On March 13th, 2022, IGN, prompted by multiple email suggestions, published an article about the Team Fortress 2 bot problem.
They already do nothing, they can't do any less, so we might as well try.įollowing the release of the video, SquimJim posted a mailing list containing work emails of multiple Valve employees and gaming news websites to his Discord server SquimJim's After Breakfast Club. But what happens if they start receiving hundreds or even thousands of similar emails? And at this point, what do we have to lose. Is email going to make a difference? Absolutely not. The video gained over 190,000 views in three weeks (shown below). On May 7th, 2022, Team Fortress 2 YouTuber SquimJim posted a video in which he expressed his frustration with Valve letting the issue persist and proposed to organize and send multiple emails to Valve employees and to gaming news websites in hopes of drawing Valve's attention and getting a response. Sure, there are a couple of absolutely legendary devs continuing to work on the game, but in general, the 12 billion dollar company, which probably has it within its capacity to put a stop to this, clearly doesn't care. Why does Valve not do anything about this? If there is one thing that we know for certain from all this chaos is that Valve doesn't care. On March 11th, 2022, Toofty posted another video about the bot problem, criticizing Valve over its purported unwillingness to fix the problem despite the game maintaining a sizable fanbase (shown below, right). The bot problem persisted in 20, with multiple content creators highlighting the issue in their videos (example shown below, left). On January 10th and February 7th, 2020, YouTuber Toofty posted two videos about the infestation, both of which gained over 1 million views (shown below, left and right).
The bots would join official Valve servers, copy other player's names so it would create confusion and make it harder for them to be kicked, spam slurs and ruin the gaming experience for players in other ways. In late 2019, the multiplayer video game Team Fortress 2 experienced a massive infestation of bots, mostly playing as Sniper class with perfect aim.
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