Comment on Slander, extortion and doxxing - beneath the surface of TF2’s bot crisis

• Gnugit@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s likely they care but it’s such a cat and mouse game. Within a week or two any new patch will have a work around by bots and cheaters anyway.

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  • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And yet they really don’t do anything about it, I have yet to see evidence that they engage in the cat and mouse game. A lot of cheaters have full inventories of skins and have been cheating for many years at this point with the same cheats

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    • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you don’t think Valve is banning anyone from their games then I invite you to take a trip to the VAC steam forums and see all the posts from people proclaiming their innocence and complaining about their ban. Always a good time.

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      • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I didn’t say they weren’t banning people, I said they aren’t really playing the cat and mouse game. VAC is a known system and it doesn’t actually affect cheating in any meaningful way since the game is free, steam accounts are easy to create, and time between VAC waves is extremely long.

        Go play a few matches of CS2 on competitive without buying the premier and tell me that they’re doing anything at all that is effective. It’s gotten so bad that playing on non-premier games I will get a cheater in the lobby about 75% of the time. And premier isn’t immune but it’s about 20% of the time.

        Most of what needs to be done is that their servers need to clean up and stop sending so much data to the client and also the servers need anti-cheat. There’s been some suggestions of this by people getting banned for moving their mouse to fast repeatedly, but that’s about all they’ve done of note.

        If you think that the company who has almost entirely abandoned TF2 and left it to rot to cheaters is doing much with CS, I think that’d be a bad assumption.

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  • Moneo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People are being harassed and doxed by a group of people that have turned one of their most popular games into a fucking cesspool. They need to either throw in the towel and drop support for TF2 or wage war on these losers.

    Hire a dedicated team, involve the police, I don’t fucking know. The current state of TF2 is an absolute disgrace, it’s fucking pathetic.

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    • Gnugit@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didn’t know it was that bad! I never really played it but that sounds rough. People suck.

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