Valve banhammer strikes record number of players after CS:GO goes free-to-play
It's making a list, it's checking it twice - Valve's figuring out who's naughty or nice. And it seems to be working, as the company cleared out over 600,000 misbehaving Steam players in December.
The spike in Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) bans was spotted by Nors3 on Twitter (via PCGamesN), and aligns with the figure of 609,375 seen on SteamDB. In contrast, the number of VAC bans handed out in November was significantly lower, resting at a moderate 103,744 bans.
As Nors3 highlights, the likely culprit is CS:GO, which coincidentally went free to play and got a battle royale mode in December. This brought an influx of new players, and probably encouraged more cheating by removing the financial risk of getting an account banned. Those pesky battle royale kids, eh?
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