Top game on Steam has been silent on its fans for almost 2 years – until they beg loudly for help
The fans of the Steam shooter Team Fortress 2 have had enough: Too many bots and no solutions provoked a big protest. Now there is actually a reaction.
The shooter Team Fortress 2, which was released in 2007, has held up well in the Steam charts for years despite its age. Even now he is in 10th place, with about 79,644 players (via Steam Charts; As of May 28 at 1:30 p.m.).
This places Team Fortress 2 just below the new survival hit V Rising, but just ahead of Naraka Bladepoint and Elden Ring.
That’s the problem: Unfortunately, not only real people play the game, but also numerous bots. And it is precisely these bots that make it difficult for the passionate Team Fortress 2 fans to still enjoy the game.
This problem has been going on for years, but no satisfactory solutions have been found in the form of updates.
That’s why the community started a large-scale call for help towards the developer Valve, to which even other games like Payday 2 or the voice actor involved in the game Robin Atkin Downes responded. The hashtag #SaveTF2 made the rounds and fans on numerous platforms asked: Please save our game.
Nothing came from Valve or the TF2 team itself – until now.
The first tweet in almost 2 years is aimed at those seeking help
This is what TF2 says: The official Team Fortress 2 Twitter account tweeted about the current bot situation:
They write: “TF2 Community, we hear you! We love this game and we know you do too. We see how big this problem has gotten and are working to improve things.”
First of all, there is not too much in it. Nevertheless, the tweet is something special. Because even those who follow the official TF2 account on Twitter will not have heard from it for a long time: The last retweet of the account is dated October 3rd, 2020, the last own post even from July 18th, 2020.
So the account has been silent for almost 2 years – until now. So it’s no wonder that the tweet literally exploded with over 11,000 comments, more than 55,000 retweets and over 200,000 likes.
How players react: Looking at the comments and the TF2 subreddit, there are basically two reactions.
- On the one hand, fans are happy to finally hear something from an official body on the subject. The tweet raises hopes that the situation is now improving and a solution to the bot problems may be found.
- On the other hand, there is still skepticism that nothing will happen after the tweet.
The coming weeks and months will show how the situation will develop.
Other games also sometimes have problems due to bots. One such game is the MMORPG Lost Ark, which itself struggles with bots. In mid-May, Lost Ark presented a plan to solve this and banned numerous bot accounts.
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