Good news for Team Fortress 2 fans, especially those participating in the recent #SaveTF2 campaign, a 'peaceful protest' aimed at reminding Valve that their FPS game is still loved and enjoyed by many players in spite of TF2's long standing bot woes. Valve has now officially acknowledged the problem - or, at least, felt moved enough to dig the password for the official TF2 twitter account out of a drawer and post for the first time in almost two years.

"TF2 community, we hear you! We love this game and know you do, too. We see how large this issue has become and are working to improve things." Those are the words posted to the Team Fortress Twitter account - a small gesture of recognition, perhaps, but one that will come as very welcome to some fans who feel Valve has been too silent on the free-to-play game's recent troubles.

By far the game's most complained-about issue is bots, with a plague of aimbots affecting the game since the leak of TF2's source code in 2020. However, leading community figures also say they feel that a game that still regularly hits 75,000 concurrent players (currently sitting at number seven on the steam player charts at the time of writing) deserves regular updates that have been largely absent over the last few years.

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