That number gets reset no matter which way you get banned, (game banned or vac banned). Doesn't excuse cheating in anyway ofc, that vac ban could be years old, while those game bans could be more recent. Game developers can game ban you for whatever is against their TOS it doesn't explicitally have to be malicious.   Though having multiple does back if it was malicious, and not being able to remember why you had a game ban is wack, though i'd see why if developers can give you a game ban for whatever they deem "cheating".   I am personally gonna say -1 again; Maybe wait until your game ban is much older and avoid getting any more of them as well as staying out of trouble on Aether, and you'll probably have a good shot, just prove to everyone that you've changed.

VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) is a very loose and not good Anti-Cheat system. In order for a successful VAC ban to occur, you need to 100% be cheating to the point where even a 5 year old with no game knowledge can tell. If you can't quite remember why, maybe that should remind you. Your game bans mean that a developer of a game manually banned you for any given reason. The two most common reasons are either toxicity, or of course, cheating that's detected by a third party anti-cheat/manually reviewed by a member of the development team. If you can't own up to the fact that you were banned for what's likely cheating, within the past year, I do not want you to be staff. My -1 has been reinforced.

Would like to say that vac ban was from a few years ago last game ban I cant quite remember why

Thanks for the report this player has been banned for "Excessive Hatespeech"

+1 that'll do.