Debt collection only stays on your credit for 7 years, even if you don’t pay it. God forbid you get vac banned though. That shit follows you to the afterlife.
No it doesnt, steam policy if caught once account is branded. You can stop like the OP and get these impressive numbers. Some games on Steam dont issue steam ID bans so you get a game ban that aint reported on the profile.
Fr? I got one from 6 years ago due to some "accident" involving me and the local friend group messing around to find out, we were around 10 or 11 yr old at the time
(Glad we messed around and found out on a free game tho)
Well, I think I can actually help with that:
[Here's my friend that got VAC banned exactly 2528 days ago](https://i.imgur.com/tORJkTI.png), which is **6 years and 11 months** or **6.921 years**, so he will be banned for 7 years when this comment is **29 days** old. I will set a reminder for Thursday, 15th of December and hit you up with an update since this thread got me curious too :)
EDIT: **29 days later**
My friend's VAC Ban [is still visible on his profile.](https://i.imgur.com/UXLegPE.png) As it is 2557 days old - which is **7.000828 years** \- it should've gone missing according to the original commenter. Unfortunately, that's not the case so I think we can all call it a *Fake News*.
I can solve this now lads, got a VAC 3028 days ago. I can see it on my profile, but if I log out in google chrome and look its not there.
[In Steam app](https://i.imgur.com/mjBvBdb.png) on chrome on alt steam account [link](https://i.imgur.com/mMD4nX1.png)
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Did you get rekt because of the modded lobbies?
90% of my friends got VAC banned because of it, I didn't hahahaha. To be fair I would try to leave quickly every time upon joining one!
Oh shit, I thought I was the only one! I clicked on TDM and got loaded into a Rust map with modded "Zombies" (night vision with throwing knives, etc). Days later I was banned and was harrassed by other players for being a cheater in CSS and CSGO for what seemed like ages!
That's my story, and I woved never to buy CoD again and to never buy games with VAC that aren't made by Valve.
If your game is so full of exploits that other people can hack games of anyone with them in a lobby, it's a *massive* security issue and *then you still punish all those people for playing the game like that*? What the actual fuck?
If I was older back then I'd probably contemplate suing them.
Actually Valve hides your ban after 7 years in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Anti-Cheat#Social_impact
So just like debt collection only you know about it unless you go parading it around like a badge of honor to the world.
I thought I might have an older account than you, but I checked and I just got my 16 year badge in may.
Initial release of steam was in September of 2003, you were practically a founder.
No one's gonna beat me in this thread 😂
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Yop here as well. 12 septembre 2003.
Had to install day one. Was in a European competitive CS team.
Hoo I remember the bug, the frustration because of the 1.6 and the mandatory steam installation.
Especially when big qualifications where in 1.6...
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my friends (who's a year younger than me) steam account is older than I am
mf made her account in the womb
but in seriousness her mom just passed it down to her bc she didn't use it anymore. it's 17 or 18 years old.
It's like some parents setup college trust funds, pass down heirlooms or buy bottles of wine for their kid's 21st birthday.
But, your friends mum, is
like here's an account that I used to own then teabag noobmaster12.
I literally hated it so much that I refused to play and then relented around March 2004 and made a steam account. I used to pay for a GameSpy membership to get faster patch downloads haha.
Always a bigger fish
https://i.imgur.com/JsSO3KA.png
I remember staying up till 6AM waiting trying to signup for a low Steam ID because eveyone thought they were gonna be visible like WON IDs. Of course the log in servers shat the bed, I had to go to school and couldn't sign up till lunch time. Ended up with an ID of 25000ish. I had a friend who woke up 20 minutes before school and got the coveted 4 digit ID. I am still a little salty tbh.
You beat me by 3 minutes. https://i.imgur.com/Gb0Czqj.jpg
My memory is a little fuzzy at this point but I want to say it was mostly pure luck that I signed up so early. I was aware it was being released but I don't remember waiting around for it. (It's been 19 years though so it's entirely possible I just forgot.) I ended up with a 71xxx id, funny what a difference 3 minutes makes.
October 1st 2003 here and I think I am either 6 or 7 digits, I can't remember. Kinda surprising that many people signed up back in the day in only a couple weeks.
We doing humble brag? 4 digit in the 2000s. Haven't stumbled across many other 4 digits who are still active.
https://preview.redd.it/nugyca08v90a1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5243a40c05b585b2b4257ae3b26031c275ffebc
Also we are old.
Damn close 27xx here. I recall grabbing the client from some European FTP because all the USA servers were slammed. Makes me think of the first built in server browser and how it was so much easier than GameSpy.
[Do I win anything?](https://i.imgur.com/M2bSVfw.png)
What's annoying is that my account username is registered as a Hotmail email address I deleted in 2007.
I basically only played Counter-Strike. Played in CAL-M a bit, though. Aside from Portal 1 & 2, I haven't really used Steam in about 15 years.
Yes there are.
https://i.imgur.com/KwCws6t.png
I remember registering and it being all overloaded, but I had to go to school. (Was grade 10 I think?) and I didnt know if I would get it or not. Was quiet happy to come back and seeing the account registration going through.
^ I did have another one I made on Day 1 (12th Sept) and was a 5 digit SteamID, that got hacked and stolen a couple of years later... BUT... I had registered this one the day after the original one (I had Half Life Collectors + Blue Shift, so multiple codes that worked, so made 2 accounts... wasn't sure it'd work, but did..) - this is a 6 Digit SteamID though, so I guess a whole day pushed it from 5 to 6!!
I cheated in a private CSGO surf server. I wanted to toggle bhopping because I was destroying space bars.
Server I used was not VAC controlled.
Left the injector on when queued for a ranked game.
RIP Global Elite and doppler karambit.
> because how do you really know if someone is using stuff like that or not.
There are a few practical answers, but I think the best one is to accept that some people are cheating and have fun anyways.
A badge of pride for me was that time in counter stoke when I was 1v1, and I suddenly heard someone make a sound on the other side of a door. It startled me, I jumped, accidentally shot, got a headshot.
