![]() ![]() The Dota 2 esports scene is currently a mess amid a multi-team coronavirus outbreak during the season’s first Major tournament in Singapore. Professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players are leaving the esports scene in droves amid widespread league mismanagement, and longstanding communication and gameplay issues. Unfortunately, the company has trouble with transparency in these arenas, too. ![]() In the meantime, Valve has been running Steam, the largest PC game distribution hub in existence, and focusing on the non-software aspects of its business, such as VR devices, esports tournaments and anime series. Despite the release of a VR-only Half-Life game in 2020, fans are still waiting for Episode 3, nearly 14 years after the launch of Episode 2. ![]() Team Fortress 2 hasn’t received consistent support for years now, and the Left 4 Dead and Portal franchises stalled out more than a decade ago. The studio has a long history of poor communication with players, and it tends to abandon incredibly popular properties without warning and seemingly without a plan. There’s a clear reason for this lack of faith in Valve. The game’s Steam forums are littered with players complaining about the invasion, offering potential solutions, and wondering if Valve will do anything about it. Hughes isn’t the only TF2 player with a beef against the bots. Even when that's not the case, it often takes a few minutes to clear them all out at the beginning of a game.” Hughes describes it as follows: “It can differ from week to week, but there are times when the majority of players on a server are bots. Plus, there’s still hate speech coming from a handful of bots with the ability to mimic the names and avatars of real players, and type in chat. And even though most of the bots can’t chat anymore, they can still call vote kicks against actual players and flood matches with coordinated disruption campaigns. This removes a large portion of the bigoted speech, but it also means free-account players can’t communicate in-game. Hughes was under the impression that the chat restrictions on free accounts would be temporary, but they’re still in place today. They may have taken away the bots’ ability to unequip your cosmetic items and it's now impossible for free accounts to spam the chat with racist stuff, but casual mode is pretty much unplayable now.” More specifically, Hughes said, “The bots are worse than ever. ![]()
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