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[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What's the story? What's wrong with tf2

[–] Ledivin 95 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bots and cheaters have completely overtaken it and the small community that still plays has finally had enough

[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (2 children)

the small community that still plays

70k+ people playing daily

You and I have very different concepts of small.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Surely that 70k would include the bots though? Like of it's 69,500 bots and 500 people then it seems fair to call it a small community

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Na there is a lot of real players still playing.

Aus for example community servers get full quick, there is a pro league going with multiple divisions, and then those who try brave casual servers as well.

Aus alone would have over 500+ players regularly playing daily.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Check this video, bots count as players in the stats, the real player numbers are like 15k/10k.

https://youtu.be/2stmQfv93oQ

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

Not bad for a 20 years old game.

[–] Blaster_M 38 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Botters have gone from aimbotting and afk item farming to basically crowding public lobbies with their bots, then using ai to voice spam slurs and "confessions of illegal activities" in the voice of people trying to bring attention to the bot problem. The botters have also done both doxxing (impersonating said people and spamming their personal info as well as using ai voice chat spam to get people to do vigilante action against innocent people), swatting (see previous), as well as using their majority in a server to kick anyone that tries to combat them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNxjTciIwig

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

That's so grim.

[–] RageAgainstTheRich 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Valve just closing their eyes and ears like they do to all other shitty things being done by players on their platform.

[–] shotgun_crab 7 points 6 months ago

Some people just have too much free time huh