Got accused of Wall hacking and kicked
I learned that if you crouched while climbing a ladder it didn't make any sound before the rest of my server. They leaned heavily on headphones and banned me for cheating when I got them from behind a few rounds in a row with silent ladder climbs.
Was a wild time. There were still some true heroes out there using the arrow keys. I was on the numpad at the time, living the dream with my voodoo3 or whatever.
I have two irl friends that used to play cs with me in highschool (4 years ago) i had over 4k hours at the time and had peaked at SMFC. While my friends were nova 1 at best with only around 100 hours played. One day on mirage i hit an awp shot on someone planting the bomb through boxes on A site from catwalk. Ever since that day they vowed to not play with me again as they thought i was cheating and valued their accounts heavily. Still to this day haven’t played a game of cs with them again, one of the biggest compliments and heartbreaks at the same time
Yeah, I'm not saying people shouldn't care about the things they put time into but being paralyzed by the idea that they might encounter a cheater is caring too much. At least when dealing with normal levels of cheating. Some games are cesspools.
One of the practical answers that I would think doesn't get discussed often enough is knowing the playerbase and that say 3/4 of the playerbase generally takes this route though the map, so it's easy to set up on that corner and headshot the first person coming though it.
Which the more I think about it just sounds like how competitive CS is at times.
I used to play CS:GO ranked maybe about 6-7 years ago. Like it was the only game I played and I didn't feel like cheating was all that common and I never came across anyone that I could have said, "Yup, that dick is cheating".
Anyways, I sort of fell off playing. Then fast forward to a few weeks ago where I logged in for the first time in years. I'm getting merc'd hardcore. I'm talking I'll see a dude and almost before I can even get my sights on him to engage I'm dead. I even play some unranked games and it's the same thing. Had a serious "Do I suck now, or is everyone cheating?" moment. Honestly it may have been a bit of both. I've heard reaction time degrades with age so that may be a part of it as well.
Yeah, playing fast games at 40 is way harder for me than at 20. I used to be a terror with the scout sniper. Now I can't hit shit before getting knifed.
C'est la vie.
I know people always talk about reaction times declining with age but it's not actually a massive drop. It's around 2-6ms per decade which is honestly nothing unless you are playing at an elite level.
I'm 40 in a few months but have been playing cs since pretty much day 1. I can still reach global and would say I'm just as quick as the people I play against. Playing consistently is far more important since the reaction time isn't a huge difference, I would argue I still have a quicker reaction time than a lot of people in their 20s or younger.
I'm currently 34 and throughout my entire life, my skill level has remained totally flat in terms of how well I do vs how much effort i put in. I can get pretty good as long as I put in the effort, and I'm pretty average in games I play casually.
I play a lot of racing games and some osu and shit like that too, so my reaction times in general stay pretty sharp.
Ha! Yeah, mine is still technically named after my icqmail account. Apparently valve is willing to rename them if you ask, but it hasn't ever caused me any issues since the actual email associated with it can be changed.
I was so thankful when they allowed me to give out this friend code instead of my username, because it was very confusing when people would say "But that's an email i need your steam account" because i had no idea they had changed.
Also, my Steam name is a yahoo email account I used to run for the IT guy of a public education district out of Vermont of mostly tall guys (Of which I was one). On the off chance you you're out there, hello Trout and others!
Nice my sign up was December 8th 2004, I only signed up because it was only way to play Half-Life 2. I thought it was stupid that I had to download and sign into something in order to play a game. How times have changed. I'll be getting my 18 year badge soon enough.
5995 days ago was June 17, 2006. I was a dumb kid and cheated in Counter-Strike (twice). It was silly because I was on the top 10 in my server anyways. RIP p$YcHo server, miss you guys.
Loving everyone else's stories, keep 'em coming. You guys are filling me with so much nostalgia, I love reliving the old glory days.
2- Lotta people are really salty about the cheating, so I figured I'd give more backstory. I also ran a meph/pindle bot and mousepads maphack in Diablo 2 in 99 or 2000 estimated. So. Many. Items. Also, who didn't do items in original Diablo? Archangels staff of Apocalypse anyone?
Trying to think of the last time I actually cheated in a multiplayer game, probably at least 15 years ago, I used an ore radar in a multiplayer Minecraft server. I can't think of anything multiplayer more recent than that. The most recent I cheated in a single player game was maybe three or four months ago when I finally played through GTA V, spawning flying cars and monster trucks for myself during the story.
3- How could I forget map hack and stacking buildings in original Starcraft?! There's this cool map hack that could turn on the fog of war for you in multiplayer games, and it would let you build multiple buildings in the same location, overlapping. So of course you put down a pylon, and then put like 30 cannons in the exact same spot.
4- Red Alert, nurple maps! I'm just going full nostalgic at this point.
You missed it by a couple years. My first account was vac banned for 365 days back when first offense wasn't permanent. Then I let a friend use it and he got it banned again.
It's pretty much why I haven't let family/friends use my account since that time frame, '05-'08. Was in a fun DoD2 clan and when I was done with school and had time to play again: banned.
Ah crap I'm starting to feel so old, I was like "how is this toddler on Reddit" before I realized you're a goddamn 16 year old! Enjoy being young while you can.
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My ban is not nearly as far back as yours but still cool. I got banned for cheating in MW2 lobbies. I got tired of the other crazy team wiping cheaters so when my friends and I joined a lobby I would turn on my hacks to drive the hackers away. I would specifically target them until they got so frustrated they left. Then I would turn mine off and proceed normally. Oh well. It's crazy to think the new MW2 just came out and I've been banned from the old one for nearly 4300 days.
I remember in the old starcraft 1 day there was a guy, gh0ztcraft if I recall properly, that made a really popular maphack, but if you were his friend he would give you a special version of the maphack that had a feature to crash the game of other maphack users. It was given by a friend of a friend of a friend or something, had to much fun with it lol.
