Cheating will not get you banned on steam though, at worst your account is publicly shamed if its a VAC game.
People play multiplayer games to have fun and interact with others. If you behave badly, be it cheating or otherwise, you should be banned from using the multiplayer service because your behavior impacts other people.
> If you behave badly, be it cheating or otherwise, you should be banned from using the multiplayer service because your behavior impacts other people.
What if you behaved great but some guy fresh out of code boot camp's algorithm bans you?
Bugs and mistakes happen, when that happens it's typically some misidentification of a process or driver so a group of players get banned. And in every one of those cases I've seen they've been unbanned. The call of duty case is probably the worst one I've read about, also an outlier.
People play multiplayer games to have fun and interact with others. If you behave badly, be it cheating or otherwise, you should be banned from using the multiplayer service because your behavior impacts other people.