For years, Team Fortress 2 fans have been dealing with a massive bot problem, and Valve may finally be doing something about it.
Since about 2020, bots have been flooding Team Fortress 2 with all sorts of nasty nonsense. Chat logs overflow with hateful messages, auto-aim brings matches to a standstill, and entire servers go offline. It’s an utter nightmare for fans.
The Team Fortress 2 community has been begging Valve to address the problem in recent months, specifically with the #SaveTF2 initiative. At long last, there was a response.
“Team Fortress 2 community, we hear you! We love this game and know you do, too,” Valve said on Twitter. “We see how large this issue has become and are working to improve things.”
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Hopefully, Valve follows through on this. The company has a reputation for not communicating well with fans on things like this. Frankly, Team Fortress 2 is an all-timer and deserves better than what’s happening. Far too many hours of my teen years were moving the payload and making dispensers.
Despite being more than ten years old, Team Fortress 2 is still popular. According to Steamcharts, over 80,000 players log in daily. Granted, lots of those are bots right now, but that’ll change soon. Fingers crossed, anyway.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
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