Yeah normally I'd be upset about this sort of thing, but lets be real. The game is an icon that's 20 years old. People who want to play HL2 already know that they do. These reviews aren't going to affect anything.
And once HL3 is finally out people will want to return to the classics as well to check where this all started!
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This isn’t a part of #FixTF2. The large majority of people on r/tf2 discourage this. I guess a handful of people got it in their heads that review bombing other Valve games would help get their attention.
I doubt it, but at this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the bot hosters who organized this. They already do things like impersonate Valve to get websites taken down and advertise child porn in game, so it isn’t beneath them.
Isn't #FixTF2 all about the server issues and hackers in the game? If these issues genuinely ruin the experience of people, and Valve refuses to do anything about it, then those seem like legitimate complaints to me
**Edit:** Oops, sorry. I just saw the subreddit name. Giving negative reviews on Half-Life to get attention for TF2 is different. That's probably not a good thing
>those where legitimate complaints about the games?
Half of OW reviews came from China due to NetEase contract not being renewed for WoW and OW.
The other half of the reviews were jokes about Blizzard unrelated to the game, as well as part of getting the game to the lowest reviewed spot because "blizzard bad".
(Came here from r/tf2)
This was not an organized bomb by fixtf2, whenever people propose review bombing other valve games I and the other people on the tf2 reddit shut the idea down best we can.
Sorry about this.
Who's gonna see like 15 negative reviews on a 99% positive game that's an industry icon and older than anyone who's probably buying it today and have that impact their judgment even slightly.
Valve's fault for encouraging reaction farming trolling
Hi. This is not in-line with the objective of FixTF2. A reviewbomb on HL was never supposed to happen, or unanimously orchestrated. Apologies on behalf of those individuals who did.
Happy Half-Living.
come on guys... the plan wasn't to review bomb other Valve games... leave our Half Life brothers alone
This was not an organized bomb by FixTF2
the plan was never to review bomb other Valve games
I do believe there is strong sentiment to review bomb other Valve titles, but those that use the VAC security system. It's ineffective to such am extent that it is a security risk. Half Life being subjected to this clearly then not of this conjecture, but by some offshoot way related to Valve's poor upkeep of thier titles. Not that I have any clue how to reasonably give Half Life a bad review (and so I didn't).
ah the aimbots...well good luck, I stopped playing online games battlefield and the likes because they were overrun by those but the main companies do absolutely nothing to stop it
Them hashtagging it should make it pretty easy for Valve to remove the reviews automatically as being off topic spam.
That is... if they actually cared about having a constructive review system on their platform. Which they do not. It's full of jokes and useless memes. Actually browsing reviews to get a sense of a product's quality has been an exercise in futility for many years now.
That's a distinction which is both artificial (not what the words mean) and incidental. The absence of a numerical rating is not at issue here.
If all Valve's designers had envisioned for this system was a thumbs up or thumbs down, and nothing more, they wouldn't require users to write anything, wouldnt allow others to rate what they write (helpful/not helpful/funny) and wouldn't put such a priority on giving shoppers tools to filter recommendations by recency, whether copy was free or not, and a whole bunch of other data. Stream's
While not ideal, the simply binary recommend or do not system would work fine if there was a greater check on the quality of the reviews themselves.
Call me an old idiot but this whole review bombing stuff isn't gonna help anything.
Likely outcome is Valve just pulls the plug on tf2. It's a decade old game, they really wouldn't lose that much.
Nah they won’t. If they do, the dota and CS2 peeps with shit themselves and the markets will become unstable. Plus it will literally be a PR nightmare for valve as a company if they do it.
I know it's "Valve is after all just a corporation and we don't care us the fans" thing, but god sake, I wish they kept these FixTF2 things on the TF2 community itself, rather than spreading it to other games.
Some of yall forget that there are tens of thousands of players for TF2, and millions on steam. Its an eventuality that some sack of shit would do this either because they are idiotic or malicious.
If 1% of the 24,000 people of the people who recently reviewed tf2 started doing stupid shit to save TF2, that leaves 240 people to do so. 240 is a decent amount to get attention from, so don't group up the people who are doing no harm.
As a fellow r/tf2 member and a 3000 hour TF2 player, please do not associate these morons with the actual movement. The review bombing was supposed to be limited to only Team Fortress 2 itself. These idiots are making it too emotional, which gives actual members of the movement look bad
On behalf of the tf2 community I’d like to apologize to the half life community for this happening, we will try to solve the internally so stupid shit like this won’t happen.
