Valve has responded to Team Fortress 2’s growing community movement in protecting the game’s massive bottom problem, assuring players that it is “working on improving things.”
In a tweet today from the official Team Fortress 2 account, Valve said “TF2 community, we hear you! We love this game and we know you do too. We are seeing the extent of this problem and we are working to improve things.” It’s the first Tweet from the account since July 2020 (not counting a single retweet for an official Valve Tweet from October 2020).
TF2 community, we hear you! We love this game and we know you do too. We are seeing the extent of this issue and are working to improve things.
Team Fortress 2 26 May 2022
This comes in response to the hashtag #SaveTF2, which has been embraced by the Team Fortress 2 community in the past few days to draw attention to the massive mobilization problem that has been going on in the game since 2020. The hashtag has been adopted by a large number of Team Fortress 2 streamers and is of thedescribed as a “peaceful” protest About the state of the game. The bot invasion has caused Team Fortress 2’s unofficial servers to be overrun with spam, flawless snipers, and bots that can disrupt entire games or stage coordinated kicks for human players. Previously, community leaders organized an email campaign to reach out to Valve and the media to highlight the issue.
While the individuals using the hashtag #SaveTF2 may have had different motives, the group was largely hoping for some level of recognition from Valve, ideally coupled with a fix. Others hope that the renewed interest in Team Fortress 2 will lead to the game getting regular updates once more since the large community is clearly still interested. Although over a decade has passed, Team Fortress 2 remains incredibly popular and has consistently averaged between 70,000 and 90,000 concurrent players each month over the past year.
At the moment it’s not clear what improvements Valve has up their sleeve, but hopefully they can get Team Fortress 2 into a more stable state.
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