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34.2 hrs last two weeks / 996.1 hrs on record (390.6 hrs at review time)
Posted: 14 Mar, 2017 @ 12:10pm
Updated: 1 Aug @ 9:24am

UPDATE: valve made the gaame awesome again for now

the game is good and still fun, but the bots that have been affecting the game for the last 5 years have made official casual matchmaking have a somewhat high chance of you joining into a server that is unplayable.

If you do join a server that is fine and has actual human beings as the players then both teams have to keep an eye on the chat for bots joining, sometimes its just one or two at a time but depending on the current player count 4+ or more bots could join in a single wave, disrupting the game for a large portion of the round while votes slowly go through (that's assuming both teams have enough people above 70 IQ to open the vote menu and start a vote kick, if they don't then it takes even longer because of vote cooldowns per person)


Community servers are still great and work fine if you can find a good server, but that's about it.

The fact that Valve continues to actively profit off of this game and acknowledge its existence by putting new seasonal lootboxes into the game a couple times a year instead while actively ignoring the community and the bot plague is downright disrespectful.

In my eyes Valve should either:

A: Announce end-of-life for TF2 and proceed to not give any updates at all (apart from security fixes if new dangerous exploits become uncovered)

or

B: Fix the bot problem or at least attempt to fix it past whatever they have already done (which clearly hasn't worked!)

Being in this weird state of not receiving any communication or updates about problems that have been plaguing the game for the last 5 years but also getting updates as long as it makes Valve more money is just odd.
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