TF2, according to steam charts, is the third most played game on steam. It’s been overrun by bots for years now, and recently a petition started that’ll be physically printed and delivered to valve HQ. If you care about TF2, or if you can spare some time, please sign the petition
The bots also spew homophobic, racist, bigoted remarks so by signing this petition you stand against the slander!
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I'll be honest, we've tried so many times to save tf2 and the most we've gotten is valve logging in to their TF2 Twitter. The hell is signing a petition and mailing it to their office gonna do?
Despite the bots the player count is very high and stable. People are still buying keys and items regardless. Plus making games simply isn't valves business anymore, they're a games store and a hardware manufacturer, not a studio. Whether tf2 lives or dies doesn't matter to them, it's negligible relative to valve.
I love the game, it's probably my favorite ever but I'm also a realist. It pains me to say but I don't think this is gonna go anywhere.
Valve is literally developing a new game right now called Deadlock
We tried once before, and it was a poorly thought out mess with no clear goal. This time, everything is much more organised and we know what our demands are
All we ask is for a solution to the bots. In other words, something we shouldn't even need to ask valve to do
It's the same thing with different presentation, I highly doubt Valve is not aware of it, quite the opposite.
It's something that requires a lot of technical prowess to fix (especially to not disappoint the community now). I don't blame Valve employees with not wanting to work with it, especially with TF2 code probably counting as legacy nowadays.
In all fairness, Linux got 64 bit and Vulkan so maybe there's still some people interested but their damage control for bot chat spam (read, disabling chat for free to play) got flamed so that's not confidence inspiring.
when we tried with savetf2 they did fix some things and there were less bots for some time. the reason we're doing it again is so that everyone (even people who know nothing about tf2) knows that the game still needs fixing.
valve does still make games. do you not know about half life alyx and counter strike 2?!?!? they dont make them as much as they used to, but they still do it. also, they dont have to do much themselves. nothing's stopping them from hiring people from other studios to work on tf2.
Alyx was 4 years ago and mostly made to sell the steamvr platform, CS2 makes tons of money, I guess valve just doesn't think its worth it to work more on TF2.