Team Fortress 2 Steam Reviews Drop to ‘Mostly Negative’ as Players Plead With Valve to Do Something About Bots
The Team Fortress 2 community has come together in an attempt to brute force developer Valve into fixing a bot problem that has plagued the hero shooter for years.
Disgruntled players of the near 17-year-old shooter, which remains one of the most-played games on Steam, have taken to user reviews to let their feelings be known about bots. This review campaign has caused Team Fortress 2’s recent reviews user rating to plummet to ‘mostly negative’, with pretty much all the comments complaining about bots.
“It's time Valve does something about the bots,” reads one review from a user with over 630 hours on Team Fortress 2. “The game has been overrun with people willing to doxx, DDOS, and SWAT anyone who takes action against the problem.”
“The current state of this game is borderline unplayable,” reads another review from a user with over 950 hours. “It is CRIMINAL that Valve has done nothing against this issue, and have continued to profit off of this game.”
“Valve, you've got a gem of a game here that has left a mark on the internet culture for longer than I can remember,” reads another review, this time from a user with over 700 hours of game time. “We're tired of bots running rampant across the casual matchmaking. We want you to step in, we don't want another update, we don't want any cosmetics, we want you to #FixTF2.”
Team Fortress 2 is one of the oldest actively supported video games on the market, and remains popular enough to place within the top 10 games on Steam based on concurrent player numbers. However, some players have said this active player count is misleading, with cheater bots filling servers instead. Idle bots, meanwhile, farm Team Fortress 2 for free item drops. Some believe Team Fortress 2 has tens of thousands of bots idling in private servers, contributing towards the impressive player count on Steam.
Frustrating the Team Fortress 2 player base further is the apparent silence from Valve over the issue. The company continues to support the game with
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