Steam

I give Valve the benefit of the doubt and assume that they know that there's plenty of consumers that are heavily against a kernel level anticheat. Valve is not really known for anti-consumer bullshit like this.

I haven't played TF2 in 6 or 7 years but it sure as shit had anti-cheat measures back then, how'd it get this shitty? Dev neglect?

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

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

I expect people have moved onto other and better games, and never bothered to update their review from years ago - I definitely fall into that category.

community servers are fine, and it's a great game. people were just holding out hope that valve would do something but they didn't.

All of their other games economies wod crumble if they did that