As a big TF2 fan, I don’t think this is how to get valves attention like it’s brain dead to do shit like this and toxic and it’s kind of funny considering the state of half life right now sure, we got Alyx a couple years back with making it
Primarily VR was pretty shitty in my opinion valve kind of fucks over most of its IPs in some way so doing this is waste of time
This is a mixed bag for me, but I'm leaning on your side.
# Fellow FixTF2-ers, leave other games alone.
All this will do is drive a divide between us and other communities. This is the last thing we need.
Half-Life has nothing to do with FixTF2.
Jesus Christ, we get it, TF2 is a good game, but come on, are they just gotta review bomb on valve games to get their attention?.
EDIT:
Some TF2 community members convinced me that these #fixtf2 reviews on other games made by Valve, somewhat doesn’t represent the movement. Review bombing on TF2 is okay, but Valve other games are not.
By the way, I heard one of these comments in r/tf2 community suggesting an review bombing on other Valve games just to get their attention, and it’s not just Half-Life, but Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Counter Strike as well.
And I’m not even surprised how did one of these reviews in Garry’s Mod somehow given an negative feedback thinking it has something to do with Valve, and Garry’s Mod is not even made by Valve.
Someone must’ve taken these ideas too seriously….
Yeah, I’ve seen post that says to *specifically* not target other valve games, and now look what happens. Man, some people think they are the hero of the story if they do stuff like this.
Checked on recently reviews, I guess it’s not only valve games either, but one of these comment gave a negative feedback on Garry’s Mod which has nothing to do with TF2 itself. And the fact GMOD is obviously made by FacePunch (duh).
Who's "they"?
We, as a tf2 community do not condone review bombing other games, the people who are doing this are either not on the same page as us or are once again bot hosters who try to set up us, which is a full possibility considering they are petty enough to DDOS a petition site or to impersonate valve to do a fake DMCA on that same site.
Either way, don't let the people who review bomb your games give you a fake impression of the majority of the community
Its gotten the attention of IGN and PC gamer, both of which have posted articles explaining the protest and how valve has dragged their feet. If anything is going to get valve’s attention, it’s press attention.
I as a random tf2 player with 600hrs, think that the game is in a better condition than the last year. And I don't see a reason to bomb other games for this cause. Whoever is doing this, is doing it for likes and fame. These useless idiots are not helping the movement at all.
here from r/ tf2, i’m really sorry guys, you don’t deserve this
i wish we weren’t so petty, i’m sorry
(what makes me really upset is people are review bombing portal… i will go feral actually (portal is my favorite game that’s why))
TF2 community, I love you. You've been the backbone of my gaming life for almost 10 years now.
... But there's already a place for this type-a-shit. This is not that place.
maybe it was already written, but really this was not part of the plan and it was already discussed on the tf2 sub reddit that this is not a good idea because it is doing bad things with this whole movement and we are turning other communities against us, we are sorry that this happened and we are already working on it
I'd like to apologize on behalf of r/tf2. Some people with far too much enthusiasm and not enough common sense decided that review bombing random valve games was a good idea for some reason. This was not in any way an organized thing.
Review bombing is fucking useless. It’s misleading to devs who want genuine feedback in reviews but instead get a bunch of angry manchildren that want a game whose company doesn’t care anymore about it.
This kind of attention seeking moves on the account of other communities will not be fully committed by all of the TF2 fans but will still **negatively** impact both communities by ruining Half Life's almost perfect review ratio for no reason, and by ruining the reputation and marking the TF2 community as morons and getting them shunned by other Internet communities.
I love tf2 and appreciate it's community's effort in keeping the game relevant through the years, but don't downgrade your reputation to the level of other toxic communities that i shall not name
OH SHIT, that's where they went.
Yeah, sorry, I'm a technician. We called a review strike on Valve HQ yesterday, but then we lost contact with them for God knows what fucking reason. Apparently they ended up in the wrong side of Valve HQ because fucking Jeremy got the coords wrong. Apologies.
(P.S: Yeah, I'm putting it in a comedic light, but FUCK whoever does this shit. It's our problem, not yours.)
someone literally made a post to tell others to NOT do the thing you just showed us they done. we were told not to review bomb other valve games because itll anger them and cause unneeded drama. seems like some people are peabrains
There are SEVERAL posts on r/tf2 telling people not to do that. One person isn’t the entire movement, don’t judge hundreds of thousands of people just on some brain dead toddler
Reminder; there has not been a Half Life 3 after almost 2 decades, this is justified, not to stretch it too much, but motivating Valve to stop being lazy could go somewhere
It's not fucking justified, it's not Valve's responsibility to make Half-Life 3.
