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Valve Bans 10,000 Users For Gravity Gun Abuse

Um.... This is an old one, and I'm not really sure if it's a joke or not, but...

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Bellevue, WA - Game developer Valve announced on their forums that they had banned another 10,000 Steam accounts for "gravity gun abuse" in their popular Half-Life 2 game. The company cited two reasons which prompted the ban. First, complaints from non-player characters (NPC) and secondly complaints from Valve's own modelers.

Barney"We received a formal complaint from Barney of the Video Game Security Guard Union, stating the abuse from players was getting 'out of hand' and needed to be stopped. Particularly, from players using the gravity gun," said Valve's NPC Union Liaison Greg Palmer.

"We also received many complaints from our own modelers saying that nobody was using the weapons that they created. It just wasn't fair. We only put the grav gun in as a gimmick. We have found some people are using it to beat the game," continued Palmer.

"I spent 6 hours making the Combine gun mesh," said one modeler, "And now no one uses it."
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Palmer noted that Valve, like other video game companies, was responsive to its NPC's and programmers' needs. "Banning these abusers was the only choice."

The gaming community was outraged. One upset user posted, "They put this cool weapon in their game and then ban us for using it. I'm never buying another game from Valve until Half-Life 3 comes out."

Valve also released a new patch for Half-Life 2 which would force players to swap weapons every three minutes, so they can get truly enjoy all the hard work the programmers have done. "This will prevent us from having to ban users in the future," said Palmer.

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And you had a hard time telling if it was a joke?

You should stay with the webcomic posting post thing you do =B

BUT i did hear stuff reagrding Valve banning players for frivolous reasons

I remember playing with a guy who stuck his opponents in the ground, then shot them, or getting under something, reversing gravity until everyone was up in the sky, and then putting gravity back on at a factor of 10, killing everyone that fell more than the tiny distance he fell. Admin hacks... I tells ya!

Next thing you know, Aperture Science is going to fire employees for using the ASHPD.

yea and dont forget originally they were gonna put the portal gun in half-life. can you imagine it?

Seriously can you? I can, totally awesome!

Guys! Guys! Did you here that Microsoft is now banning anyone who using any weapon in Halo 3 that's not the Assault Rifle! They're also banning anyone who uses any vehicle except for the Elephant! The decision was made in response to all the NPCs who were complaining about "rocket whores", "sniper whores", "plasma sword whores", "grav hammer whores", etc. (:p)

EDIT: HOLYFUCKSHITDAMN!!! THIS IS MY 1000TH POST AND I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE!!!!!!

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You should stay with the webcomic posting post thing you do =B

No, no he shouldn't. It's borderline spam. As is posting articles without discussion. As he's been informed before.

Please Seil, don't make us be the bad guys here. This isn't the discussion forum so I won't be making a big issue but you gotta shape this up, guy.

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Originally Posted by Seil

Half Life 2 - Portal Gun

incidently that kinda shows off some reasons they didn't put it in. Was too hard to balance such a unique weapon for typical first person shooter.

unless my memory is faulty, I dont know. After playing portal its hard to accept ANY reason to not put it in every game from now on. In fact screw that, they should build a time machine and retro-actively put the portal gun in every game ever made.