Mr.Shiface

Ok, I've got a chance to check this up and it seems as though the case is closed! My son got a VAC ban for DayZ. Some games on Steam platform puts a VAC-ban on the Steam-account and some games (like DayZ puts a VAC-ban that is game related). According to Steams homepage they never undo a VAC-ban so I Thinks its pretty useless to try even though I am Confident that my son did not use any scripts or hacks. I am rather sure that the VAC-ban is because of him using the early dupe-glitches because I know he duped alot of gear in to the game and the VAC-ban seem to have appeared in relation to that update and character wipes that was made earlier. I am not sure that thats the correct reason of course but thats the only crime he commited. Whether I Think it's correct or not to set VAC-ban for kids that uses a game glitch is a completely other issue. I am going to send a mail to Steam support and explain my case for them and hope for the best but without any expectations. If nothing happens he will have to re-buy the game for his own money and hopefully a lesson is learned! Thank you all for clever and good replies to my thread, keep the good gaming spirit up ;)

Yeah, I think I will try to after I checked the VAC-thing that was mentioned above. Even though I do not know how to contact them but I'll figure something out I guess ;) The firewall should not be an issue as I have tried to disable it without any changes. We are on the same LAN connected using CAT 6 cables and obviously the same router to :) I know that my ISP connection causes packet loss over the limit of what one might expect but it still works for me. Anyway, thanks for your reply on this issue :)

Hi and thanks for your answer. I was not aware of anything called VAC on Steam but now I read all about it. I will check this later when im back home (currently at work :) ). You might be on to something here. I am not a cheater but I know that my son was globally banned from DayZ mod (Arma II) after having his CD-key stolen (I was next beside him when it happened and I can confirm he did not hack) and BattleEye support later confirmed that his key was used for hacking) so maybe that could have affected the Steam VAC-system to? Thanks for the tip, I'll let you know the progress on this lead.

Yes brazorf, I have purchased the game twice though. One time for me on my Steam account and one time for my son on another Steam account. I payed twice :)

Hi MrAkenatom, Thanks for your quick reply and your effort in my problem here :) I have now tried my sons steam-account om my PC (a PC he have never used before with his Steam account) and the result was the same: "Session lost" It seem to only confirm my previous apprehention that there is something wrong with the key itself :/ Do you have another idea?

Hello community, I have tried for so long to make this work but now, I need your help. I have two DayZ accounts, one for me and one for my son. We bought the game early when the pre-alpha was released. However my sons account seem to have failed completely somehow since he always gets the error message "Session lost" everytime he tries to connect to a server. I have tried to verify the file integrity, I tried to remove and re-install the game and nothing worked. However ,I did get it to work eventually on his client (computer) by logging in with my Steam account and thereby using my credentials. So I am thinking that it must have something to do with his CD-key I bought on Steam. He have had this problem for a long time now and I spent hours in trying to fix it somehow but now I'm getting quite frustrated. Have anyone had the same problem or know what to do and whom to contact about this problem? Could someone please help me? I dont want to purchase the game again just to get a new CD-key, it doesn't seem fair :(