I've been playing since the Pyro update since 2012 and I still remember those times well.

Keys used to cost 2.66 REF. Now they cost 78.22 REF. That's over 30 times the cost and all this is because of the BOTS! Yes, there are thousands of bots for a single player that idle and farm for metal to inflate the prices. And Valve's simple deterrent against this is not working. They don't care.

Hackers were controlled by Humans and were either blatantly obvious or toggle like in CS. Now they are so flat out obvious and no longer needed to be run by a Humans. They just create a bunch of F2P accounts and script them to do chaos in Casual servers. They abuse the party queue system and "join a friend in game" feature to get more bots in at once.

To counter that, Valve simply muted all voice and text communication for all F2P accounts. You call that a fix Valve? Punishing legit players trying out the game for the first time and not fixing the bots?

This has been going on for over 5 years now and it is despicable how Valve hardly does much to fix this.

No Valve, changing some code to break their scripts doesn't do much. They will simply update their Scripts after doing their code homework and its back to square one.

No Valve, taking down a Github repository housing the bot's code doesn't do anything. They still have the bot code locally and can reupload them somewhere else.

These people have made it their life to ruin this game because of your negligence Valve.

UPDATE: The bot hosters have upgraded their aimbot accounts to premium. Therefore the Mic and text spam is back. Now featuring CP. So much for your simple your pay wall deterrent Valve.

Also: For those participating in #FixTF2, keep the hate in TF2 only. Don't review bomb other games to make a message. That's stupid.

#FixTF2 Valve

I've been playing since the Pyro update since 2012 and I still remember those times well. Keys used to cost 2.66 REF. Now they cost 78.22 REF. That's over 30 times the cost and all this is because of the BOTS! Yes, there are thousands of bots for a single player that idle and farm for metal to inflate the prices. And Valve's simple deterrent against this is not working. They don't care. Hackers were controlled by Humans and were either blatantly obvious or toggle like in CS. Now they are so flat out obvious and no longer needed to be run by a Humans. They just create a bunch of F2P accounts and script them to do chaos in Casual servers. They abuse the party queue system and "join a friend in game" feature to get more bots in at once. To counter that, Valve simply muted all voice and text communication for all F2P accounts. You call that a fix Valve? Punishing legit players trying out the game for the first time and not fixing the bots? This has been going on for over 5 years now and it is despicable how Valve hardly does much to fix this. No Valve, changing some code to break their scripts doesn't do much. They will simply update their Scripts after doing their code homework and its back to square one. No Valve, taking down a Github repository housing the bot's code doesn't do anything. They still have the bot code locally and can reupload them somewhere else. These people have made it their life to ruin this game because of your negligence Valve. UPDATE: The bot hosters have upgraded their aimbot accounts to premium. Therefore the Mic and text spam is back. Now featuring CP. So much for your simple your pay wall deterrent Valve. Also: For those participating in #FixTF2, keep the hate in TF2 only. Don't review bomb other games to make a message. That's stupid. #FixTF2 Valve