#FIXTF2 - The Bots Must Go
Valve (company behind Steam) needs to fix the bots that are infesting Team Fortress 2.
I love this game. I don't think I've loved any other game as much as I do this one. As of now, I have 1100 hours in TF2, and I'm still just getting started. It's immensely replayable, and there's always something to get better at, like how to aim, when to take a fight, how to dodge and trick your opponent. It's satisfying to play whether you win or lose an encounter. It's just, simply put, a very fun game to play. But there are some bad actors who just want to ruin the game for everyone else...
This is an ongoing issue for five years now. Since I joined in 2022, they have always been a persistent problem, and grown more numerous after a certain prominent community member took actions to target these cheaters.
These are aimbots run by bot hosters who run copies of the game on their own hardware, join games as the sniper class, and use hacks that can instakill anyone within their line of sight. They join games en masse and render the game unplayable for either side by instakilling you, and can vote to kick real players out of the lobby.
These bots also use the voice chat system to spam hateful speech with no consequences, because Valve won't do anything. They use the chat function to doxx people who fight against them, spam links to direct hate to innocent people, and to sell "bot immunity" to acquire funds to continue this scheme.
Why does Valve need to fix it?
Valve is profiting off this as these bot hosters have to pay for a premium account to use the chat function. Valve continues to neglect this game that they profit off of every Summer, Halloween, or Christmas update, through giving us crates, a form of microtransaction, to open. Not to mention, the items dropped from these crates aren't even made by Valve, but from the community creators who play their broken game. Valve is using the work of TF2's dedicated fanbase wring out more money, while abandoning said game in a state of disrepair.
Go to the link below to learn more and sign the petition to let Valve know how many people care! The organisers of this campaign plan to print out all the signatures and deliver it straight to Valve HQ!
You can also make posts with #fixtf2 or #savetf2 and interact with these posts to spread the word.
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