【翻譯】夏季促銷:Steam禁四萬作弊賬號

原標題：Valve bans 40,000 cheating accounts after the Steam Summer Sale

原作者：Andrew Tarantola

More than 40,000 disingenuous gamers lost access to their games, items -- and in some cases, their entire accounts -- last weekend after the Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) system flagged them for violations. No, thats not a typo, 40,411 players have been nicked by the companys robotic rule enforcer. Thats nearly triple the previous banning record from 2016, which stood at a meager 15,227 players.

超過四萬個不誠實的賬號無法訪問他們的遊戲和虛擬物品——在某些案例之中，這就是他們的整個賬號——上周末，在Valve反作弊系統（VAC）因為他們的違規，把他們給標記了出來。不，這不是一個打字失誤，40,411位玩家被這家公司的自動執法者給狙擊了。這幾乎是2016年的禁止記錄的三倍。這也有15,227位玩家。

Valves VAC system doles out around 3,500 suspensions on an average day. However, on Thursday July 6th, an unprecedented wave of bannings took place. The VAC had hammered nearly 30,000 accounts by noon Pacific. Valve launched this operation immediately after the end of its annual Summer Sale, presumably to prevent scofflaws from taking advantage of the events discounted prices on games.

Valve的這個系統每天會挖出約3500個懸案，但是，在7月6號星期四，一項史無前例的禁令頒布了。這個系統打擊將近三萬個太平洋中部的賬號。Valve在它的年度暑期促銷結束以後馬上發起行動，有力地使這些違規者無法佔活動特價的便宜。

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