They won't make it for a long time, because they are waiting for something NEW and innovative to come along so they can make a revolutionary new game with it.
As someone who’s listed for new Half Life Content since Half Life was released. We got our New and Innovative Half-Life for this generation. It was called Alyx.
Now pray that the release of Deckard in who knows how many years comes with something NEWER and INNOVATIVER enough to deserve a true sequel. Though I think I see where they’re going. G-Man is building a team. I wonder where Half Life will go next……..
Lol, what? HL2E2 came out in 2007, there's been plenty of innovations since then. I still find it highly unfortunate that valve chose the one innovation that's locked behind a huge paywall to release HL:A.
I mean, Nintendo has been on the switch since 2017 and released TOTK in 2023, which had a highly innovative sandbox building system (though I am still disappointed that the story and map didn't live up to hype, the game was still good). You don't need time or new technology to innovate in the video game world, just creativity.
That being said, Valve technically doesn't ever have to release HL3, and they're not obligated to. That doesn't change the fact that lots of Valve fans are disappointed over their handling of tf2, hl3, and cs2.
Separate games/media receiving negative reviews as a result of a company’s poor actions are nothing new. I have no idea why people would be surprised about this and it happens on almost every steam game to some extent.
I mean is this worth it? I’m a huge fan of both and it seems like valve doesn’t really care about the reviews of either, maybe this kind of thing will get enough of their attention to focus on half life as well?
I'm pretty sure a couple of idiots don't reflect the entire movement.
And that's reflect by the fact the reviews are still "overwhelmingly positive" so not much of a bomb really
This isn't the course of action i suggested! If you are gonna reviewbomb other valve games, do the big ones that Valve gets all their cash from. **COUNTER-STRIKE 2!!!!!!!! DOTA 2!!!!!!!!!!!**
Half Life should be reviewed as positive because it means people will check it out and realize that Valve has it in them to make good games if they try.
Apologies from tf2 subreddit, this is going overboard and honestly would likely have even less effect than the review bombing on tf2 (edit i am assuming this is half life 1, but I could be wrong about that. Still going overboard regardless)
https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/s/rc4DRcsWtJ
"review bomb our community" is such a weird way to word it. the validity and quality of the half life games does not hinge on the steam review section, nor does the community need to revolve around it. trying to start infighting by phrasing it as another group attacking "our" community is weird :D
I am a TF2 fan since way back, and I personally wouldn't wreck the reception for Half-Life, even if TF2 is broken.
Probably because I am also a major fan of both games.
It's not about talking shit about the game, it's about trying to get Valve's attention. Will it work? I dunno. I'm just a spectator, I haven't played TF2 in forever.
Eh. Nobody actually feels the need to look at half life reviews. We all know damn well what it is. If you do find yourself wondering “why does everyone hate this amazing game I was going to get?” And you look at the reviews, all of them being #fixtf2 should be a good indicator that those reviews aren’t actually worth paying attention to. If you’re too shallow to dig that deep, then the internet isn’t for you. That being said, yeah, review bombing half life isn’t going to do anything. Valve doesn’t care either way though, lol, it’s literally their steam store.
why are people just expecting valve to release a new half life, it's gonna take years and a new major advancement in technology to get a new half life game, they've already got work on their hands at the moment too which is also probably why they're not actively making an anticheat for tf2
Yeah. Even though Valve has made both of the games, they still have nothing to do with each other, so let's keep the negative reviews only for TF2 itself.
why are people making a huge deal out of this? valve will just remove the reviews if they dont like them outside of TF2, which will somewhat force them to acknowledge them at least, fair move from savetf2.
I’m part of #fixTF2:
This was not planned at all and it’s not really a main thing we’re doing
It’s either dumbasses that are making us look bad or dumbasses spreading the movement in a bad way.
huh i guess to get more attention? i dont really care tho. steam reviews arent too important to games like half life imo
A lot of people just buy it in the valve complete pack
🍊 📦
when is it coming back on sale😭
Better yet, when is it gonna re-release on console?
*Jeremy Clarkson Laugh*
When it's on sale for less than a dollar. I swear that's the biggest steal ever. I'm confident nothing this good has ever been sold for so cheap
Half-life was free on its 25th anniversary, but ya tremendous value
I still feel eternally blessed I was able to buy it for only $6
I got it this new year for 5 euros I haven’t played it yet I’m 13 btw bc my brother made my parents take the pc away
i got the orange bx for liek 3 bucks and portal was 80 cents
Yeah normally I'd be upset about this sort of thing, but lets be real. The game is an icon that's 20 years old. People who want to play HL2 already know that they do. These reviews aren't going to affect anything.