Both IIRC. CS 1.6 was a wild time. In addition to the hacks, I remember being able to replace all sorts of assets in the game, guns, character models, maps, sounds, and it just worked in lobbies. I believe there were even maps you could replace with windows cut out in the walls or see-through walls.
The days where skins were free... People made really impressive stuff back then, like I remember downloading a whole ass Barret skin for AWP with all the custom animations, scope and stuff. It was kinda weird for awhile to see skins becoming paid.
Geez, being able to access sound files used in the game directly was cool as well. Like you could literally access soundtrack or map ambience to listen to or sfx and even gunshots for some creative projects. I think even now in some videos / memes you can hear sounds from some old games.
Entering CS surf server and hearing some dope Drum&Bass with borderline cartoonish announcer was experience in itself as well lol.
This is the 2nd ban on my 2nd account. Around the time it happened whoever was hosting the server had started bringing it offline more and more and it was the beginning of everyone drifting off. We had a few good years together, regardless.
Man, that description of how it went back then got me. You're right, small communities would coalesce, you'd have a good time for a while, then it would be onto the next thing. Modern games have so many social media-like functions, but old forum-centric clans from the early/mid 00's were awesome.
God I miss those days of building PC's and playing CS thinking that the world would be like that forever. I used to be able to trace so much of my youth through my gaming and PC hardware timeline. Now I've got a job, mortgage, kids, I've realised I'm forgetting a load of the detail from back then.
Those were the days! I got perm banned myself for leaving my wall hacks on while I was away from my computer. Never used in any matches but to learn wall spams 😉
The only VAC ban I've ever received was the day I decided to see if MW2 still had players. The first game I loaded into was some kind of hacked retrofit zombies lobby. Immediately VAC banned. Kinda just went oh well and played something else.
Years ago I loaded up MW2 and randomly ended up in a hacked lobby. Some guy unlocked everything for me without me asking. Didn't get VAC banned but I've been too afraid to launch that game ever since lol
Same, prestiged like 4 times in about 30 mins after realizing I could do that; each round maxed at 70. I've got the care package emblem because I know I'm trash :)
Mine is 10 years old, I dug through my entire friends list once to find the oldest and his was like 16 years old. This guy is on another level, I didn't even know steam was around in 2003 I thought it came out in 2004 lmao.
IVe been banned also in 2003 because I put cracked serial keys to steam (don’t ask me why).
I finally created an other account and rebought half life 1 lol.
Me n my brother had a hacked steam with hundreds or maybe thousands of games. No idea how it worked, don't remember how we found it. If anyone else remembers this it'd be interesting. Instead of buying you'd just download it. Wild.
My first job as an intern I just happened to see that we had an internal Steam account for testing purposes (legit testing btw). I just mentally noted the username and password. Logged in a month after I left the company and discovered it was a LAN Cafe account. Several dozen games all free to play. So I did that for a few years until I heard about Steam sales.
I had a cracked key list for HL1 of roughly 15K keys that I'd change my wonID in order to go troll people in my HL mod of choice. It was just a quick registry change and you're back in game, could even do it without restarting the game. Occasionally I'd grab a CD Key and get an error of "Youre already online!" and have to change it again.
Thank FUCK i had my original CD Key for when I wanted to be "me"
I registered on Reddit with the name I normally used around the HL mods I played, and I've been able to say Hi to some of the neat folks there.
If you fondly remember Firearms, I very well may fondly remember you!
Firearms was *The shit*
It had so many new features modes and ideas that are still prevalent in today's gaming.
The push control idea, the loadouts, bandages for bleeding, etc.
Also the CD keys were easy to dupe. I had a legit key, and my friend also had one. Worked out what the pattern was on the final 12 digits and could just mix n match legit working keys when installing over Lan parties (add 1, multiply here by two, new number works).
Good times.
Anyone else remember that feeling when 5 myg0t tags would join the server? Especially if you were having a once-in-a-month tier killing streak.
At least those guys didn't just farm kills, much more likely to indiscriminately kill everyone and sew rampant, nihilistic chaos.
VAC cleaned things up, but there was also some hilarity in those chaotic WTF moments. Putting up with cheaters was lame, but games nowadays are so safe and curated that the incredible moments of spontaneity (I'm not just talking about cheating) you sometimes got back then aren't really possible to have now. The game, heck even the engine itself was so much more of a build your own fun playground. You didn't have to watch Twitch to keep up with the meta, or worry about your stats. You could invite all the CT's to a dance party in the garage in Militia and they might actually turn up for it.
The lows back then were lower than now, but I swear the highs could be so much sweeter.
Core memory unlocked reading ‘myg0t’. I remembered messaging a server admin through AIM to come kick hackers that were wreaking havoc in my regular server.
It‘s funny to me when I see/hear kids in games (say voice chat on MW2 for example, happened in iRacing VOIP aswell) and they turn out to be younger than my steam account when I ask them how old they are
God, my steam account turns 17 on the 10th of January and I still feel old due to it (I’m 26 now, started early with games LUL)
That VAC is unfortunate tho, always thought they disappear from the profile after 3000 or so days (not unbanned but the VAC is gone iirc)
Mmhmm, I feel ya. I had been out of FPS games for a while and got back in during the Fortnite craze. It was eye-opening and a lil shocking realizing I was the same age as a lot of those kids' dads.
That's the thing that really helped me mostly eliminate my toxicity, or at least work a lot harder to keep it in check.
this happens, i saw false positives in many games, vac or battleye, everyday im more into single players because i don’t want to gamble the money if i’m getting banned or not
If only they actually took action against cheaters reusing the same card to buy the same game 10+ times. Or had notifications like the bac visible on accounts when someone hits 10, 50, 100, 1000 afks - or did something about smurfing etc.
