Team Fortress 2 gamers have gotten artistic within the combat towards the shooter’s rampant bot drawback by turning a 340,000 signature sturdy petition into an precise e book and delivering it to Valve headquarters.
PC Gamer reported on the publish from @thewhat89 on X/Twitter, which unveiled the hardback e book in a elaborate promotional video.
“340,000 plus names all compiled into one e book,” the publish stated. “It is a image of the astounding quantity of folks that love TF2 and need to see it flourish. This e book has now reached its vacation spot at Valve HQ. The long run is wanting brilliant for TF2. Thanks for collaborating, everybody.”
340,000+ names all compiled into 1 e book. It is a image of the astounding quantity of folks that love TF2 and need to see it flourish.
This e book has now reached its vacation spot at Valve HQ. The long run is wanting brilliant for TF2. Thanks for collaborating, everybody ❤️#FixTF2 pic.twitter.com/6VLiVG99Pa
— Thewhat (@Thewhat89) September 7, 2024
Team Fortress 2, which arrived means again in 2007, is one of the preferred and beloved multiplayer video games of all time. However regardless of this, or maybe as a result of of it, it has an overwhelming bot drawback the place faux gamers infiltrate matches with sport breaking hacks put in, offensive content material on show, and far more.
A marketing campaign to get rid of bots started in 2022 and gained the eye of Valve, which did enhance Team Fortress 2 by initiating a bot ban. However the issue has grown once more as time handed, with gamers now hoping this e book does sufficient to make Valve listen.
The final message was seemingly ignored, nonetheless, as in June 2024 gamers tanked the Team Fortress 2 Steam web page by bringing its evaluate score to “principally unfavourable,” the worst classification on Valve’s platform.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.