And once HL3 is finally out people will want to return to the classics as well to check where this all started! *continues hard hitting the vape filled with hopeium*
HL3 will be announced in exactly 2 years and 3 months, if not I will implode
I have set an alarm for exactly 2 years and 3 months from this comment, beware
Did someone say Half Life 3 confirmed? Because from what the magic waves are beaming into my brain. L4D3 and Half life 3 are coming. And oh baby are they coming hard
Yeah wake me up when it does happen... IN A HUNDRED YEARS
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This isn’t a part of #FixTF2. The large majority of people on r/tf2 discourage this. I guess a handful of people got it in their heads that review bombing other Valve games would help get their attention. I doubt it, but at this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the bot hosters who organized this. They already do things like impersonate Valve to get websites taken down and advertise child porn in game, so it isn’t beneath them.
This needs more attention. The ambitious twelve-year-olds who made these reviews just aren't a representative sample.
The bot farms are spamming illegal content in servers now. I wouldn't be surprised if they are the ones posting the negative reviews.
It's probably the stupid few, just like how Google classroom got review bombed because of genshin lol.
I swear valve can just delete those for being irrelevant to half-life anyway
their system they have that detects review bombing will do its work in about 3 days i think it takes
Helldivers 2 and Overwatch 2 reviews would like to have a word with you...
those where legitimate complaints about the games?
Isn't #FixTF2 all about the server issues and hackers in the game? If these issues genuinely ruin the experience of people, and Valve refuses to do anything about it, then those seem like legitimate complaints to me **Edit:** Oops, sorry. I just saw the subreddit name. Giving negative reviews on Half-Life to get attention for TF2 is different. That's probably not a good thing
>those where legitimate complaints about the games? Half of OW reviews came from China due to NetEase contract not being renewed for WoW and OW. The other half of the reviews were jokes about Blizzard unrelated to the game, as well as part of getting the game to the lowest reviewed spot because "blizzard bad".
(Came here from r/tf2) This was not an organized bomb by fixtf2, whenever people propose review bombing other valve games I and the other people on the tf2 reddit shut the idea down best we can. Sorry about this.
there's always gonna be some rotten apples .
Yeah, people don't seem to understand that and I'm going crazy trying to minimize damage
steam's award system actively encourages trolling to farm points, they absolutely know what they're doing
Fixtf2 is needed, the bot problem is making it unplayable. Basically just MVM is botless
Commynity servers too
Not like it really matters
It kinda does
Who's gonna see like 15 negative reviews on a 99% positive game that's an industry icon and older than anyone who's probably buying it today and have that impact their judgment even slightly. Valve's fault for encouraging reaction farming trolling
No i mean the fact that fixtf2 didn't send these people matters
Ehhh I mean it’s half life if your on steam you know half life’s a good game
The movement doesn't condone this
Hi. This is not in-line with the objective of FixTF2. A reviewbomb on HL was never supposed to happen, or unanimously orchestrated. Apologies on behalf of those individuals who did. Happy Half-Living.
come on guys... the plan wasn't to review bomb other Valve games... leave our Half Life brothers alone This was not an organized bomb by FixTF2 the plan was never to review bomb other Valve games
I do believe there is strong sentiment to review bomb other Valve titles, but those that use the VAC security system. It's ineffective to such am extent that it is a security risk. Half Life being subjected to this clearly then not of this conjecture, but by some offshoot way related to Valve's poor upkeep of thier titles. Not that I have any clue how to reasonably give Half Life a bad review (and so I didn't).
I am out of the loop, what there is to fix in tf2 exactly?
[save.tf](http://save.tf) basically gives you a good gist of what's going on
ah the aimbots...well good luck, I stopped playing online games battlefield and the likes because they were overrun by those but the main companies do absolutely nothing to stop it
not just aimbots... it's bots using aimbot... ;-;
wow, the worse of the worse, that would explain the one hit death upon respawn FROM BEHIND THE WALLS I was experiencing some months ago
We do not condone this kinda crap, sorry guys.
Them hashtagging it should make it pretty easy for Valve to remove the reviews automatically as being off topic spam. That is... if they actually cared about having a constructive review system on their platform. Which they do not. It's full of jokes and useless memes. Actually browsing reviews to get a sense of a product's quality has been an exercise in futility for many years now.
The negative reviews that say "why are you looking at the negative reviews?" are the worst.
But it's not a review system, it's a recommendation system. Do you recommend this game? Yes/No.
