actually having any authority. See also the Suggestions / Ideas forum.

“I didn’t cheat. My brother was using my computer.”