Valve Compensates and Unbans 12,000 Innocent Gamers

Proving once again why they are loved by so many, Valve have unbanned and compensated 12,000 gamers who were incorrectly and unfairly banned for cheating in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Not only removing them from their VACuum (sorry) of despair, Valve have awarded the disgruntled players two copies of Left 4 Dead 2 for their lost hours of shooting people in the face. That’s right, two- one to play and one to gift. Because killing zombies is so much more fun with a friend.

That totals a whopping 24,000 games handed out for the mistake, sure to put a smile on some of the (now un) banned player’s faces. The glitch that caused the mass-bannage was down to a bug in Valve’s VAC anti-cheating system that tricked the system into identifying harmless players as filthy, cheating good-for-nothing fun-fiddlers. Valve originally took no responsibility for the bans, but later realised it was their fault after all after some digging around in the system.

Valve head Gabe Newell sent out a personal message to the affected players, admitting; “This was our mistake, and I apologize for any frustration or angst it may have caused you. 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.”

Stay classy, Valve.

GameIndustry, via G4TV