In a bit of an odd, yet understandable, due to certain circumstances, move Valve has changed the way that VAC bans work for gifted games. Something that could bite a couple of streamers has been written into the updated TOS for Steam, but it’s main force is to deal with people who use an alternate account to buy and then gift themselves a game they wish to cheat with. If you gift someone a game that has VAC on it, and the person then gets caught cheating, you will no longer be able to gift that game to anyone ever again. No matter what.

Now, I am aware of a lot of legitimate use for the gifting system, but the problem is that a select few are cheating and using an alternate account to buy up copies of games like CS: GO and are then cheating, getting banned, and then just re-gifting it to themselves from their alternate account and carrying on playing until they are banned again. This is a case, as was said by my old Biology teacher “the smallest of minorities causing problems for the majority” and in this case, it could cause some legitimate issues.