Players fear their favorite shooter on Steam will be killed by nasty bots – now everyone is waiting for Valve
Team Fortress 2 (2007, PC, PS3, Xbox 360) is an older game but has held up well on the Steam charts for years. Unfortunately, bots take the fun out of many players. They are now calling for help: Valve should do it right.
What kind of game is this? Team Fortress 2 is a classic team shooter that was originally released in 2007. And although the comic-style shooter is understandably a bit dusty after almost 15 years of existence, it has remained remarkably constant in the Steam charts.
If you look at the current overview (via Steam Charts), Team Fortress 2 is listed as the 13th most played game on Steam right now – between Path of Exile and Warframe. An average of 71,365 players in the last 30 days are listed there – and the number looked similar in the past few months.
But there is a problem: Some of this player base is probably made up of bots – to an extent that takes the fun out of many real players.
A difficulty that fans of the game have not only recently had to contend with.
So the problem itself has been dragging on for some time. Now players started another wave to draw Valve’s attention to the bots.
Fans advertise for attention, want to get rid of the bots
What fans say: In many places you can find players trying to address the bot problem again. This starts in the Steam reviews, for example: 93% of Team Fortress 2 is advertised positively there, it is a popular game.
The downer remains the bots: If you look at the negative ratings, these are the main criticism of the game (via Steam). “Good game, but treated terribly by Valve,” says one user, “It used to be a great game, but now it’s full of bots,” criticizes another.
The YouTuber “SquimJim” also addressed the problem in a video.
There he criticizes that the bot problem has been up to mischief in TF2 for 2 years now. He asks that developer Valve take a closer look at it – you get security improvements, but they wouldn’t do anything.
As a result, players tried to draw attention to TF2 again. For example, they reached voice actor Robin Atkin Downes, who worked on the game.
He got back to the community and said that while he worked on the game as a voice actor, he’s not employed by Valve. But he wanted to help and try to establish contact with the developer.
Even the official Twitter account for Payday 2, a completely different game, briefly reported on the subject:
In addition, international gaming portals such as IGN or Kotaku report that as a result of the video, they received numerous emails from fans insisting that they want their game back. They hope to draw attention to the problem again.
Valve, i.e. the developer, has not yet responded to the issue. In view of the age of the shooter, whether this will be improved again is open, at least for the current status.
Team Fortress 2 isn’t the only game that has to deal with bots. Another recent example was Lost Ark. The MMO has had bot issues since it was released – you can read more about that here.
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