MaximumPower 1 Posted March 28, 2019 This puts a big question mark on steam and on publishers if they should pick steam as a platform for digital download and cloud services. Some unnamed publisher decided to convince steam of a certain game server breaking steam TOS in their game this resulting in steam ip range blocking this particular server resulting in steam clients unable to respond to query and establish a connection thus affecting all and any game servers running on those ip's. This affects all servers that use steam from any developers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dedmen 2714 Posted March 28, 2019 Well that's their right if the server really violated ToS. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MaximumPower 1 Posted March 29, 2019 On 3/28/2019 at 12:27 PM, Dedmen said: Well that's their right if the server really violated ToS. How would an ip range ban be right for other games and servers affected ? this causes a big precedent Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dedmen 2714 Posted March 29, 2019 Just now, MaximumPower said: How would an ip range ban be right for other games Doesn't matter. tos violation is on steam level, what games doesn't matter. 1 minute ago, MaximumPower said: and servers If there are different servers affected that were not at all related to the tos violations then that would probably not be fine. Does Steam know that though? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MaximumPower 1 Posted March 29, 2019 1 minute ago, Dedmen said: Doesn't matter. tos violation is on steam level, what games doesn't matter. If there are different servers affected that were not at all related to the tos violations then that would probably not be fine. Does Steam know that though? Do you consider right that a blacklisted ip range from counter-strike example 192.168.1.33 affect blacklist a Arma 3 server too on 192.168.1.55 ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dedmen 2714 Posted March 29, 2019 1 minute ago, MaximumPower said: Do you consider right that a blacklisted ip range from counter-strike example 192.168.1.33 affect blacklist a Arma 3 server too on 192.168.1.55 ? No unless the servers all belong to the same owner who also commited the tos violation. Again, does steam know that? Has anyone informed them about that? If they don't know they are doing wrong, they probably won't fix it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MaximumPower 1 Posted April 1, 2019 Steam does not even offer support for this, i think they ban ip's classes for breaking some illegal mods for their counter-strike global offensive game thus affecting any other game servers on that ip range. http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamApps/GetServersAtAddress/v0001?addr=46.102.86.5&format=xml http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamApps/GetServersAtAddress/v0001?addr=46.102.86.5&format=json Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
