I wrote yesterday in regards to the #SaveTF2 motion’s newest marketing campaign, mobilizing as soon as once more to strain Valve into motion towards Workforce Fortress 2’s rampant bot downside. The newest operation is a two-pronged method: an on-line Petition—which has been signed and emailed to Valve over 200,000 occasions—and a public consciousness marketing campaign utilizing the #FixTF2 hashtag to point out simply how rotten with bots TF2 has change into. Nicely, the general public definitely appears conscious, and on Steam, that consciousness is taking a really public type:
TF2’s latest assessment score has plummeted to Largely Destructive due to a review-bombing surge that, judging from the graph, began hitting simply because the #FixTF2 marketing campaign spun up on June 3. The inflow of destructive critiques is so large—greater than 14,000 have hit within the final 24 hours—that it is warped the size of the chart, rendering any optimistic sentiment for the sport into barely noticeable blue nubs.
TF2’s general assessment historical past, there’s by no means been a window the place Gamers have left wherever close to this many destructive critiques. Should you gingerly mouse over the person months on the graph, you may discover that not even in 2022—when #SaveTF2 first emerged—was there a interval the place TF2 obtained even a tenth as many destructive critiques as Gamers have left during the last day.
I’d’ve assumed a wholesome variety of these critiques have been left by Gamers who noticed the #FixTF2 posts and needed to leap on the outrage bandwagon for amusing, even when they do not have a lot attachment to the sport. However from what I can see by looking latest critiques, the overwhelming majority are being left by folks with dozens of hours of playtime in TF2, if not tons of, and even 1000’s. Possibly I ought to’ve recognized higher. I imply, it is Workforce Fortress 2. It is mainly an establishment.
Valve hasn’t but responded to the newest wave of calls for for anti-bot measures. Funnily sufficient, the Workforce Fortress 2 official Twitter account hasn’t tweeted because it acknowledged the final widespread outcry in 2022. If nothing else, the review-bombing leaves a reasonably evident mark. Based mostly on what I can glean from Steam assessment graphs, Workforce Fortress 2 has a brand new declare to fame: It is the one Valve recreation to ever drop beneath a Blended score for latest critiques.
