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| 12,000 CoD MW2 Gamers "accidentily banned" |
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Jul 29, 2010 - 11:39 PM - by NightNinja
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A recent glitch caused 12,000 Modern Warfare 2 players on Steam to be banned for no apparent reason. Valve has owned up to the error and, as a way of making amends, is giving those who were banned a free copy of Left 4 Dead 2.
"The problem was that Steam would fail a signature check between the disk version of a DLL and a latent memory version," Valve President Gabe Newell wrote in a personal email to those affected. "This was caused by a combination of conditions occurring while Steam was updating the disk image of a game. This wasn't a game-specific mistake. Steam allows us to manage and reverse these erroneous bans (about 12,000 erroneous bans over two weeks).
Read more at Arstechnica.
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