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What happens if we get banned from a game on steam?
Is it best to mod on a steam game or stand aloan game
would i have to buy Gtav again if i got banned?

First off, I'll start with your last statement. How can I stick to a particular device, when I don't have one? If you have played on PC as long as you claimed, which I highly doubt because most people on this forum don't even know how fun Wolfenstein 3D was, much less Doom.

Secondly, Punkbusters isn't the only anti-cheat software. As I mentioned there were others like VAC, Warden, Fairfight, and Gameguard, just to name a few more. Saying that PB originated on CoD4 is probably the most idiotic thing I've read on the internet regarding anti-cheat. You also don't seem to understand how PB enforces their bans, like other anti-cheats it only applies to PB protected servers. Most people also seem to have issues understand GUID and hardware bans, along with their enforcement. You also seem to have a misunderstanding of what being banned entails, so I'll explain it in the simplest terms and I will use NextGenUpdate as an example.

You flame an admin, you subsequently receive a ban. You connect to the website, however you're prompted with a notification saying you're banned. Every site feature is restricted, but you can still connect. Just because you can connect doesn't mean you're not banned. The same can be applied to PB bans, just because you can connect momentarily before your ban is enforced, doesn't mean you're not banned.

I'll go ahead a touch base on private cheats. The developers who create private cheats for rent are having to constantly update their cheats to remain undetected. If no one was being banned for using them, why would a developer waste their time updating them? Outside the realm of functionality and features, they have no real need to update them, right? Obviously they're being detected, people are being banned for using them, and the developers go back to the drawing board to find ways to circumvent an update in cheat detection.

Lastly, depending on the anti-cheat you can edit models and do other visual mods without being banned. Most developers could careless if you do that. Unless your model change is intended to give you an advantage in a first person shooter, mainly Counter Strike. As of right now no one knows whether Rockstar is running anti-cheat, well at least client side. For all we know they could be running server sided anti-cheat. Regardless, most if not all anti-cheat actively scans memory, check for known cheat modules, modifications to game functions, API hooks, and even model edits. I highly recommend actually knowing what you're talking about before attempting to give a witty reply.

Last time I was on PC yes that was the case back in the 90s.
Right now it depends on the title with ban waves coming or studios being pro active in avoiding cheaters.



Punk Buster is 15 years old, was created for Team Fortress to counter cheats by some dude on his own.

Depends on the game but loads of systems being used to counter cheats which is why whole thing is underground.
Pay per month files get sent to you with dozens of updates per month like a github project.
Certain titles which are listen servers over a server you can avoid a ban but sooner or later going to catch up on you.

Long list of systems being used to counter cheats. Gone are the dark age of PC cheats now a major business with studios playing cat and mouse.

GTA runs two DRM systems steam and Rockstar social club. Both of these look for cheaters in some form.
Likely if Rockstar find you no more GTA online and if Valve find you no more GTA/anything.

like no more online intill we change ip address or buy game again ?

Depends on the ban. It could be GUID or hardware related, I've not heard of IP bans except in one instance on BF4 where admins were abusing certain features provided by NFO to ban certain players by restricting a certain port. Basically using the server ddos protection to indirectly ban players from official servers.

hardeware ban like they would ban something on my pc or router?
guid ban ill google that one

I wish I had the ability of getting a point or facts across with as few words as possible. Thank you for going into greater detail than I could, with like 75% less words lol.