"It's sad to see them just rot": Ludwig shares his take on the issue with Valve's Team Fortress 2

sportskeeda.com:

Ludwig, one of the biggest names on YouTube, recently sat down to chat about Team Fortress 2 and how Valve is letting one of their most popular creations die out. This came about as a result of the #savetf2 trend on Twitter. Many fans of the series have come out to show their love for the franchise, hoping to see it improve. The game is currently being overrun by cheaters and bots, ruining the fun.

At first, Ludwig just complained about the time he spends on Twitter, but then switched it up, talking about the hashtag savetf2, which is growing in popularity on the platform. The trend on Twitter was focused on getting attention to the game, in the hopes Valve will fix some of its problems.

Ludwig was not surprised by the information because he is a former Smash Bros. Melee fan, which has way fewer active fans than Team Fortress 2.

Back in 2020, there were roughly 80,000 people playing TF2 everyday, according to an article Ludwig was reading. Even back then, there was a problem with bots plaguing games, and Valve at the time was doing nothing about it.

The same year the source code leaked was the same year the bots started showing up. Even to this day, bots are ruining the game.

Ludwig shared a video from YouTuber OrangeGlazer, who highlighted the problem in about a minute. He discussed the bot issue in detail, and though Valve has known about it for years, they have done nothing about it.

The streamer is all too familiar with cheaters in online games, but he was blown away that people were just creating bots to cheat with, instead of playing the game and cheating as themselves.

People just want the game to be playable, and the YouTuber definitely understands that. He watched another video about how the DOTA 2 fanbase complained