Staff Fortress 2 is being review-bombed by its neighborhood as followers label Valve’s in style shooter as “deserted” and “unplayable.”
Earlier this month, the Staff Fortress 2 neighborhood mentioned “sufficient is sufficient” and deliberate a mass protest for June third referred to as ‘FixTF2’. The plan was to get the time period trending throughout all social media platforms and achieve the eye of the sport’s writer and developer, Valve. Whereas Staff Fortress 2 is now 17 years previous, it nonetheless has an extremely energetic participant base, averaging round 90,000 concurrent gamers a day, in keeping with SteamDB.
To unfold the phrase, the neighborhood arrange a web site referred to as ‘save.tf’, the place fellow gamers can signal a petition that shall be despatched on to Valve at a later date. On the time of writing this text, the FixTF2 petition has over 190,000 signatures and continues to climb with every passing minute.
So, what is the challenge, precisely? Properly, in keeping with the neighborhood, Staff Fortress 2 has been riddled with cheaters utilizing aimbot for the final 5 years, with Valve refusing to acknowledge or rectify the problem. “Staff Fortress 2 has change into practically unplayable,” the petition states. “Regardless of being conscious of the bot disaster, Valve has as an alternative directed their focus in the direction of different ventures, leaving TF2 with inadequate help in its grave time of want.”
Again in 2022, the official Staff Fortress 2 X (previously Twitter) account posted, “TF2 neighborhood, we hear you! We love this sport and know you do, too. We see how giant this challenge has change into and are working to enhance issues.” The account has not made a single put up since and the sport nonetheless stays riddled with cheaters.
Staff Fortress 2 Gamers Need Valve To Deal with The Bot Downside
As Valve has made it completely clear to its neighborhood that it has no intention of fixing Staff Fortress 2’s points, gamers have been pressured to take issues into their very own fingers. Whereas the petition continues to develop, gamers are additionally review-bombing the sport over on Steam.
Whereas the sport’s total assessment rating stays ‘very constructive’, its latest assessment badge has now modified to ‘principally detrimental’ with 30% of the 18,842 latest evaluations being detrimental. Most of the sport’s latest detrimental evaluations ask Valve to repair Staff Fortress 2, whereas some merely embody the hashtag “SaveTF2.”
“I’m becoming a member of in on the assessment bomb however not out of hate however out of affection for this sport. Please repair Staff Fortress 2 and attempt to do one thing as an alternative of tweeting about the issue and return to doing nothing,” one of many thousand detrimental evaluations reads.
At the moment, Valve is rumoured to be arduous at work on one other hero-shooter referred to as Impasse. So whether or not or not the studio will discover time to repair Staff Fortress 2’s dishonest points in any case these years is unknown, however you have to respect the neighborhood for its efforts.
