Highlights
- Group Fortress 2 followers demand Valve tackle dishonest concern in recreation, organizing mass protest and petition with 190,000+ signatures.
- Latest damaging critiques point out followers review-bombing TF2 out of affection for recreation, urging Valve to take motion on dishonest drawback.
- Regardless of Valve’s give attention to new hero-shooter Impasse, TF2 neighborhood continues push for fixes, highlighting recreation’s energetic participant base.
Group Fortress 2 is being review-bombed by its neighborhood as followers label Valve’s widespread shooter as “deserted” and “unplayable.”
Earlier this month, the Group 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 Group 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.
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To unfold the phrase, the neighborhood arrange a web site referred to as ‘save.tf’, the place fellow gamers can signal a petition that will likely 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 concern, precisely? Effectively, in keeping with the neighborhood, Group Fortress 2 has been riddled with cheaters utilizing aimbot for the final 5 years, with Valve refusing to acknowledge or rectify the difficulty. “Group Fortress 2 has change into practically unplayable,” the petition states. “Regardless of being conscious of the bot disaster, Valve has as a substitute directed their focus in the direction of different ventures, leaving TF2 with inadequate assist in its grave time of want.”
Again in 2022, the official Group Fortress 2 X (previously Twitter) account posted, “TF2 neighborhood, we hear you! We love this recreation and know you do, too. We see how giant this concern has change into and are working to enhance issues.” The account has not made a single publish since and the sport nonetheless stays riddled with cheaters.
Group Fortress 2 Gamers Need Valve To Tackle The Bot Drawback
As Valve has made it completely clear to its neighborhood that it has no intention of fixing Group Fortress 2’s points, gamers have been compelled 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 evaluate rating stays ‘very constructive’, its latest evaluate badge has now modified to ‘largely damaging’ with 30% of the 18,842 latest critiques being damaging. Lots of the recreation’s latest damaging critiques ask Valve to repair Group Fortress 2, whereas some merely embody the hashtag “SaveTF2.”
“I’m becoming a member of in on the evaluate bomb however not out of hate however out of affection for this recreation. Please repair Group Fortress 2 and attempt to do one thing as a substitute of tweeting about the issue and return to doing nothing,” one of many thousand damaging critiques reads.
Presently, Valve is rumoured to be laborious at work on one other hero-shooter referred to as Impasse. So whether or not or not the studio will discover time to repair Group Fortress 2’s dishonest points in any case these years is unknown, however you have to respect the neighborhood for its efforts.
Group Fortress 2
- Launched
- October 10, 2007
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