Originally posted by Arthrazes:

I don't play CS or other games that have VAC Ban. I see here that there are A LOT of people saying they were banned while being "innocent."

For those who play these games, does it really happen that innocent people receive a VAC Ban? Or are all these people trying to deceive others to get the ban removed (I know the ban is permanent).

I'm even afraid to start playing and receive one of these bans for no reason.

bans are not given for no reason. the people who are trying to appeal their bans, are people who were caught breaking the rules, aka they will tell all kinds of lie's to make them look innocents but by the end of the day its all the same excuses been used, also when someone else uses their accounts and cheat, it is still their responsibility, as the account was caught breaking the rules.

vacban - https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/647C-5CC1-7EA9-3C29
gameban cs2 - https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4E54-0B96-D0A4-1557
gameban by developer - https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/46DB-4CEC-F7E9-49E5

Originally posted by Arthrazes:

I don't play CS or other games that have VAC Ban. I see here that there are A LOT of people saying they were banned while being "innocent."

For those who play these games, does it really happen that innocent people receive a VAC Ban? Or are all these people trying to deceive others to get the ban removed (I know the ban is permanent).

I'm even afraid to start playing and receive one of these bans for no reason.

"innocent" that is pretty much a jokes on Vac forums. Lets see there are all kinds stories been used, and quite a few times it comes out that the user was using some kind of cheating software or skinchangers or being toxic in game. Or they borrowed their profile to some one and in turn that person did something against the rules, then there are users who bought account with a ban on it and they are trying to appeal the ban, which is permanent and of course buying accounts are against steam TOS

But just by looking at your profile, quite a few of your games uses some kind of anti cheat system like EAC

Originally posted by Arthrazes:

For those who play these games, does it really happen that innocent people receive a VAC Ban? Or are all these people trying to deceive others to get the ban removed (I know the ban is permanent).

The overwhelming majority of posts here from people claiming to be innocent are lying. Each and every VAC ban gets reviewed automatically so when someone does get a VAC ban by mistake the system will remove it within a couple weeks. The longest I've seen an account getting banned and then having the ban removed was about 30 days, and that happened right around one the time that one graphics card manufacturer had that software that triggered VAC for just about everyone using that card.