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Valve also pushes the idea that VAC is never wrong, meaning no one is given any benefit of the doubt over a ban. If someone admits to having a VAC ban online, they will be relentlessly harassed and bullied. It is common for players to try linking accounts of players who have annoyed them to previously banned accounts and harassing them over it. On the other hand, this also creates a toxic atmosphere for anyone who has received a ban. Creating a new account to cheat with is one option but is another hurdle that many first time or casual cheaters will not bother doing. If they don't care about the game, being banned from it is not a punishment.

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This fear dissuades some cheaters who want to download a game purely to cheat in it. The social downsides are beneficial in some regards, such as adding additional fear of receiving a ban. Due to this, banned players are often bullied or barred from playing in some other Steam games' online communities. Even being friends with too many VAC banned accounts is enough to have people question you throughout the Steam community. No one wants the VAC label on their profile page. Valve has consistently pushed for VAC to be publicly visible on an account and heavily stigmatised. These restrictions, however, are only a fraction of the punishment. A ban limits a few aspects of the Steam platform and prevents online play in the game (or group of games in some cases) that the ban was applied in. VAC, Valve's Anti-Cheat System used widely across many Steam games, is known to have unforgiving lifetime bans for anything that it deems as cheating.

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