Team Fortress 2 plummets to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative’ on Steam as its biggest fans stoke the righteous flames of anti-bot outrage
Team Fortress 2 plummets to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative’ on Steam as its biggest fans stoke the righteous flames of anti-bot outrage
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>”TF2’s recent review rating has plummeted to Mostly Negative thanks to areview-bombing surge that, judging from the graph, started hitting justas the #FixTF2 campaign spun up on June 3. The influx of negativereviews is so huge—more than 14,000 have hit in the last 24 hours—thatit’s warped the scale of the chart, rendering any positive sentiment forthe game into barely noticeable blue nubs.”
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>”Looking at TF2’s overall review history, there’s never been a windowwhere players have left anywhere near this many negative reviews. If yougingerly mouse over the individual months on the graph, you’ll findthat not even in 2022—when #SaveTF2 first emerged—was there a periodwhere TF2 received even a tenth as many negative reviews as players haveleft over the last day.”
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>”I might’ve assumed a healthy number of those reviews were left byplayers who saw the #FixTF2 posts and wanted to jump on the outragebandwagon for a laugh, even if they don’t have much attachment to thegame. But from what I can see by browsing recent reviews, the vastmajority are being left by people with dozens of hours of playtime inTF2, if not hundreds, or even thousands. Maybe I should’ve known better.I mean, it’s Team Fortress 2…”
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>”Valve hasn’t yet responded to the latest wave of demands for anti-botmeasures. Funnily enough, the Team Fortress 2 official Twitter accounthasn’t tweeted since it acknowledged the last widespread outcryin 2022. If nothing else, the review-bombing leaves a pretty glaringmark. Based on what I can glean from Steam review graphs, Team Fortress 2has a new claim to fame: It’s the only Valve game to ever drop below a Mixed rating for recent reviews.”
been reposted a bunch of time already here