Trayder Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 (edited) So I had warframe running in the background to see alerts while I was playing a flash game. I ran a 'cheat program' to try and skip grinding in the flash game, it didnt work so I closed it without doing anything. Now I'm banned from Warframe till 2035. Then I came here and saw the warning in the hours old update. Take the warning literally, it's the equivalent of (in a hypothetical situation) having your steam account banned because it detected a bittorrent client on your computer. Edited April 24, 2013 by Trayder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slorch Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 wow that sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObsidianSky Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 (edited) Could be truth, could be a lame excuse. Use twitter / facebook / the forums to check for alerts instead when you absolutely have to use Cheatengine for stuff. Edited April 24, 2013 by ObsidianSky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan_ Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Strange. Steam never bothered me about my torrent client. <resists the temptation to quote Guybrush Threepwood about cheaters> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takomancer Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 (edited) steam doesn't ban because you have bittorrent on. If you are talking about VAC, the anti-cheat system is very accurate in banning players. Also send a ticket if you think you have been banned for "that" reason you have described. Edited April 24, 2013 by Takomancer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinnyshin Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 And this is where we get to see how the appeal process works! Please do keep us updated. Even if it doesn't go well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babalenong Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 gees im scared to even run warframe now, haha... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voidstalker Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Now I'm banned from Warframe till 2035. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slorch Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 gees im scared to even run warframe now, haha... if you do nothing wrong then you have nothing to be afraid of :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeventyTwo Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 steam doesn't ban because you have bittorrent on. If you are talking about VAC, the anti-cheat system is very accurate in banning players. Also send a ticket if you think you have been banned for "that" reason you have described. Maybe I misread the patch-note but they don't mention VAC being the anti-cheat program for Warframe. As far as I know Steam is only hosting the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trayder Posted April 24, 2013 Author Share Posted April 24, 2013 Uhhh, to clarify steam doesn't ban you for having bittorrent or anything like that (I was describing a hypothetical situation). There have been cases in the past where certain horrifying DRMs have prevented legitimate games from working if you have mounted disk drives etc. if you wanted a real example. Anyways, yeah I've dispatched a support ticket and I'll keep y'all posted. Point was just be very careful what you're running while warframe is open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Bilko_ Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Well, it's pretty simple, if you are going to cheat in a game, only have that game open and nothing else.Warframe alert updates are here: https://twitter.com/WarframeAlertsOr....go here for an app: http://www.kingtaro.com/warframe/mobile/Now you have no excuse :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOXY. Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I think I've encountered the same issue, and had my poor account suspended. Except I was using the Cheat Engine to debug and note down values in an application rather than "cheat" in anything. I carelessly left the application open in the background and started Warframe, did a single mission before re-logging and discovering that my account had been banned. I find it a little unreasonable that the simple presence of the application warrants such action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katakuna Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Now I'm banned from Warframe till 2035. I'm sorry, but I laughed so hard at this. Will this game even be around in 22 years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FateZero Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Players that claim to have an excuse can send in a support ticket to appeal the ban. They may or may not let you off one time, since it is a new feature just added.In the hotfix topic, one person was already given a pass, and it was clear that this person was cheating. Less QQ here, more QQ in the support ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okiesmokie Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 So I had warframe running in the background to see alerts while I was playing a flash game. I ran a 'cheat program' to try and skip grinding in the flash game, it didnt work so I closed it without doing anything. Now I'm banned from Warframe till 2035. Then I came here and saw the warning in the hours old update. Take the warning literally, it's the equivalent of (in a hypothetical situation) having your steam account banned because it detected a bittorrent client on your computer. Uh no, it's the equivalent of having your steam account banned because you had an aim bot running. It doesn't matter if you were using the cheat program on a flash game or warframe, you're $&*&*#(%& if you left warframe running while having it active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archistopheles Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I'm sorry, but most of those I've seen that get perma-banned from video games are guilty of two things:1. Doing something bad. 2. Lying about it on the forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisvogel Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Honestly, it should come to no surprise that you get banned for having cheating/hacking programs running in the background.... even if you are not using in the particular game you get banned from. It's pretty common, and you have such program running after all... so there's no excuse. Also, it's not unreasonable at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synapse_X Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I'm sorry, but most of those I've seen that get perma-banned from video games are guilty of two things: 1. Doing something bad. 2. Lying about it on the forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GottFaust Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I'm sorry, but most of those I've seen that get perma-banned from video games are guilty of two things: 1. Doing something bad. 2. Lying about it on the forums. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mak_Gohae Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Ha! I like this, you get banned for using any cheat program. It doesnt even matter if it was a cheat program for this game! Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHarlequin Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 (edited) To paraphrase the appeal request that would be the truth. "I had warframe running when I cheated in another game so I shouldn't be banned." It just doesn't have the same feel as saying, I wasn't cheating on anything and I think the program may have misinterpreted my spreadsheet software. Neither of which should really work. I always worry that an automated system may get too sensitive but they have been getting better over time. Though some situations are ridiculous. Since steam and VAC were mentioned, I'm sure you might find it funny to hear that some games consider the steam overlay to be a cheat program and will shut down if you don't disable the overlay. On a second note about the VAC comment. Warframe isn't using VAC, but probably a program similar to it that is meant to detect any possible third party interaction with the warframe client. If your other programs will not do anything to warframe or even interact with any shared resources (Video card for example) then it would not be improperly caught as a cheat program. Which means, if you don't use a cheat program, you won't be caught for cheating, which logically means, don't cheat and you won't be banned. Edited April 24, 2013 by JHarlequin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myo86 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 cheating for a flash game ur lie is awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZefiruShrike Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I'm sorry, but most of those I've seen that get perma-banned from video games are guilty of two things: 1. Doing something bad. 2. Lying about it on the forums. Yeah, gonna have to call BS on that. When you implement a system that is capable of auto-banning, lots of innocents get caught in the crossfire. I got permabanned from a game because I was using Xpadder so that I could play it using a controller (Dungeon Fighter Online if you must know. Their native controller support was atrocious, and NOT using a controller for a beat 'em up seemed like a crime). I've also gotten banned from a game because their crappy cheat detection software thought the Steam Overlay was a hack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aroo Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Ha! I like this, you get banned for using any cheat program. It doesnt even matter if it was a cheat program for this game! Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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