***The issue is that Valve treats all bans like VAC bans, which display on your profile, blocks you from Valve official giveaways, and significantly lower your trust factor in CS:GO.***
Seems like it’s more important to not have bans put on by developers treated like VAC bans to me. A ban from 7 years ago on a profile probably gets ignored by gamers, let alone I don’t think people even look at other peoples’ profiles to begin with unless they are already friends. The bigger issue is a third-party being able to affect Valve-provided services. That’s a bit of power that should be reserved for Valve alone and seems like a cop-out default action on Valve’s part.


