{"id":608501,"date":"2026-03-22T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/team-fortress-2-bot-issue"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:52:50","slug":"valve-is-stepping-in-to-deal-with-team-fortress-2s-rampant-bot-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/valve-is-stepping-in-to-deal-with-team-fortress-2s-rampant-bot-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve is stepping in to deal with Team Fortress 2&#8217;s rampant bot issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/valve-is-stepping-in-to-deal-with-team-fortress-2s-rampant-bot-issue.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Team Fortress 2<\/strong> has been plagued by bot issues for a while now, but <strong>Valve<\/strong> has finally pledged to fix them.<\/p>\n<p>For the past couple of years, the multiplayer first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 has had some serious bot problems. These problems have been ramping up in recent months, with fans even going so far as to stage a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/team-fortress-2-community-bands-together-for-peaceful-protest-to-savetf2\">peaceful protest<\/a> asking Valve to do something about the issue. Now, finally, Valve is actually stepping in to take action.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TF2 community, we hear you!&#8221; wrote the official Team Fortress 2 Twitter account. &#8220;We love this game and know you do, too. We see how large this issue has become and are working to improve things.&#8221; This is the first time the Team Fortress 2 account has actually posted since 2020, pointing at how out of hand things have gotten.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/team-fortress-2-bot-issue\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/team-fortress-2-bot-issue\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Fortress 2 has been plagued by bot issues for a while now, but Valve has finally pledged to fix them. For the past couple of years, the multiplayer first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 has had some serious bot problems. These problems have been ramping up in recent months, with fans even going so far as to stage a peaceful protest asking Valve to do something about the issue. Now, finally, Valve is actually stepping in to take action. &#8220;TF2 community, we hear you!&#8221; wrote the official Team Fortress 2 Twitter account. &#8220;We love this game and know you do, too. 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