users of a Third Party program to idle in servers had hats taken away and were not given halos.
I'm sorry but according to the guy who made it it was within the terms of service. How do you not get this Valve admitted that they had no policy on it previously. If it was excluded in the ToS then that would count as a policy!
You're going to take a "guy who wrote a (
hack) program to circumvent logging onto TF2 in order to idle in game"'s word that said hack is not a violation of Valve's Terms of Service?
dohohoho. It's kind of like the crack dealer telling kids that it's just candy.
This is my last post on the matter. I'm not going to stay here and argue semantics on "policy", because it's probably true that Valve did not have a specific policy against "using a program to idle in order to unlock hats", but they do have a policy in the ToS that if they catch you using third party programs or circumventing the loader they can
cancel your account, no questions asked.
As such it's a light sentence that they've given out so far. Using a hack program and expecting nothing to happen is like saying, "I murdered this guy with a spoon, there's no specific law or policy against murdering people with spoons so therefore I'm innocent." When the truth is that murder is murder, just as using a hack/crack is still using a ToS specificied Third Party Program.
Now there's a defined policy and
trust me you'll get over it. It's e-peen cosmetic items in a game.
EDIT: I read the steam forums with hints that action was going to be taken against such actions. Valve may just be hardcore trolling their own fans.