Steam account bans now more lenient

[Faperture]

It was welcome news last week that EA had revised its Origin ban policy, no longer blocking banned players from every game they own on the digital distribution platform. It's since come to light that Valve has made a similar change on Steam--over two months ago, in fact. Hurrahs all round!

Steam accounts are now locked, rather than outright disabled, Steam forum volunteer moderator 'heffebaycay' pointed out. Locked accounts can still play their games, but are not able purchase any more, activate games from keys, gift games, or use Steam's trading features.

Being banned and losing every game you've bought on an account is a common anxiety still surrounding digital distribution, so these moves from Steam and Origin are certainly welcome.

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This is something that for some reason has never crossed my mind when buying games on Steam. I would flip if my account was banned. It's bad enough I don't actually own a physical copy of my games. This is defintiely something I'll think about before purchasing games in the future.

[Dateranoth]

Yep and there was the problem of people having their accounts stolen and losing everything. Which makes me glad they have the extra protection now. Still, I'm with you and don't like the idea that I could lose all of these games. However, as far as games go we don't truly own anything with the current licensing laws.