Over 200k Team Fortress 2 Fans Want Valve To Fix The Game

Valve’s free classroom shooter, Team Fortress 2, is over 16 years old and yet continues to be one of the most played games on Steam. However, TF2The large fanbase is fed up with Valve’s inability or refusal to fix the game’s bot issues and has launched a new large-scale campaign to pressure the developer to do something.

For years now, Team Fortress 2— originally published October 2007 —had a serious robot problem. We reported racist spambots in 2020 who filled TF2‘s chats with horrible messages. SO, in 2022we reported again TF2Persistent bot issues. This time around, bots were filling the servers and using their AI skills to destroy human players, making the game nearly impossible to play, according to many longtime experts. TF2 Fans. Players have sent thousands of emails to Valve and outlets like Kotaku And IGN, try to draw attention to the issue. And it worked ! Valve, the company behind Steam and Half-life, acknowledged the problem with the robot and said it was working to resolve the issues. That was about two years ago and uh… well, the robots are still there and still make the game difficult to play.

Fans want Valve to save Team Fortress 2

On June 3, a new fan campaign started. And like last time, players are trying to convince Valve to step in and do something about all the annoying bots. This time, the ““Fix TF2” campaign requests player signatures, which will be forwarded to Valve in the future. So far, the site has collected over 210,000 signatures and the number continues to grow.

“We cannot take it lightly, Team Fortress 2 is in an unacceptable state, and Valve’s apathy in the face of this issue is simply appalling,” states a message on the “Fix TF2” website.

The campaign’s mission statement calls for Valve to implement updated anti-cheating measures for seniors. TF2, which still makes money every year from microtransactions. Fans also want an open line of communication with Valve about the state of the game and the bot issue.

As someone who spent years emailing Valve for feedback and responses as part of my job and received very few responses, I wish you all the best of luck in getting them to communicate more. Talking about that, Kotaku contacted Valve about TF2the robots.

To get Valve’s attention, the website asks fans to share stories, screenshots, and snippets of bots in TF2 on social networks. He also asks fans to share the campaign website as well. Nowhere on the site are fans asked to criticize the bomb TF2, but this is also happening right nowprobably due to angry gamers wanting to get Valve to do something.

Valve has not yet officially responded to the campaign as of June 4, 2024. The official TF2 The last tweet from the Twitter account was… last time Valve responded to fans complaining about robots in 2022. So we’ll see if TF2The second tweet in almost two years is another promise that fixes are coming. Last time it managed to calm the fans down. This time…I’m not sure.

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