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Team Fortress 2 Swarmed With Negative Reviews As Fans Call Out Valve

admin June 4, 2024

Highlights

Team Fortress 2 fans demand Valve address cheating issue in game, organizing mass protest and petition with 190,000+ signatures.
Recent negative reviews indicate fans review-bombing TF2 out of love for game, urging Valve to take action on cheating problem.
Despite Valve’s focus on new hero-shooter Deadlock, TF2 community continues push for fixes, highlighting game’s active player base.

Team Fortress 2 is being review-bombed by its community as fans label Valve’s popular shooter as “abandoned” and “unplayable.”

Earlier this month, the Team Fortress 2 community said “enough is enough” and planned a mass protest for June 3rd known as ‘FixTF2’. The plan was to get the term trending across all social media platforms and gain the attention of the game’s publisher and developer, Valve. While Team Fortress 2 is now 17 years old, it still has an incredibly active player base, averaging around 90,000 concurrent players a day, according to SteamDB.

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To spread the word, the community set up a website known as ‘save.tf‘, where fellow players can sign a petition that will be sent directly to Valve at a later date. At the time of writing this article, the FixTF2 petition has over 190,000 signatures and continues to climb with each passing minute.

So, what’s the issue, exactly? Well, according to the community, Team Fortress 2 has been riddled with cheaters using aimbot for the last 5 years, with Valve refusing to acknowledge or rectify the issue. “Team Fortress 2 has become nearly unplayable,” the petition states. “Despite being aware of the bot crisis, Valve has instead directed their focus towards other ventures, leaving TF2 with insufficient support in its grave time of need.”

Back in 2022, the official Team Fortress 2 X (formerly Twitter) account posted, “TF2 community, we hear you! We love this game and know you do, too. We see how large this issue has become and are working to improve things.” The account has not made a single post since and the game still remains riddled with cheaters.

Team Fortress 2 Players Want Valve To Address The Bot Problem

As Valve has made it perfectly clear to its community that it has no intention of fixing Team Fortress 2’s issues, players have been forced to take matters into their own hands. While the petition continues to grow, players are also review-bombing the game over on Steam.

While the game’s overall review score remains ‘very positive’, its recent review badge has now changed to ‘mostly negative’ with 30% of the 18,842 recent reviews being negative. Many of the game’s recent negative reviews ask Valve to fix Team Fortress 2, while some simply include the hashtag “SaveTF2.”

“I am joining in on the review bomb but not out of hate but out of love for this game. Please fix Team Fortress 2 and try to do something instead of tweeting about the problem and go back to doing nothing,” one of the thousand negative reviews reads.

Currently, Valve is rumoured to be hard at work on another hero-shooter known as Deadlock. So whether or not the studio will find time to fix Team Fortress 2’s cheating issues after all these years is unknown, but you’ve got to respect the community for its efforts.