Overwhelmingly Negative Reviews?

[AlphaZeroX96]

What happened? What caused this to happen???

[Wheeljack]

something about redditors or something idk

[Eighteen-Counts Trevor]

Review bomb

[Mina]

A recent movement advised it to catch the attention of valve

[ahe]

this ♥♥♥♥ is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by the bots that's what happened. #FIXTF2

[Rim Carrey]

Originally posted by Walter Clements:

Review bomb

I hate this phrase. It insinuates that the negative reviews are being negative for no good reason when there's a good reason.

[2002 Toyota Camry]

Originally posted by Void Bearer:

Originally posted by Walter Clements:

Review bomb

I hate this phrase. It insinuates that the negative reviews are being negative for no good reason when there's a good reason.

There is no good reason, it is just whining about a problem that whining won’t solve.

[SkullKid0155]

Originally posted by SaviorAssassin1996:

What happened? What caused this to happen???

For context, If you have been playing casual servers recently, you will have probably seen a whole bunch of botted accounts, automated players which navigate the map with the sniper class and headshot others to instantly kill them.

The plunge in reviews is related to that, the bots have been a problem for a long time, and players want valve to do something.

[Rim Carrey]

Originally posted by 2002 Toyota Camry:

Originally posted by Void Bearer:

I hate this phrase. It insinuates that the negative reviews are being negative for no good reason when there's a good reason.

There is no good reason, it is just whining about a problem that whining won’t solve.

You're delusional for thinking there's no good reason lmao. "Whining" gtfo

[Dominic]

Originally posted by Void Bearer:

Originally posted by Walter Clements:

Review bomb

I hate this phrase. It insinuates that the negative reviews are being negative for no good reason when there's a good reason.

I mean it is not Valve who is doing stuff with bots, but others who made them. If anyone deserves the bad attention it is them. But they like attention good or bad ether way.

[SkullKid0155]

Originally posted by Dominic:

Originally posted by Void Bearer:

I hate this phrase. It insinuates that the negative reviews are being negative for no good reason when there's a good reason.

I mean it is not Valve who is doing stuff with bots, but others who made them. If anyone deserves the bad attention it is them. But they like attention good or bad ether way.

It is the fault of valve that the bot hosters have the ability to host bots in the first place, the Valve AntiCheat (VAC) is faulty and has been faulty for a long time, and valve has refused to address it.

[Dominic]

Originally posted by SkullKid0155 | trade.tf:

Originally posted by Dominic:

I mean it is not Valve who is doing stuff with bots, but others who made them. If anyone deserves the bad attention it is them. But they like attention good or bad ether way.

It is the fault of valve that the bot hosters have the ability to host bots in the first place, the Valve AntiCheat (VAC) is faulty and has been faulty for a long time, and valve has refused to address it.

I am a pretty realistic man. But what do you do when you make a game free to play? Everytime they are caught they can just do it again with no downsides. I mean yeah maybe if Valve starts to sue the creators and the people who use them then it can work.

Worked for Fortnite and Epic games.

Biggest problem that happened was Valve made Team Fortress 2 free to play back in 2011. Opened the flood gates that eventually lead us here.

[FireTire]

The review bomb is out of love for the game but not out of hate, we've been neglected so long: we as a community had politely asked valve to fix their game and that did not get us anywhere.

Now we are demanding valve to fix their game.

[SkullKid0155]

Originally posted by FireTire:

The review bomb is out of love for the game but not out of hate, we've been neglected so long: we as a community had politely asked valve to fix their game and that did not get us anywhere.

Now we are demanding valve to fix their game.

This is correct, however the review bomb needs to be localized to team fortress 2 itself, review bombing more games that are unrelated is not a good idea regardless of the intent.

You could be banned for doing so.

...I think. It's best not to risk it.

[spice]

something about bots i'm not really sure

[Eighteen-Counts Trevor]

Originally posted by Void Bearer:

Originally posted by Walter Clements:

Review bomb

I hate this phrase. It insinuates that the negative reviews are being negative for no good reason when there's a good reason.

That sounds like a you problem tbh.