Thank you Steam!

[ThePlague]

Well, fuck me harder than a hooker using a vacum, steam just got a 1st class ticket to the top of the butt fucking list. Since I felt like playing some Orange Box (because I haven't since I first got that shit, which was when it first came out) I decided to reinstall Steam. I couldn't remember my account at first, but I remembered it. (H4Z4l2D) And guess what happened to that account? It got fucking banned. So, either I find out a way to get that Orange Box CD key that I have on my new Steam Account (ThePlague897), or I have to buy the fucking thing again (which I probably can't because i'm poor as fuck).

Anyone have a sulution for me?

E: Sorry if this is in the wrong section, I didn't know exactly where to put it since most of it is a rant.

[Rook]

Banned? how did it get banned?

The only way this happened to me someone compromised my first account and I didn't play CSS on it, so i just didn't try to get it back and they eventually got it banned...

[Mr Buckshot]

And just why did the account get banned? If you're sure it was banned in error, then call up Steam's staff and complain to them, demand that they tell you why they banned it, etc. Anyway I don't think CD keys can be transferred between multiple Steam accounts, otherwise it would cost Valve a lot of profits...

If it got banned because someone hacked into it and then misused it, then you should also do a scan for keyloggers right now...

If you really paid for The Orange Box, then you do have the right to...you know (but if you didn't and you do that you're one very bad man).

[ThePlague]

If you really paid for The Orange Box, then you do have the right to...you know (but if you didn't and you do that you're one very bad man).
The case for the Orange Box is right next to me, and i'm holding the CD key in my hand that came from the box. So yeah, it's legit. I got it for christmas whenever it first came out (IDK when it did, lol) and I activated that account.

I'm pretty sure it got hacked, because I don't remember doing anything illegal on it (I HAD an account, seperate one of course, that I had Garrys Mod on, but I deleted it because I felt bad).

I don't think that they can do shit, because I went to the support center or whatever it is on the site, and it says 90 days after activation, and I need the receipt. Which of course I don't have, and i'm pretty sure it's over 90 days :/

[Mr Buckshot]

Huh, Steam sucks, one strike and it's money down the drain.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2347-QDFN-4366

See if it works


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[p0lar_bear]

Do you mean you're banned from the Steam service, or you've been VAC banned?

If it's a service ban, try Steam support. If it's VAC, you're SOL.

[RobertGraham]

If your account is banned for no reason in particular, you can file a law suite. That is not in the service agreement that they can just lock your account for not using it. Thats like Wal-Mart banning me from the store because I haven't shopped there in over a month. In a sense. If they did lock it for no reason, you can file for fraud, because that is money out of your pocket that you gave them and they turn around and lock your account.

[Syuusuke]

You better hope that no one used it either.

[ThePlague]

You better hope that no one used it either.
I'm almost positive it was hacked, because I don't think they'd just lock it for inactivity. I'll do what Buckshot said, and if that doesn't work i'll try something else.

[Limited]

Like buckshot said, fill out the support form. They wont have just banned it for any reason, so if it got banned due to some one else hacking it, they will have put that explaination.

I find it weird that it was hacked but the hacker didnt change the pass.


I couldn't remember my account at first, but I remembered it.
You said you couldnt remember it, then remembered it, did that all occur in your head or did you actually try to login via steam? They might have flagged it for too many incorrect entries.