Steam hands developers the power to ban cheaters

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Cheating in multiplayer games isn't big or clever, but people still think they can successfully get away with it. That's a problem for the folks at Valve, who are constantly trying to ensure that Steam is a nice place to play. It's one of the reasons that the company has now revealed that it'll hand the power to police users straight to the developers behind each game on the service. Now, rather than Valve staff racing to deal with each incident, the teams that made the title can rule on what they consider to be fair and unfair practices.

The process of banning, itself, will remain in the hands of Valve staffers, but now all a developer has to do is say the word and it'll be done. Of course, a cursory glance at the responses to the announcement on Twitter has revealed that plenty of gamers are worried that developers will abuse this power.
For those who play within the rules, there are some perks, as Valve has also revealed that it's widening the number of people who can join in the testing on Steam Guard for mobile. Another 1,000 people will be asked to authenticate their Steam devices using their smartphone, and the app sign up process has been updated as well.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/30/steam-hands-developers-the-power-to-ban-cheaters/

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TaigaAisakaPosted:

Sheeptacular
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Erza I don't really like this idea could ruin some games


Oh, so cheaters don't ruin the game?


He's obviously referencing how the devs can ban for stupid reasons, which in return would ruin a significant handful of games


While I know that's possible, I'm sure if Valve notice an increase of bans on a certain game, they would look into it to see if it was a false ban or not.

VatasyPosted:

I'm glad their actually doing this it will help tremendously in the gaming community.

OGPosted:

Thats good on their part. Cheaters push out the legit gamers out. This way they bring more players and players dont have to worry about cheaters

XboxPosted:

Glad to see these Cheaters getting banned.

21Posted:

As long as people aren't being banned too easily, and people aren't abusing this feature, then I see no issue with it. I actually think it's a good idea.

DeluxeHazardPosted:

Why do I feel like this type of power will be abused?

SheeptacularPosted:

ggfdsshjiutfgfdds
Erza I don't really like this idea could ruin some games


Oh, so cheaters don't ruin the game?


He's obviously referencing how the devs can ban for stupid reasons, which in return would ruin a significant handful of games

nostrilPosted:

Erza I don't really like this idea could ruin some games


Oh, so cheaters don't ruin the game?

FeetPosted:

I don't really like this idea could ruin some games

1989Posted:

Grimlock oh, thats pretty nice. Wonder if a developer bans someone for fun, wonder what they would do.


No game developer would do that. They are risking too much. It would just be stupid.