Valve is letting developers permanently ban players on Steam

Things like lag and trolls can certainly take away from an online gaming experience, but there’s one thing that tops them both in terms of ruining a game: cheaters. Dealing with these cheaters is generally left to whichever company controls the platform you’re playing on, such as Xbox Live or Steam, but now Valve has decided to take a slightly different approach by allowing the game developers themselves to ban players for cheating.