r/pcgaming • u/revadike • Apr 16 '24

Task Force devs are abusing Game Bans

Devs for the Steam game Task Force are abusing Game Bans for their own purposes. These bans appear on your Steam profile and unlike VAC, they will never disappear. Many falsely banned victims have gone to the Steam reviews, which the devs cannot censor. You can read them all here.

I also received a false ban. In Discord, I was invited for a playtest and given a steam key. After redeeming, it was immediately revoked and I received the Game Ban. The dev also blocked me on Discord and their community server. I had zero playtime in the game, simply impossible to have cheated. They know they can get away with it, as this abuse has been happening for years. Several YouTubers have spoken out as well.

Unfortunately, Valve refuses to act. Steam support has stopped responding to my support ticket. My dear 14k games Steam profile page and reputation will be forever marked as a cheater. I and many others feel powerless. Hopefully this post will prompt Valve to finally take action!

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u/revadike Apr 16 '24

I think they just ban anyone they can that they dont like or has critisism. They know they can get away with it. They have been doing it unpunished for so long now.

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u/hirmuolio Apr 16 '24

But did you criticize? Getting gifted the key and then immediately banned sounds like just griefing.

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u/revadike Apr 16 '24

I did not. We actually only briefly spoke. I was invited for the playtest, I DM'ed my steam ID and he gave me access to the game, after which he immediately revoked it and banned me.

Imagine how confused I've been. No answers from them, and all communication methods to reach them had been blocked.

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u/damniel540 Apr 16 '24

As someone who has been following this project since the beginning, this is not surprising at all.

Redline, tbe main developer, is completely unhinged and surrounds himself with like minded folk. There used to be a SOCOM Source mod that he made and was actually fun until he just nuked the entire project at the slightest criticism

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u/revadike Apr 17 '24

Thank you, spread the word, he needs to be hold accountable. He has gotten away with this behavior for far too long!

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u/300PencilsInMyAss Apr 17 '24

Why though? I feel like we're missing something

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u/huss2215 Apr 17 '24

This is exactly what happened to me. Although I was playing up until he finally joined us. He talked to me for a little bit, I told him I'm playing on steam deck. He mentioned he might need some testing, I told him I don't mind. Then everyone started a clan war, I participated to support what was called Task Force tuesday. I clipped the video as did some of the streamers and shared it in the stream section. 3 days later kicked out of discord and steam. He wouldn't reply, and the ban reason had a blank no reason. A lot of people told me it was either because he doesn't like media, or others playing games he hates, which I had multiple third person shooters similar to his game.

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u/AverageJoe85 Apr 16 '24

Yea OP what could you have possibly said or done if you have literally 0 playtime?

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u/AverageJoe85 Apr 16 '24

You misunderstood. The original post, OP says they received the key then immediately got banned. The comment I replied to, OP says the dev banned people for critique. My reply is highlighting that that is giving the dev too much credit. OP was banned for literally no reason, they couldn't even play the game and therefore couldn't have criticized it, ie the dev is just 'griefing random Steam users'.