Valve apologizes for banning over 12,000 legit Modern Warfare 2 players (PC)

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The anti-cheating software embedded in Valve's Steamworks platform recently took on a mind of its own, banning over 12,000 non-cheating Modern Warfare 2 players over the past two weeks. The cause for its insatiable ban lust? Valve president Gabe Newell explained in an email to those affected, "the problem was that Steam would fail a signature check between the disk version of a DLL and a latent memory version." See, we were just thinking that that had something to do with it.

Newell begged pardon for the erroneous bans, adding "this was our mistake, and I apologize for any frustration or angst it may have caused you." An apology and a swift reversal of the ban aren't all that these users will receive -- Newell promised a giftable copy of Left 4 Dead 2 to all those affected, as well as one copy for themselves, provided they don't already have it.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/27/valve-apologizes-for-banning-over-12-000-legit-modern-warfare-2/#comments

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-Avery-Posted:

What a bunch of dumbasses now they have to unban the cheaters lol

pvtpunchuPosted:

This is ridiculous, such an epic fail, They just ban people for Playing their own way, Let the Players Play how they want!

BurlzPosted:

I got banned last week for no reason lol. this must be why then :) oh well free L4D2

SlimDunkinnPosted:

lawl, wat a fail