TF2 Fans Hand Deliver Book With 340,000 Signatures Calling For Valve To Fix The Game

TF2 Fans Hand Deliver Book With 340,000 Signatures Calling For Valve To Fix The Game

From TheGamer (Written by James Troughton) on | OpenCritic

A TF2 fan walks into Valve HQ; that isn't the start of a bad joke, that's what happened last week. After 340,000 players signed the #FixTF2 petition, the names were printed onto a book that was then hand delivered to the developer in Bellevue, Washington.

The community has been calling on Valve for some time now to address the rampant bot problem, as getting into a match with only human opponents is exceedingly difficult. Community servers are one workaround, but they're not a substitute for the real thing. So, #FixTF2 was born.

For the past five years, Team Fortress 2 has become nearly unplayable. The game's official servers have been overrun by hordes of cheating aimbots while Valve has remained steadfast in their refusal to adequatly tackle the problem.

Focused squarely on the bot problem, not the lack of updates or even yet-to-be-fixed bugs, it has a dedicated website encouraging fans to post on Reddit, Twitter, and all other social media platforms about the crisis.

The website also hosted the petition (which is now closed), and they've been planning since June of this year to get every signature into Valve's hands. Now, that's been...