Valve Restricts Over 2500 Accounts After Marking a Negative Review as "Helpful," Warning Buyers

Valve has restricted over 2500 Steam accounts after banning a negative review of "Warlander" that criticized its "shady" anti-cheat system.

[banger88]

That's....interesting. I wonder if the Warlander devs/publisher threatened Steam with a lawsuit?

[ZycoFox]

Kekw.. Controlling speech now just like the UK does. How lame and oppressive.

Valve's anti cheat is also BS because they won't take the ban off even if your account was hacked and cheated on, because your account is your responsibility, but they give back hacked steam wallet funds.. Nice sense there Valve.

[Bobertt]

Valve is going downhill. First by forcing everyone to upgrade Windows for Microsoft or lose all their games and now restricting people from criticizing games in a review.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Windows 7/8 is loaded with vulnerabilities and has reached end of life support. People should upgrade.

[Bobertt]

Doesn't matter if they don't want to support it that shouldn't mean they should stop you from playing all the games you already payed for. All the games i have run fine on Windows 7 and i have no issues with security for over 10 years. That's like if you couldn't play any of your games on your PS4 anymore because Sony moved onto the PS5. This is bad for gamers because whenever Microsoft of Google say they want to push people to buy a new OS regardless of if it's good or not they can get Valve to push all gamers to buy it against their will by saying they will block all your games on the old one.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

@Bobertt,
With the success of the Steam Deck and Proton, you could play most of those games on Linux if you didn't want to upgrade Windows.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

No point supporting those older systems, they already passed their end of life services (e.g. no updates) and I believe that newer versions of Google Chrome, which the Steam Client is based on, isn't supported on those older systems. Anyway, Windows 10 is really good, so there isn't much reason to not upgrade to that version at least (plus it was offered for free for a long time).

Not gunna lie, this news doesn't upset me at all, I'm more upset about what this article talks about, that and how they ban/allow anime/Visual Novels on their store front.

[gamerz]

Restricting accounts because they upvoted a review is nonsense.

[blackblades]

Yeah, but then they shouldnt upvoted a bias review. I think i got suspended here on n4g for agreeing on a report

[Silver_ShadoWolf]

So if they upvoted a positive review, wouldn’t that still be bias? Whole point of the upvote is to agree with likeminded people…

[blackblades]

Lol I said yeah cause I agree with the guy saying banning of accounts that upvoted a review was nonsense and stupid. Upvoting means you agree with them and you wouldve wrote the same thing and got banned as well. Example If your a racist and you said you hate black people and people upvoted shows they are a racist as well like banned those MF to. At the end of day I still think its stupid to banned the ones the upvoted cause technically they didnt right it.

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

It's a crappy move from Valve, but restricting accounts from upvoting/rewarding reviews for 30 days... I'm sure those people will survive just fine.

[GOULDYBOBS]

Think it's the principle of oppression of free speech

[anast]

Steam has full control of everyone's games.