Cheater bygones?įor years now, Valve's zero-tolerance approach to VAC enforcement has suggested how seriously it takes evidence of cheating in the hundreds of games that use the system. 'The only change is how they influence your eligibility to play in Valve-sponsored events,' the blog post notes. That's a pretty big change for a system whose defining feature is consequences that are supposed to be 'permanent' and 'non-negotiable.' And those other VAC consequences-including loss of access to all VAC-protected multiplayer servers, achievements, tradable vanity items, etc.-will still remain in place. The CS:GO team notes in the post that its event guidelines were initially written around the game's 2012 release, when 'all CS:GO VAC bans were relatively recent.' Now, though, the team has decided to update those guidelines to reflect the fact that 'VAC bans can now be more than eight years old.' As such, VAC bans older than five years, as well as VAC bans that pre-date a player's first participation in a Valve-sponsored event, will no longer be taken into account when assessing RMR event eligibility.

A post to the Counter-Strike: GO blog yesterday notes that some VAC-banned players will now be able to participate in events surrounding the game's next Regional Major Rankings (RMR) season. Further Reading YouTubers escape fines for promoting their own CS:GO gambling siteNow, apparently, there is one sizable exception to this rule, at least when it comes to esports.

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