{"id":1212888,"date":"2023-12-15T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212888"},"modified":"2023-12-15T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T18:30:00","slug":"steam-trolls-players-with-bans-wrapped-up-like-christmas-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212888","title":{"rendered":"Steam Trolls Players With Bans Wrapped Up Like Christmas Presents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/3c71544415711669e1c09bd2ec613881.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Video game companies have gotten very creative when it comes to punishing cheaters, from <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/call-of-duty-cod-warzone-anti-cheat-splat-mw3-1851011194\">cutting their parachutes\u2019 strings<\/a> in Call of Duty to <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/video-game-cheater-bans-grand-theft-auto-call-of-duty-1850396574\">blowing them up<\/a> in Grand Theft Auto Online. But Valve just set a new benchmark for trolling players: sending them permabans wrapped up like Christmas presents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/steam-dota-2-cheating-ban-valve-1851103392\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Kotaku &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/steam-dota-2-cheating-ban-valve-1851103392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam Trolls Players With Bans Wrapped Up Like Christmas Presents<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video game companies have gotten very creative when it comes to punishing cheaters, from cutting their parachutes\u2019 strings in Call of Duty to blowing them up in Grand Theft Auto Online. But Valve just set a new benchmark for trolling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212888\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,110],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-1212888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kotaku","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-kotaku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}