Team Fortress 2's player count doubles after fan pressure sees Valve step in with a bot-demolishing banwave and a firm line on appeals: 'No'

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Team Fortress 2's player count doubles after fan pressure sees Valve step in with a bot-demolishing banwave and a firm line on appeals: 'No' - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24245730 [https://lemmy.ca/post/24245730]

Pretty suspect about these numbers, given that before this ban wave about 78% of the steam player count for TF2 was bots (source). So this wouldn’t be a doubling of human players, but about a 10x increase. It’s possible… But to me this looks like a bunch more bots being spun up and evading the new ban measures.
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As someone who has played casual the past few days, it is now hard to run into bots in games so i believe the player count; tho idk how long it will last/who knows when the bots would be back