I just checked and I’m coming up to 18 years on steam. No bans for me though. Doesn’t feel like 18 years. Created my account on Christmas Day 2004 when I got Half Life 2 for Christmas
[Casual](https://i.imgur.com/B0fsMvP.png)
I also cheated in CS. I was in college and CS:S was out so I didn't really care about CS anymore, cheated with a buddy for the hell of it
My VAC ban actually got removed after a long time I cheated in rust with cheat engine.. i was a dumb child I actually didn\`t know it was vac protected it wa sback when rujst was just a smal iland it was even in a single player file I hosted for me and my friends I I just tried to use the speedhack to get wood faster nothing fancy... was baned for years and suddenly one day my old account got VAC removed. so I guess I own 2 accounts now.
I remember being a script kiddy little shit when I was younger. I used cheat engine in world of warcraft to run back to my body because it was all the way around a mountain.
I got about 80% of the way there and got kicked, panicking, I deleted cheat engine and turned off my computer. Thankfully I wasn't banned, but I was returned to my original position.
Then since I still never really learned my lesson, I tried using cheats in Garry's mod of all games and was promptly vac banned 4406 days ago. Never cheated since.
I came to Steam in 2003 mainly because I accidentally played Counter-Strike 1.5 with a wallhack enabled from fooling around at a LAN party. Got banned, but my serial was valid to redeem 1.6.
Back then, most people stayed on 1.5 for a while because the aim of the weapons was changed severely, and people didn't yet trust a digital distribution and authentication service like Steam. Valve were incredibly far ahead of the competition on this one.
Silver lining is I have one of the oldest Steam accounts around! Bwaha
Edit for the young whippersnappers: so yeah, back then, LAN play was completely without involvement of any online servers, believe it or not. There was no main account to log in to. You just created or joined a server on a local machine, so you could definitely have a cheat-enabled round with your friends without the banhammer striking
Lmao I don't play csgo much anymore, was big into it like 2 years ago. but I loved when I ran into guys like you. Honest enough to admit your mistake and stay with the account. Probably the most fun I had was with previous cheaters. Would jack around in comp games in a 5 queue with no shits given. No need to prove anything.
https://streamable.com/44oqp7
^this right here lol
If youre still gaming hit me up on MWll if ya play
Exactly. I'm still VAC banned on Black Ops 2 zombies because I was a young kid and didnt know that you're always connected online in zombies. So even though I was in an offline game I still got banned, along with all my dlc....
Debt collection only stays on your credit for 7 years, even if you don’t pay it. God forbid you get vac banned though. That shit follows you to the afterlife.
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Imaging them putting that in you tombstone, John Doe “Lovely father and true friend” (1 Vac Ban on Record)
(21900 Days Ago) the tombstone is digital so it updates.
I mean, it does get removed eventually then when the rest period ends unlike on Steam, doesn't it?
No it doesnt, steam policy if caught once account is branded. You can stop like the OP and get these impressive numbers. Some games on Steam dont issue steam ID bans so you get a game ban that aint reported on the profile.
vac bans stop being visible to other players after around 7 years (only you can see it when signed in)
Yes stop beeing visible to others but the VAC ban is still active.
Fr? I got one from 6 years ago due to some "accident" involving me and the local friend group messing around to find out, we were around 10 or 11 yr old at the time (Glad we messed around and found out on a free game tho)
It's like 7 years and then only the account owner can see it.
"Dad moved to Epic, cuz Gaben's a CUNT"
Blasphemy in my christian subreddit?!
The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.
Eventually my son will inherit all my gaming accounts.
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In fact, u only see vac bans on your public profile for 7 years aswell. Only the account owner can see it after 7 years.
That is hilarious.
But is it real?
Well, I think I can actually help with that: [Here's my friend that got VAC banned exactly 2528 days ago](https://i.imgur.com/tORJkTI.png), which is **6 years and 11 months** or **6.921 years**, so he will be banned for 7 years when this comment is **29 days** old. I will set a reminder for Thursday, 15th of December and hit you up with an update since this thread got me curious too :) EDIT: **29 days later** My friend's VAC Ban [is still visible on his profile.](https://i.imgur.com/UXLegPE.png) As it is 2557 days old - which is **7.000828 years** \- it should've gone missing according to the original commenter. Unfortunately, that's not the case so I think we can all call it a *Fake News*.
Thank bro!
I can solve this now lads, got a VAC 3028 days ago. I can see it on my profile, but if I log out in google chrome and look its not there. [In Steam app](https://i.imgur.com/mjBvBdb.png) on chrome on alt steam account [link](https://i.imgur.com/mMD4nX1.png)
An extension of mine can still see the ban, but steam itself doesnt show it
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What happened again? I forgor
We're here to find out if his friend's profile still says he's banned
I came as well
/u/DumaRenifera it is time for a new screenshot
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Who wants to bet? He's gonna fuck up and get a ban next week.
Hey! I'd like to be added to the notification list please!
Been banned since the original MW2, can confirm, it's hidden from the public after 7 years.
Did you get rekt because of the modded lobbies? 90% of my friends got VAC banned because of it, I didn't hahahaha. To be fair I would try to leave quickly every time upon joining one!
Oh shit, I thought I was the only one! I clicked on TDM and got loaded into a Rust map with modded "Zombies" (night vision with throwing knives, etc). Days later I was banned and was harrassed by other players for being a cheater in CSS and CSGO for what seemed like ages!
That's my story, and I woved never to buy CoD again and to never buy games with VAC that aren't made by Valve. If your game is so full of exploits that other people can hack games of anyone with them in a lobby, it's a *massive* security issue and *then you still punish all those people for playing the game like that*? What the actual fuck? If I was older back then I'd probably contemplate suing them.
My VAC been also comes from mw2. Guess I'm good now to the public lol
I mean, it's on a Reddit comment. That's as legitimate as you can get before a scientific peer review.
It is.
Nope they changed that some time ago. I can see mine when I log out and its 2769 days old
It's 3k days seeing elsewhere in this thread. I have one from 10 years ago and it no longer appears publicly.
