Valve Is Handing Out Player Bans Of Up To 20 Years Skip to content Click here to check out the GameByte Shop great games, consoles and more! Don't get banned, y'all! Valve Is Handing Out Player Bans Of Up To 20 Years 18 September 2019 by Lara Jackson Valve has gotten some players laughing and others crying after the company began to hand out account bans that last up to 20 years. As shared by Twitter’s Nibel [via Dexerto], a number of Dota 2 players have been slapped with bans, some of them stretching up until January 2038. Valve is banning toxic Dota 2 players for up to 20 years with new matchmaking update(includes also players who sell/buy accounts, use exploits etc.)https://t.co/Po4Slwk2KC pic.twitter.com/4qNJx7FPKJ- Nibel (@Nibellion) September 18, 2019 The news comes following a recent matchmaking update, with the year 2038 being the furthest-away date in the system. It seems as though this is Valve’s version of a life-long ban from Dota 2.ADVERT ADVERT Reasons for the long bans reportedly include everything from the buying and selling of accounts, to abusive behaviour online. I think the intent here is to permanently ban these players since 20 years is the max value that can be put into the system according to the linked articleValve probably does not expect Dota 2 to exist for that long- Nibel (@Nibellion) September 18, 2019 Along with being very, very long bans, they’re also pretty smart bans. If a banned player tries to re-join a game of Dota 2 they’ll be clocked thanks to the blacklisted phone numbers associated with the account. According to one Reddit user the bans aren’t completely infallible. Simply changing the date on your PC will trick the system and let you back in, though down the line this behaviour will probably warrant another, more difficult to get around, ban. ADVERT ADVERT Credit: Valve Over on Twitter, people have been weighing on on how successful the banning model currently is. One user writes: “They should make the character health drop by a percentage each time. So if you have been a pain for ages you will only ever have characters with 1hp.” They should make the character health drop by a percentage each time. So if you have been a pain for ages you will only ever have characters with 1hp.- Colin Wyllie (@CJWyllie) September 18, 2019 Another user laments: “Now if only they did this for Overwatch…”ADVERT ADVERT Now if only they did this for overwatch…- GhostRooster ?? (@GhostRooster60) September 18, 2019 While some people are understandably pretty p*ssed off, one Twitter user sums up the situation pretty nicely, writing: “dota has started instituting 20-year ban waves and it’s so funny right now to see people post ‘why was i banned until 2039???’ on reddit and the first reply is ‘well i looked at your chat logs and it seems in 2000 games played, you said slurs in each one.'” https://twitter.com/Xoferatu/status/1174159643448397825 Featured Image Credit: Reddit User Vitamin-B6 TweetShareSharePin Follow us on @GameByte @gamebyte GameByte GameByte GameByte Noobs Play @GameByte @gamebyte GameByte GameByte GameByte Noobs Play External Links Policy GameByte Staff About GameByte Advertise with us Careers Ambassador Program Contact Terms and Conditions Privacy Policy Cookie Policy Manage Cookies Preferences Submit Your Content FragHero Sporf 9 to 5 Life Social Chain Social Chain Agency