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Does Steam ban your account?

Community Bans are issued to an account when the account is used in ways that violate Steam's Community Guidelines excessively. Most Community Bans will expire, but extended or even permanent bans may be issued if the prohibited activity continues or if the moderation team finds the activity egregious.
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How do I get my Steam account unbanned?

Is It Possible to Be Unbanned From Steam? No. Unfortunately, if you have a VAC ban, it won't be possible to appeal the decision. However, if you feel that your account has been wrongly banned, then it is possible to contact the Steam support team to open an investigation.
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What happens to your Steam account when you get banned?

When a user is VAC or Game Banned, their Steam account is banned from playing multiplayer on secured servers. This creates an incentive for people who cheat to stockpile copies of games on one account and to gift them to low value accounts where they can continue cheating.
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How do I know if my Steam account is banned?

VacList allows you to view and track Steam accounts and their ban status. You can search for accounts by either their SteamID, community URL, or vanity name. Logging in through Steam allows you to track accounts and view their ban status over time.
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How long do Steam bans last?

Your ban can last anywhere from 30 minutes to a week, and it is non-negotiable. VAC suspensions cannot be challenged. When a VAC ban is incorrectly issued, it is automatically corrected. Steam Support cannot remove vac bans because they are permanent, non-negotiable, and cannot be reversed.
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My Steam Account was Hacked/ Now Steam has Banned my Account

Are Steam game bans permanent?

Regardless of who was using the account at the time the ban was issued, game bans are permanent and are not removed.
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What is the oldest Steam ban?

Permanent bans were first used in 2005.
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Can you make a new Steam account after being banned?

No, a VAC ban is forever and always.
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Why is my Steam account blocked?

If your account has been locked, please login to your Steam account and click on the red Steam alert banner for more information and for the length of the restriction. The block may be related but is not limited to: The use of graphic or otherwise inappropriate avatars, screenshots, artwork etc. Spamming the community.
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Will Steam ban my account for pirated games?

Pirating games can lead to your account being permanently suspended. That's far worse than a VAC ban. So. Did you think it was a good idea to post on the Steam Forums that you're pirating games?
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What is the most expensive banned Steam account?

One of the richest CSGO accounts in the world, with nearly $5 million worth of skins, has been banned from Steam. 'Seacat' received a game ban on September 15, limiting their access to the platform and potentially locking away their skins forever.
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Will I ever get my Steam account back?

You can use the Help site to try to self-recover your account or contact Steam Support if you are unable to. If you are unable to complete the self recovery process, Steam Support will verify the account is yours and recover it for you.
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How many Steam accounts have been banned?

Valve bans more than 40,000 Steam accounts - Polygon.
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Is it fine to have 2 Steam accounts?

Steam doesn't care, they even encourage having seperate accounts if you want to run dedicated game server, it's AGS's ToS that forbids having more than one account per person.
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Am I allowed to have 2 Steam accounts?

Can I use multiple Steam accounts on one computer? Yes, you can access different Steam accounts from one computer. However, you may only access one account at a time.
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Is Steam illegal in China?

It's not entirely banned as the website is, but connections are slow and unstable, with Steam frequently being unable to connect. Fortunately for Chinese gamers, there's currently a convenient solution: games speed boosters.
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What games are banned in China?

Games that depict drugs, sexuality, blood, organized crime or defamation of the Chinese government are almost always banned. Because of the large size of the Chinese video game market, many studios edit the content of their games to conform to the government's standards.
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How many games are on China Steam?

Steam China has only 53 games and DLC

Steam China only sells games that have received a government license certifying that they abide by a long and complicated list of restrictions. That one rule cuts Steam China's available catalogue of games and DLC down from 21,131 to just 53.
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Will Steam ban you for cheating?

VAC stands for Valve Anti-Cheat, an automated system designed to detect cheats installed on users' computers. If a user connects to a VAC-Secured server from a computer with identifiable cheats installed, the VAC system will ban the user from playing that game on VAC-Secured servers in the future.
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Can Steam ban you for too many refunds?

yes you can be banned from steam for exploiting their refund system.
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How to bypass VAC ban?

Method 1:
  1. Close Steam client if open.
  2. Disconnect from the internet.
  3. Run Steam as Administrator.
  4. Inject VAC-Bypass. dll into Steam.exe process.
  5. After successful injection messagebox saying Initialization was successful! ...
  6. Reconnect to the internet.
  7. Press Retry in steam window saying 'Could not connect to Steam servers'.
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Is Steam account selling legal?

Steam accounts cannot be bought or sold. An account is for the personal use of its creator only. What are the consequences of selling an account? When Steam's support team notices an account has been sold, the account will be permanently locked whether or not it is currently in the possession of the buyer or seller.
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What happens if you abuse the refund system on Steam?

Abuse. Refunds are designed to remove the risk from purchasing titles on Steam—not as a way to get free games. If it appears to us that you are abusing refunds, we may stop offering them to you.
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How often do Steam accounts get hacked?

Valve has revealed that a staggering 77,000 Steam accounts are hacked each month, with the problem multiplying dramatically since the introduction of Steam Trading - the ability to trade away gift copies of games, in-game items and Steam Trading Cards.
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Is there a 5 dollar Steam limit?

In order to make it more difficult for these malicious users to spam, scam, and phish other users, we restrict access to certain community features until an account has spent at least $5.00 USD in Steam.
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