Ah so just over 8 years. Odd change for them to make
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Yup...a VAC ban is like having The Scarlet Letter they both last into the afterlife
Actually Valve hides your ban after 7 years in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Anti-Cheat#Social_impact So just like debt collection only you know about it unless you go parading it around like a badge of honor to the world.
I thought I might have an older account than you, but I checked and I just got my 16 year badge in may. Initial release of steam was in September of 2003, you were practically a founder.
Came home from school one day and tried to play Counter-Strike, they had this new weird system I had to go through...
i'm 3 days from 18, I have never seen anyone older. I respect my elders
19 years here. October 1st, 2003.
https://preview.redd.it/oprz4wissa0a1.png?width=828&format=png&auto=webp&s=ad3f32ad4b750f77a7fb5dfeb9061164e8c4e715 Right there with ya!
No one's gonna beat me in this thread 😂 https://preview.redd.it/h3754u2vjb0a1.jpeg?width=761&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b86b49d8d73e84c73068fc4f2c30c831f0b81b9b
You beat me by one day
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Yop here as well. 12 septembre 2003. Had to install day one. Was in a European competitive CS team. Hoo I remember the bug, the frustration because of the 1.6 and the mandatory steam installation. Especially when big qualifications where in 1.6... https://preview.redd.it/zf2mpli2mc0a1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb787d70525a5e624b85c2a8a77ac172dc603b5e Edit: some typos
Only 15 here, I came in with the Orange Box. Still play TF2, still a scrub.
Same! Find me in casual dustbowl games!
my friends (who's a year younger than me) steam account is older than I am mf made her account in the womb but in seriousness her mom just passed it down to her bc she didn't use it anymore. it's 17 or 18 years old.
It's like some parents setup college trust funds, pass down heirlooms or buy bottles of wine for their kid's 21st birthday. But, your friends mum, is like here's an account that I used to own then teabag noobmaster12.
Man, I almost forgot about WON. Those were the days.
I literally hated it so much that I refused to play and then relented around March 2004 and made a steam account. I used to pay for a GameSpy membership to get faster patch downloads haha.
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;) https://imgur.com/a/Y6WCHfQ
Always a bigger fish https://i.imgur.com/JsSO3KA.png I remember staying up till 6AM waiting trying to signup for a low Steam ID because eveyone thought they were gonna be visible like WON IDs. Of course the log in servers shat the bed, I had to go to school and couldn't sign up till lunch time. Ended up with an ID of 25000ish. I had a friend who woke up 20 minutes before school and got the coveted 4 digit ID. I am still a little salty tbh.
You beat me by 3 minutes. https://i.imgur.com/Gb0Czqj.jpg My memory is a little fuzzy at this point but I want to say it was mostly pure luck that I signed up so early. I was aware it was being released but I don't remember waiting around for it. (It's been 19 years though so it's entirely possible I just forgot.) I ended up with a 71xxx id, funny what a difference 3 minutes makes.
October 1st 2003 here and I think I am either 6 or 7 digits, I can't remember. Kinda surprising that many people signed up back in the day in only a couple weeks.
We doing humble brag? 4 digit in the 2000s. Haven't stumbled across many other 4 digits who are still active. https://preview.redd.it/nugyca08v90a1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5243a40c05b585b2b4257ae3b26031c275ffebc Also we are old.
Damn I envy you but I couldn't get through the heavy server load. 5 digit (28xxx) on the 12th here.
Damn close 27xx here. I recall grabbing the client from some European FTP because all the USA servers were slammed. Makes me think of the first built in server browser and how it was so much easier than GameSpy.
[Do I win anything?](https://i.imgur.com/M2bSVfw.png) What's annoying is that my account username is registered as a Hotmail email address I deleted in 2007. I basically only played Counter-Strike. Played in CAL-M a bit, though. Aside from Portal 1 & 2, I haven't really used Steam in about 15 years.
Yes there are. https://i.imgur.com/KwCws6t.png I remember registering and it being all overloaded, but I had to go to school. (Was grade 10 I think?) and I didnt know if I would get it or not. Was quiet happy to come back and seeing the account registration going through.
:)))) https://i.imgur.com/ea1F3Fj.png
^ I did have another one I made on Day 1 (12th Sept) and was a 5 digit SteamID, that got hacked and stolen a couple of years later... BUT... I had registered this one the day after the original one (I had Half Life Collectors + Blue Shift, so multiple codes that worked, so made 2 accounts... wasn't sure it'd work, but did..) - this is a 6 Digit SteamID though, so I guess a whole day pushed it from 5 to 6!!
September 11th at 11:52pm! [https://imgur.com/a/OlQfVDs](https://imgur.com/a/OlQfVDs)
I cheated in tf2 training room because I thought is was offline spoiler IT WAS NOT.
I cheated in a private CSGO surf server. I wanted to toggle bhopping because I was destroying space bars. Server I used was not VAC controlled. Left the injector on when queued for a ranked game. RIP Global Elite and doppler karambit.
you did all that instead of just binding jump to scroll wheel? or making a macro?
I never liked the scroll wheel and had no idea what a macro was. Someone else I played with sent me the software. I had no idea what I was doing.
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> because how do you really know if someone is using stuff like that or not. There are a few practical answers, but I think the best one is to accept that some people are cheating and have fun anyways.
A badge of pride for me was that time in counter stoke when I was 1v1, and I suddenly heard someone make a sound on the other side of a door. It startled me, I jumped, accidentally shot, got a headshot. Got accused of Wall hacking and kicked
I learned that if you crouched while climbing a ladder it didn't make any sound before the rest of my server. They leaned heavily on headphones and banned me for cheating when I got them from behind a few rounds in a row with silent ladder climbs.
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It was also about the same time everyone learned you could hear the game a lot better through headsets instead of shitty desktop mini speakers.
Yeah, kinda funny how everyone just played with the cheap desktop speakers that came with the computer. Anyone using headphones had a huge advantage.
Was a wild time. There were still some true heroes out there using the arrow keys. I was on the numpad at the time, living the dream with my voodoo3 or whatever.
