Apologising to approximately 12,000 disgruntled Modern Warfare 2 gamers erroneously flagged as “rocket whores” or “camping sniper bitches” (or whatever we’re calling cheating bastards these days), Valve have doled out free copies of Left 4 Dead 2 to the affected as a sign of their contriteness.
Gabe Newell, Valve President and recent PS3 convert, has commented on the unfortunate use of an over-zealous ban-hammer by stating:
“This was our mistake, and I apologise for any frustration or angst it may have caused you. The problem was that Steam would fail a signature check between the disk version of a DLL and a latent memory version. This was caused by a combination of conditions occurring while Steam was updating the disk image of a game. This wasn’t a game-specific mistake. Steam allows us to manage and reverse these erroneous bans (about 12,000 erroneous bans over two weeks).
“We have reversed the ban, restoring your access to the game. In addition, we have given you a free copy of Left 4 Dead 2 to give as a gift on Steam, plus a free copy for yourself if you didn’t already own the game.”
Gabe went on to then whisper the mantra of “Portal 3 … Portal 3 …” over and over in an attempt to disorientate and bewitch those still pissed at not being able to go online and shoot virtual people while being bombarded with insults from little snots who should know better.
Source: Edge
3shirts
No no, the PC gaming elite are pure and untouched by swearing or youth
Tuffcub
Are we doing PC news now? Did i miss a memo?
Danza Di Fuoco
More news and TSA points right?
Zarkon
Steam news = PS3 news now… :o)
Person678
I love Gabe, nicest guy in the industry. What other head of company personally responds to mail?
tonycawley
I must have missed something here, what happened? Why did they ban people? From the pc call of duty? Can somebody Please fill me in?
Tuffcub
Steam banned a load of Modern Warfare 2 players by mistake, on the PC version, Valve apologised and gave everyone a copy of Left 4 Dead 2.
tonycawley
What do steam and valve have to do with modern warfare 2? What did they cite as the reasons for banning? Surely it wasn’t for using the grenade launcher as implied in this article?
Kovacs
Modern Warfare 2 is available on Steam. The reason they were banned was because there was a glitch in their anti-cheat software (the issue Gabe describes) and people were flagged as cheaters when they actually were not.
Blayney
No rocket whores or camping sniper bitches at the moment. It’s all about the “AA-12 pussies” or “riot shield wankers” for me.
E8_BALL_
vary rarely use a shield, but when i do it funny as dishing out a melee, after opponent has tried to run away
hmm maybe that was you
bunimomike
Up there with the Caps Lock key, eh? Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
Kronik76
Actually, if you’re going to be technical about it, it would be the shift key ;-)
E8_BALL_
no caps/shift on ps3 browser
btw, sorry isnt a sentance therefore no full stop
put that in ur pipe & smoke it
BIGAL-1992
R2 for CAPS lock, full stop is in clear view on the options list and I’ve typed full sentences on here on my PS3.
Jackarseboyz
Portal 3 lol, we havent even got portal 2 yet