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For the first time in it's 17 year run, TF2's review status has been demoted to "Mixed". (x.com)
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[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The game is dying, the vast majority of players are bots that idle for items.

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It would be okay if they were idle bots, they're bots using cheats that go into random lobbies to ruin the game.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cheater bots only make up like 1% of the bots in tf2.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

But they make up enough of the population to make it highly likely to run into one in a public match