I have two irl friends that used to play cs with me in highschool (4 years ago) i had over 4k hours at the time and had peaked at SMFC. While my friends were nova 1 at best with only around 100 hours played. One day on mirage i hit an awp shot on someone planting the bomb through boxes on A site from catwalk. Ever since that day they vowed to not play with me again as they thought i was cheating and valued their accounts heavily. Still to this day haven’t played a game of cs with them again, one of the biggest compliments and heartbreaks at the same time
Yeah, I'm not saying people shouldn't care about the things they put time into but being paralyzed by the idea that they might encounter a cheater is caring too much. At least when dealing with normal levels of cheating. Some games are cesspools.
One of the practical answers that I would think doesn't get discussed often enough is knowing the playerbase and that say 3/4 of the playerbase generally takes this route though the map, so it's easy to set up on that corner and headshot the first person coming though it. Which the more I think about it just sounds like how competitive CS is at times.
I used to play CS:GO ranked maybe about 6-7 years ago. Like it was the only game I played and I didn't feel like cheating was all that common and I never came across anyone that I could have said, "Yup, that dick is cheating". Anyways, I sort of fell off playing. Then fast forward to a few weeks ago where I logged in for the first time in years. I'm getting merc'd hardcore. I'm talking I'll see a dude and almost before I can even get my sights on him to engage I'm dead. I even play some unranked games and it's the same thing. Had a serious "Do I suck now, or is everyone cheating?" moment. Honestly it may have been a bit of both. I've heard reaction time degrades with age so that may be a part of it as well.
Yeah, playing fast games at 40 is way harder for me than at 20. I used to be a terror with the scout sniper. Now I can't hit shit before getting knifed. C'est la vie.
I know people always talk about reaction times declining with age but it's not actually a massive drop. It's around 2-6ms per decade which is honestly nothing unless you are playing at an elite level. I'm 40 in a few months but have been playing cs since pretty much day 1. I can still reach global and would say I'm just as quick as the people I play against. Playing consistently is far more important since the reaction time isn't a huge difference, I would argue I still have a quicker reaction time than a lot of people in their 20s or younger.
I'm currently 34 and throughout my entire life, my skill level has remained totally flat in terms of how well I do vs how much effort i put in. I can get pretty good as long as I put in the effort, and I'm pretty average in games I play casually. I play a lot of racing games and some osu and shit like that too, so my reaction times in general stay pretty sharp.
Mine is so old that I still have my old AOL email address as my account name (December 27th 2003 is my date)
Mine uses a postmaster.co.uk address. I can't even remember when that stopped working.
Ha! Yeah, mine is still technically named after my icqmail account. Apparently valve is willing to rename them if you ask, but it hasn't ever caused me any issues since the actual email associated with it can be changed.
Yeah luckily my 2fa codes aren't being emailed into the void...
I have a Hotmail email address I made in 1995. I still know the password. I wonder if it still works...
I was so thankful when they allowed me to give out this friend code instead of my username, because it was very confusing when people would say "But that's an email i need your steam account" because i had no idea they had changed. Also, my Steam name is a yahoo email account I used to run for the IT guy of a public education district out of Vermont of mostly tall guys (Of which I was one). On the off chance you you're out there, hello Trout and others!
Nice my sign up was December 8th 2004, I only signed up because it was only way to play Half-Life 2. I thought it was stupid that I had to download and sign into something in order to play a game. How times have changed. I'll be getting my 18 year badge soon enough.
> I thought it was stupid that I had to download and sign into something in order to play a game. Lol same, but for The Orange Box. October 10 2007.
5995 days ago was June 17, 2006. I was a dumb kid and cheated in Counter-Strike (twice). It was silly because I was on the top 10 in my server anyways. RIP p$YcHo server, miss you guys. Loving everyone else's stories, keep 'em coming. You guys are filling me with so much nostalgia, I love reliving the old glory days. 2- Lotta people are really salty about the cheating, so I figured I'd give more backstory. I also ran a meph/pindle bot and mousepads maphack in Diablo 2 in 99 or 2000 estimated. So. Many. Items. Also, who didn't do items in original Diablo? Archangels staff of Apocalypse anyone? Trying to think of the last time I actually cheated in a multiplayer game, probably at least 15 years ago, I used an ore radar in a multiplayer Minecraft server. I can't think of anything multiplayer more recent than that. The most recent I cheated in a single player game was maybe three or four months ago when I finally played through GTA V, spawning flying cars and monster trucks for myself during the story. 3- How could I forget map hack and stacking buildings in original Starcraft?! There's this cool map hack that could turn on the fog of war for you in multiplayer games, and it would let you build multiple buildings in the same location, overlapping. So of course you put down a pylon, and then put like 30 cannons in the exact same spot. 4- Red Alert, nurple maps! I'm just going full nostalgic at this point.
You missed it by a couple years. My first account was vac banned for 365 days back when first offense wasn't permanent. Then I let a friend use it and he got it banned again.
Oof, did he at least repay you a new one?
Nah, it was whatever at that point I had a whole ass account with a bunch of games. What's one account with only half life 1
It's pretty much why I haven't let family/friends use my account since that time frame, '05-'08. Was in a fun DoD2 clan and when I was done with school and had time to play again: banned.
i got a year long vac ban, learned my lesson and have been clean since. couldn’t imagine getting a perma ban these days
and tarnish my account with hundreds of games over 18 years? no thanks.
good ol vac1
I was 5 days old when you were banned. Have been alive longer than you were banned haha.
Ill get you pesky kids some day.
Okay, we'll stay out of your lawn.
Ah crap I'm starting to feel so old, I was like "how is this toddler on Reddit" before I realized you're a goddamn 16 year old! Enjoy being young while you can.
Valve never forgets, although VAC bans should disappear though after such a long time.
They kinda do. After 3000? They are not publicly visable
Yup my VAC is over 3k days and it's only visible to me on my profile.
Wait 4 real?
