Vac Banned, But I'm a legit player.

VAC, and by extension, WON, has existed for nearly two decades. In those nearly two decades of operation, every single documented false positive has been overturned. In all of those years, I have yet to see a single person legitimately and truly screwed over.

As someone who has used Steam since the beginning and played on Valve WON servers prior to that, and prior to that played through the punkbuster years, I can tell you right now that there is huge money in proving that VAC is insecure and spits out false positives on a regular basis. On top of securing the anti-cheat program market, proving that VAC is insecure and hands out random bans for no reason would be irrevocably damaging to Steam and Valve's brand in general. EA slings enough shit about how great their refund policy is compared to Valve – you don’t think they are drooling at the concept of being able to prove that VAC is banning people for no reason to foster fear in the community over using Steam?

So, excuse me for trusting a 14 year old system that Is used by hundreds of thousands of unique accounts per day and has been used by millions of people over one person on one forum providing no proof other than “I didn’t do it!,” which has been the chorus cheaters have used the entire time I’ve been on the internet.

If you are legitimately innocent, hand over all of your information to Valve and wait. Don’t act like an immature kid and freak out and send thirty support tickets or register multiple accounts to try to get noticed. Send in a support ticket on your main account, type maturely and don’t resort to ad-hominems, provide all of the pertinent information, and wait. Send an email to all of the valve support channels as well. If you did not cheat, then you are fine. You can find plenty of examples of this happening. If you did cheat, you’re wasting everyone’s time and your attempts to cover it up and play innocent are hurtful for the gaming community at large.

/r/Steam Thread Parent