TF2 was the first game I played on steam and it is my favorite besides Modded Minecraft.

However, as of late ( the past 5 years ) it's becoming steadily difficult to even play the game proper. The public game servers are infested with aimbots hosted my malicious parties and scripters cheat with impunity. The anticheat doesn't work. These groups actively defame, impersonate, doxx, and swat anyone who attempts to expose their activity. The scripts that these parties use is ( was very recently ) publicly available and open source. Despite the cheats/bots being open source and despite the wealth of resources at Valve's disposal, Valve actively chooses band-aid fixes so long as it benefits their bottom line. More specifically they claim not to want to do "treadmill work" to combat the cheating issue, but are fine with the treadmill work of releasing mediocre to subpar, barely quality controlled community content. Not only is Valve negligent over TF2's treatment, but it's becoming increasingly clear that they outright profit from its decline.

While at the best of times it continues to be a well designed and enjoyable multiplayer experience, DO NOT give Valve your money, until they begin actually addressing the dilapidated state of TF2.

#FixTF2