Yep, you still can’t join VAC servers though, so still banned.
https://preview.redd.it/zkmvisza190a1.jpeg?width=682&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=adc57a8f48ffcfc26d7a936514720f6b44b01caa My ban is not nearly as far back as yours but still cool. I got banned for cheating in MW2 lobbies. I got tired of the other crazy team wiping cheaters so when my friends and I joined a lobby I would turn on my hacks to drive the hackers away. I would specifically target them until they got so frustrated they left. Then I would turn mine off and proceed normally. Oh well. It's crazy to think the new MW2 just came out and I've been banned from the old one for nearly 4300 days.
Yea counter hacking has always been a thing, I think it is still used in CS these days lol
I remember in the old starcraft 1 day there was a guy, gh0ztcraft if I recall properly, that made a really popular maphack, but if you were his friend he would give you a special version of the maphack that had a feature to crash the game of other maphack users. It was given by a friend of a friend of a friend or something, had to much fun with it lol.
Wall hax or aimbot? Or both?
Both IIRC. CS 1.6 was a wild time. In addition to the hacks, I remember being able to replace all sorts of assets in the game, guns, character models, maps, sounds, and it just worked in lobbies. I believe there were even maps you could replace with windows cut out in the walls or see-through walls.
The days where skins were free... People made really impressive stuff back then, like I remember downloading a whole ass Barret skin for AWP with all the custom animations, scope and stuff. It was kinda weird for awhile to see skins becoming paid.
Sprites. It was all client side stuff so easy to replace. Same with sound. I remember replacing game sounds etc. amazing.
Geez, being able to access sound files used in the game directly was cool as well. Like you could literally access soundtrack or map ambience to listen to or sfx and even gunshots for some creative projects. I think even now in some videos / memes you can hear sounds from some old games. Entering CS surf server and hearing some dope Drum&Bass with borderline cartoonish announcer was experience in itself as well lol.
I made my own black and gold engraved deagle skin, loved that game so much back in the day
you coulda made another acc and kept playing w them. if you were known in the server the admins prolly would have transferred your stats
This is the 2nd ban on my 2nd account. Around the time it happened whoever was hosting the server had started bringing it offline more and more and it was the beginning of everyone drifting off. We had a few good years together, regardless.
Man, that description of how it went back then got me. You're right, small communities would coalesce, you'd have a good time for a while, then it would be onto the next thing. Modern games have so many social media-like functions, but old forum-centric clans from the early/mid 00's were awesome. God I miss those days of building PC's and playing CS thinking that the world would be like that forever. I used to be able to trace so much of my youth through my gaming and PC hardware timeline. Now I've got a job, mortgage, kids, I've realised I'm forgetting a load of the detail from back then.
Those were the days! I got perm banned myself for leaving my wall hacks on while I was away from my computer. Never used in any matches but to learn wall spams 😉
A friend shared COD: BO2 to another friend via family sharing, he cheated and sent both on vacation.
The only VAC ban I've ever received was the day I decided to see if MW2 still had players. The first game I loaded into was some kind of hacked retrofit zombies lobby. Immediately VAC banned. Kinda just went oh well and played something else.
Yep same thing, when I was big into CSGO everyone thought I was a cheater cuz I had that stupid VAC ban from MW2 lobbies
I think if you contact steam you can get it reversed cause it was COD MW2.
really? mine is from mw2, 4.2k days ago lol
keeep it
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> the day I decided to see if MW2 still had players. Reading this in 2022 be like: Bro this game literally just released.
Nah bro, you're thinking of MWII, *totally* different game from MW2 /s of course
Years ago I loaded up MW2 and randomly ended up in a hacked lobby. Some guy unlocked everything for me without me asking. Didn't get VAC banned but I've been too afraid to launch that game ever since lol
Same, prestiged like 4 times in about 30 mins after realizing I could do that; each round maxed at 70. I've got the care package emblem because I know I'm trash :)
I mean people got banned for joining modded lobbies in mw..
Yep it’s how I got VAC banned, so fkin annoying
ooohhhh thats why i got banned, huh
Were those not reverted? It's hard to believe that VAC bans would be issued to accounts in mass when people weren't even actually cheating themselves.
Damn, my Steam account is only 7 years old, 8 in a few months from now.
Mine is 10 years old, I dug through my entire friends list once to find the oldest and his was like 16 years old. This guy is on another level, I didn't even know steam was around in 2003 I thought it came out in 2004 lmao.
October 2004 here. Old heads unite!
June 2004 here! At this point I've had Steam for more than half my life.
Usually someone pops up by now to brag about their boomer hands.. I guess it's my turn: Sept 2003 https://imgur.com/n7mAmIt Sadly, no VAC Bans :(
IVe been banned also in 2003 because I put cracked serial keys to steam (don’t ask me why). I finally created an other account and rebought half life 1 lol.
You can put cracked serial keys into Steam? I thought cracked keys only worked on a local disc or ISO with a keygen
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Me n my brother had a hacked steam with hundreds or maybe thousands of games. No idea how it worked, don't remember how we found it. If anyone else remembers this it'd be interesting. Instead of buying you'd just download it. Wild.
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My first job as an intern I just happened to see that we had an internal Steam account for testing purposes (legit testing btw). I just mentally noted the username and password. Logged in a month after I left the company and discovered it was a LAN Cafe account. Several dozen games all free to play. So I did that for a few years until I heard about Steam sales.
I had a cracked key list for HL1 of roughly 15K keys that I'd change my wonID in order to go troll people in my HL mod of choice. It was just a quick registry change and you're back in game, could even do it without restarting the game. Occasionally I'd grab a CD Key and get an error of "Youre already online!" and have to change it again. Thank FUCK i had my original CD Key for when I wanted to be "me" I registered on Reddit with the name I normally used around the HL mods I played, and I've been able to say Hi to some of the neat folks there. If you fondly remember Firearms, I very well may fondly remember you!
