Valve has banned over 40,000 Steam accounts following its annual Steam Summer Sale.<\/p>\n
The day after the sale concluded, a record 40,445 Steam accounts received a VAC (Valve anti-cheat) ban for cheating, according to data from\u00a0SteamDB<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The VAC ban wave was the biggest in Steam\u2019s history, eclipsing the previous record of 15,227 VAC bans.<\/p>\n An additional 5,000 users received game bans on 6 July, which ban an account from playing a certain game online.<\/p>\n Valve has banned over 40,000 Steam accounts following its annual Steam Summer Sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":108223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6136,85,24759],"class_list":["post-119009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-pc-games","tag-steam","tag-vac-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Steam Direct \u2013 $100 to get your game in Valve\u2019s store<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"