{"id":1824,"date":"2015-05-06T14:07:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2015-05-06T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T21:07:16","slug":"developers-can-now-ban-users-from-their-games-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"Developers can now ban users from their games on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve will now allow developers with games on Steam to ban players from their titles on a game-by-game basis, the company announced last week.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Separate from Valve Anti-Cheat, this policy will allow developers to run their own anti-cheat monitoring and take action on anything they find. If a developer finds a cheater, they then notify Valve. Valve will ban the user specifically from the online services for that game.<\/p>\n<p>The developer will hold sole power to apply (and likely remove) the ban \u2013 Valve simply takes actions on their orders. Previously, only Valve was able to take action on cheaters, and that is on a service-wide basis.<\/p>\n<p>More granular options like these will hopefully allow developers to improve the more problematic aspects of their communities that Valve\u2019s system-wide solutions can\u2019t address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve will now allow developers with games on Steam to ban players from their titles on a game-by-game basis, the company announced last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}