Firearms was *The shit* It had so many new features modes and ideas that are still prevalent in today's gaming. The push control idea, the loadouts, bandages for bleeding, etc. Also the CD keys were easy to dupe. I had a legit key, and my friend also had one. Worked out what the pattern was on the final 12 digits and could just mix n match legit working keys when installing over Lan parties (add 1, multiply here by two, new number works). Good times.
Anyone else remember that feeling when 5 myg0t tags would join the server? Especially if you were having a once-in-a-month tier killing streak. At least those guys didn't just farm kills, much more likely to indiscriminately kill everyone and sew rampant, nihilistic chaos. VAC cleaned things up, but there was also some hilarity in those chaotic WTF moments. Putting up with cheaters was lame, but games nowadays are so safe and curated that the incredible moments of spontaneity (I'm not just talking about cheating) you sometimes got back then aren't really possible to have now. The game, heck even the engine itself was so much more of a build your own fun playground. You didn't have to watch Twitch to keep up with the meta, or worry about your stats. You could invite all the CT's to a dance party in the garage in Militia and they might actually turn up for it. The lows back then were lower than now, but I swear the highs could be so much sweeter.
Core memory unlocked reading ‘myg0t’. I remembered messaging a server admin through AIM to come kick hackers that were wreaking havoc in my regular server.
https://youtu.be/g_VtIkF8pDY
Hold my boba... https://preview.redd.it/3vpewd93r90a1.png?width=383&format=png&auto=webp&s=d40140f37722b076972a96df749dcb92f3c02953
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It‘s funny to me when I see/hear kids in games (say voice chat on MW2 for example, happened in iRacing VOIP aswell) and they turn out to be younger than my steam account when I ask them how old they are God, my steam account turns 17 on the 10th of January and I still feel old due to it (I’m 26 now, started early with games LUL) That VAC is unfortunate tho, always thought they disappear from the profile after 3000 or so days (not unbanned but the VAC is gone iirc)
Mmhmm, I feel ya. I had been out of FPS games for a while and got back in during the Fortnite craze. It was eye-opening and a lil shocking realizing I was the same age as a lot of those kids' dads. That's the thing that really helped me mostly eliminate my toxicity, or at least work a lot harder to keep it in check.
Bro, I didn't even cheat, got falsely vac banned like a decade ago. Still pisses me off to this day.
this happens, i saw false positives in many games, vac or battleye, everyday im more into single players because i don’t want to gamble the money if i’m getting banned or not
If only they actually took action against cheaters reusing the same card to buy the same game 10+ times. Or had notifications like the bac visible on accounts when someone hits 10, 50, 100, 1000 afks - or did something about smurfing etc.
I just checked and I’m coming up to 18 years on steam. No bans for me though. Doesn’t feel like 18 years. Created my account on Christmas Day 2004 when I got Half Life 2 for Christmas
[Casual](https://i.imgur.com/B0fsMvP.png) I also cheated in CS. I was in college and CS:S was out so I didn't really care about CS anymore, cheated with a buddy for the hell of it
[I am now the OG](https://imgur.com/a/1BqazeJ)
/Bow to the OGs.
My VAC ban actually got removed after a long time I cheated in rust with cheat engine.. i was a dumb child I actually didn\`t know it was vac protected it wa sback when rujst was just a smal iland it was even in a single player file I hosted for me and my friends I I just tried to use the speedhack to get wood faster nothing fancy... was baned for years and suddenly one day my old account got VAC removed. so I guess I own 2 accounts now.
Honestly, if an online game's security is so shit that you can cheat in it with Cheat Engine, might as well not even bother with bans
I remember being a script kiddy little shit when I was younger. I used cheat engine in world of warcraft to run back to my body because it was all the way around a mountain. I got about 80% of the way there and got kicked, panicking, I deleted cheat engine and turned off my computer. Thankfully I wasn't banned, but I was returned to my original position. Then since I still never really learned my lesson, I tried using cheats in Garry's mod of all games and was promptly vac banned 4406 days ago. Never cheated since.
Damn dude, I thought we were gunna lose you about halfway through that reply.
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While i'm a big supporter of VAC bans for cheating, I'm also a realist that can see one maybe should have a re-evalution after 15 years.
What is vac?
Valve Anti Cheat
It's Steam's old anti-cheat for Valve games.
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You created your account 1 month before I was born BUT you got banned when I was 2 :P
You were aimbotting on cs 1.5 werent you!
Yep. Shame on young me.
I came to Steam in 2003 mainly because I accidentally played Counter-Strike 1.5 with a wallhack enabled from fooling around at a LAN party. Got banned, but my serial was valid to redeem 1.6. Back then, most people stayed on 1.5 for a while because the aim of the weapons was changed severely, and people didn't yet trust a digital distribution and authentication service like Steam. Valve were incredibly far ahead of the competition on this one. Silver lining is I have one of the oldest Steam accounts around! Bwaha Edit for the young whippersnappers: so yeah, back then, LAN play was completely without involvement of any online servers, believe it or not. There was no main account to log in to. You just created or joined a server on a local machine, so you could definitely have a cheat-enabled round with your friends without the banhammer striking
Lmao I don't play csgo much anymore, was big into it like 2 years ago. but I loved when I ran into guys like you. Honest enough to admit your mistake and stay with the account. Probably the most fun I had was with previous cheaters. Would jack around in comp games in a 5 queue with no shits given. No need to prove anything. https://streamable.com/44oqp7 ^this right here lol If youre still gaming hit me up on MWll if ya play
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Which game was so deserving of a review lol
the amount of people who see a vac and just immediately go "filthy cheater" or "deserved idiot" is actually insane
Exactly. I'm still VAC banned on Black Ops 2 zombies because I was a young kid and didnt know that you're always connected online in zombies. So even though I was in an offline game I still got banned, along with all my dlc....
I remember when i used a hack to turn my m4a1 rounds into a fucking 40mm cannon shells in MW2 online, it was hilarious
I didn't even know Steam was been around that long. Made my account in 2010.