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[Draugoth]

Team Fortress 2 has been review-bombed on Steam by the game's community and now has over 100,000+ negative reviews on the platform. This makes the nearly two decades old shooter the first Valve title to receive an ''overwhelmingly negative'' score on its own platform.


The game is one of the most played on Steam even 17 years after its release. But, it has been plagued with a ''bot problem'' for quite some time now which makes it completely unplayable according to some players. Cheating aimbots have become increasingly common in the TF2 game servers with no means to stop them, ruining the experience for the majority of genuine players. The fact that the issue has become so severe has compelled the Tf2 community to take action.

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The past four days have brought in over 25,000 negative reviews on Steam, the majority of which are from users with hundreds of hours in the game berating Valve and urging them to fix the game's bot problem. According to one recent reviewer who has over 600 hours on TF2, the game has been ''overrun with people willing to doxx, DDOS, and SWAT anyone who takes action against the problem''.

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[Robot Carnival]

that's sad to see as someone who used to play TF2 since it came out on the Orange Box. I imagine they'll either have to overhaul everything under the hood to fix all the issues with bots and dox/DDOS. do they have the incentive/devs willing to do that thou, that's a different problem.

 

[Skifi28]

I feel a game being review bombed on steam these days is the norm and we should only reserve threads about those that aren't.

 

[Demigod Mac]

The recent 64-bit update was a nice performance boost, but yeah. You never know if/when bots will descend into your game and ruin the match for everyone.

 

[Pigenator]

Maybe it's time to move on from a 17 year old game instead of being outraged but that's just me

 

[TintoConCasera]

Maybe it's time to move on from a 17 year old game instead of being outraged but that's just me

Maybe people have put money into that 17 year old game and would rather keep enjoying it than moving on?

 

[KaiserBecks]

I loved vanilla TF2. Bots? Hats were the beginning of the end.

 

[crackajack]

I am not much of a mp player, but loved this. I stopped playing before it became f2p, and I think they added too much cosmetics garbage to it then, but that's less problematic than what they seem to face now. Without doing much game development anyway, keeping your insanely long popular games healthy should be top priority.

 

[squidilix]

Good, valve leave TF2 dying

 

[nikos]

Karma for review bombing Overwatch 2 when it launched on Steam because "TF2 bEtTeR."

 

[Gaiff]

Karma for review bombing Overwatch 2 when it launched on Steam because "TF2 bEtTeR."

Did you think before typing this?

 

[Hudo]

Don't worry, TF2 players! Valve got just the right shit for you: Deadlock!

/s.

 

[mayham2199]

lol at PC players complaining about bots. Part of the reason I can't stand PC gaming and don't want shit to do with cross play is because it's filled with hackers. At first I told myself who cares it's not like I'm going pro but eventually it becomes so blatant and in your face it just ruins the experience of casual online PVP. Even other games without PVP are filled with bots farming gold and just ruins the whole community feel of MP games.

Now Valve has their 17 year old game review bombed because they most likely got tired of trying to keep up with the shit community that exist on PC.

 

[Astray]

lol at PC players complaining about bots. Part of the reason I can't stand PC gaming and don't want shit to do with cross play is because it's filled with hackers. At first I told myself who cares it's not like I'm going pro but eventually it becomes so blatant and in your face it just ruins the experience of casual online PVP. Even other games without PVP are filled with bots farming gold and just ruins the whole community feel of MP games.

Now Valve has their 17 year old game review bombed because they most likely got tired of trying to keep up with the shit community that exist on PC.

My wife's nephew visited us today and asked me if the USB device that's plugged into my pc is an aim bot (it was the 2.4 dongle for my Nacon Revolution 5).

He's 10 years old. Tells it all imo.

 

[tkscz]

Don't worry, TF2 players! Valve got just the right shit for you: Deadlock!

/s.

I know you're joking but I wouldn't be surprised if this was the reason Valve isn't doing anything about the bots.

Maybe it's time to move on from a 17 year old game instead of being outraged but that's just me

Ah yes, people should just stop having fun with a game that was getting support for over 15 years then suddenly it ended.

 

[Hudo]

I know you're joking but I wouldn't be surprised if this was the reason Valve isn't doing anything about the bots.


Ah yes, people should just stop having fun with a game that was getting support for over 15 years then suddenly it ended.

Yeah, I was actually half-joking. I bet you're right on the money and Valve are actually quietly sunsetting TF2 for good and try to market Deadlock as the replacement in a way.

 

[Shin-Ra]

Genuine, fair, competitive play in open online multiplayer is an illusion.

Either you play private games with trustworthy people or even better you play LAN games.

Private/LAN-only games don’t have the population to keep GaaS running so publishers pretend their games are competitive.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Seems Valve began doing some serious cleanup

 

[touchfuzzy]

What's the end-game for someone making cheating aimbots in an old online shooter anyway? Like, there must be something for them to get out of it, right? Is this like Counterstrike where you can sell the skins afterwards on the store or whatever?

 

[Demigod Mac]

Getting Godfather vibes from this recent frenzy of anti-bot actions from Valve. Hopefully they keep it up.

 

[poppabk]

Man that is going to really tank sales.

 

[Musashipan]

Is it really bot free?

 

[Holammer]

Interesting... Good peak concurrent for TF2 after the cleanup, 113k users, increased by 40k'ish.

https://steamdb.info/app/440/charts/

First video I saw reporting on the banwave. The 16k number is a guess because it happened when Valve serves ran the regular weekly maintenance.

 

[Alexios]

Erm, Overwhelmingly Negative is just the recent reviews portion, a tiny fraction of all reviews where it's still Very Positive (85% recommended).