Valve VAC bans the CS2 account of Arsenal’s Striker Gabriel Jesus, losing him $38,000 worth of in-game skins

Gabriel Jesus is the next on the list of unfair Counter-Strike VAC Bans!

Valve VAC bans the CS2 account of Arsenal’s Striker Gabriel Jesus, losing him $38,000 worth of in-game skins

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FPS games have always been the backbone of the gaming community. Furthermore, Vavle’s Counter-Strike, a game that started off as a mod, has generated a strong player base of more than 100 million. Counter-Strike is one of the oldest FPS games and has been around for more than 24 years. Moreover, Counter-Strike has always had quite a strike anti-policy. There have been many famous gamers whose accounts Valve has VAC banned due to suspicion of cheating in-game. However, this time Valve has banned the CS2 account of Arsenal’s striker Gabriel Jesus, losing the footballer $38,000 worth of skins!

Counter-Strike has always been really big on its skin market. The game has the biggest in-game skin market among all games. Moreover, CS skins Karambit Blue Gem sell for over $120K! Moreover, recently, for the first time in the decade-old history of Counter-Strike, an AK 47 Blue Gem with a unique 661 pattern has come out with a speculated price of $1,000,000! This just shows how great and huge Counter-Strike’s skin collection is.

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However, VAC bans can sometimes be the death of all these skins. What makes CS skins so valuable is the ability to trade these said skins with anyone in the world. Gamers can trade CS skins to any Steam account or any third-party website. However, VAC bans can take away this exact ability to trade. And many players have inventory worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Moreover, this time, it’s Arsenal’s Striker Gabriel Jesus, whose CS2 account has received a VAC ban, making him lose $38,000 worth of in-game inventory!

Gabriel Jesus receives a VAC ban on his CS2 account, says it’s unfair

The beauty behind the in-game skin market of CS is the ability to engage in one-on-one trades with others. Unlike other games, where players can directly buy skins, in CS, players need to open cases, which has a very low probability for high-tier skins. So, this gives these in-game skins real market value. Many skins in CS sell for hundreds, if not millions, of dollars! And VAC bans can make this all worthless. This ban can come to any player, even if they’re not cheating or using in-game hacks.

Gabriel Jesus receives a VAC ban on his CS2 account, says it's unfair $38,000
Hot Rob M4A1-S (credits: rechyyy on YouTube)

Furthermore, that’s what happened to Gabriel Jesus, the famous strike of Arsenal, the football club, after he got VAC banned on CS2. Recently, the footballer received a VAC ban and took it to his official X handle. He even said how this was an unfair ban and has made his $38,000 worth of inventory worthless now.

Gabriel has skins like a $800 M4A1-S Hot Rod, customized with high-end CS2 stickers. Moreover, many such skins are not untradeable for Gabriel. Gabriel Jesus tagged the official account for CS2 and asked them for help with the ban, saying that it was unfair. Just unfair bans are more frequent in CS2 than players think.

VAC bans can result from a variety of factors. Mostly, the causes are spyware or third-party apps interfering with the game program. But occasionally, VAC bans have also been issued inadvertently. For example, a recent driver upgrade for AMD GPU users resulted in a large number of mistaken bans. Most of the time, Steam support can help with these unfair bans, so fans are hoping Gabriel has his issue resolved!

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