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Fed-up Team Fortress 2 players swamp the 16-year-old game with a review bomb


Fans of Team Fortress 2, a 2007 shooter that is still among the top 10 most-played games on Steam, launched a review-bomb protest against what they say is a neglected game.

TF2 hit an all-time peak of more than 253,000 concurrent users in July 2023, though those numbers plunged below 75,000 on Tuesday, no doubt influenced by the protest campaign. Owen Good is a 15-year veteran of video games writing, also covering pop culture and entertainment subjects for the likes of Kotaku and Polygon. A second-generation newspaperman, Good's career before covering video games included daily newspaper stints in North Carolina; in upstate New York; in Washington, D.C., with the Associated Press; and…

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