‘Enough is enough’: Over 200,000 Team Fortress 2 players sign #FixTF2 petition for Valve to end ‘Bot Crisis’ as Steam reviews drop to ‘Mostly Negative’ [UPDATED]

Over 200,000 players have now signed the petition for Valve to address the Bot Crisis. Additionally, players have started reviewing Team Fortress 2 bombing on Steam, dropping the game’s recent Reviews score to “Mostly Negative”.

What you need to know

  • Team Fortress 2 (TF2), Valve’s 2007 class-based shooter that’s still wildly popular today, has been plagued with a “Bot Crisis” for five years.
  • Worlds equipped with aimbot cheats have been flooding TF2’s random matchmaking servers for years, instantly killing other players with headshots, kicking them out of games, and spamming text and voice chat inside the game.
  • The people who host these bots have even programmed them to leak personal information in some cases, and one TF2 content creator says the culprits even went so far as to “detect” them by making fake emergency calls to the police in order to for officers to search their home.
  • In response to Valve’s radio silence on the matter, players have organized a #FixTF2 movement and created a petition for the developer that has over 150,000 signatures. Below you will find a link where you can sign it.
  • Update: The petition now has over 200,000 signatures. Additionally, players have started reviewing Team Fortress 2 bomb, with the game’s latest Steam Reviews score now “Mostly Negative”.

Original article: Valve’s 2007 free-to-play shooter Team Fortress 2 (TF2) stands as one of the most popular multiplayer games, as well as one of the best PC games ever made, but for five whole years now, it’s crippled by what fans call the “Crisis of the Worlds” – an endless horde of fake players equipped with aimbot gimmicks. These bots often outmatch matches in TF2 random matches by appearing as the Sniper class and instantly killing anyone they come across with headshots, while also taking advantage of their numbers and Steam’s renaming system to counter them voting by human players.

Since the bot crisis began in late 2019, Valve has only commented on the issue once in 2022, promising it was “working to make things better” after the game’s community got a #SaveTF2 hashtag trending. The problem then improved considerably for a time, but soon returned to become as severe as before, if not worse. This is the state the game remains in today, with the culprits now also programming their bots to spam TF2’s in-game text and voice chat, impersonate other players, and even extract personal information of individuals critical of the actions theirs (this video goes into more detail about this). One TF2 content creator even says the bot hosts went so far as to “detect” them, or make a fake emergency call to law enforcement so that officers would be sent to their home. .

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