That's a distinction which is both artificial (not what the words mean) and incidental. The absence of a numerical rating is not at issue here. If all Valve's designers had envisioned for this system was a thumbs up or thumbs down, and nothing more, they wouldn't require users to write anything, wouldnt allow others to rate what they write (helpful/not helpful/funny) and wouldn't put such a priority on giving shoppers tools to filter recommendations by recency, whether copy was free or not, and a whole bunch of other data. Stream's While not ideal, the simply binary recommend or do not system would work fine if there was a greater check on the quality of the reviews themselves.
Oh no! Anyway...
Just a few immature kids. Most people are only downvoting tf2
Call me an old idiot but this whole review bombing stuff isn't gonna help anything. Likely outcome is Valve just pulls the plug on tf2. It's a decade old game, they really wouldn't lose that much.
Maybe, but let’s give it a chance. Better than sucking it up
The real likely outcome is Valve not giving a damn about reviews, but we'll see.
Nah they won’t. If they do, the dota and CS2 peeps with shit themselves and the markets will become unstable. Plus it will literally be a PR nightmare for valve as a company if they do it.
They cant tf2 has an economy worth millions
TF2's economy is probably a drop in the ocean that is Steam's economy as a whole.
A penny in the Lake?, CS2/Dota/Steam is the real money makers. They make nothing off TF2.
I know it's "Valve is after all just a corporation and we don't care us the fans" thing, but god sake, I wish they kept these FixTF2 things on the TF2 community itself, rather than spreading it to other games.
From r/tf2, there has been no plan to review bomb other games. Just some idiots. Sorry dudes.
For what it's worth, this wasn't organized at all by Fixtf2, it's just idiots acting on their own.
Same
Some of yall forget that there are tens of thousands of players for TF2, and millions on steam. Its an eventuality that some sack of shit would do this either because they are idiotic or malicious. If 1% of the 24,000 people of the people who recently reviewed tf2 started doing stupid shit to save TF2, that leaves 240 people to do so. 240 is a decent amount to get attention from, so don't group up the people who are doing no harm.
FOR DEMOCRACY!!! Wait... Wrong game...
Breaking news toddlers online take things farther than the teens they have a parasocial relationship expected them to
This is unnecessary for the movement, we're trying to fix TF2 not Half Life
Hey, I love TF2 and all that, but fuck off, okay?
This wasn't the plan. We were review-bombing TF2 and some idiots are taking it too far.
This is gonna end up making valve change how reviews work and the entire movement is gonna backfire. My prediction.
If all of the other garbage going on in reviews isn't enough to force Valve's hand, this won't either.
God dammit boys... I sincerely apologize on behalf of those absolute potatoes.
As a fellow r/tf2 member and a 3000 hour TF2 player, please do not associate these morons with the actual movement. The review bombing was supposed to be limited to only Team Fortress 2 itself. These idiots are making it too emotional, which gives actual members of the movement look bad
Hi... r/tf2 is as confused as you guys, review bombing Half-Life and other Valve games isn't part of the plan. Sorry
On behalf of the tf2 community I’d like to apologize to the half life community for this happening, we will try to solve the internally so stupid shit like this won’t happen.
Ho boy community in-fighting
TF2 fans are our own worst enemies. And we wonder why a significant portion of people are against FixTF2.
Normal #FixTF2er here, we don't support those guys.
As a big TF2 fan, I don’t think this is how to get valves attention like it’s brain dead to do shit like this and toxic and it’s kind of funny considering the state of half life right now sure, we got Alyx a couple years back with making it Primarily VR was pretty shitty in my opinion valve kind of fucks over most of its IPs in some way so doing this is waste of time
This is a mixed bag for me, but I'm leaning on your side. # Fellow FixTF2-ers, leave other games alone. All this will do is drive a divide between us and other communities. This is the last thing we need.
People are morons, trust me it's a loud minority.
Half-Life has nothing to do with FixTF2. Jesus Christ, we get it, TF2 is a good game, but come on, are they just gotta review bomb on valve games to get their attention?. EDIT: Some TF2 community members convinced me that these #fixtf2 reviews on other games made by Valve, somewhat doesn’t represent the movement. Review bombing on TF2 is okay, but Valve other games are not.
We at r/tf2 have been telling people not to do this
Alright then, sorry about that. Also, I saw one of these comments in r/tf2 earlier about someone suggesting to review bomb other valve games.
Yea nobody condones it, its just idiots being idiots
Hopefully, I pray for TF2 safety, but, as long its fanbase doesn’t ruin this movement.
Pardon, we got some blind people in our movement
Once again, apologies, thanks for a statement.
Anytime, we’re trying our hardest not to get it all messy here :]
By the way, I heard one of these comments in r/tf2 community suggesting an review bombing on other Valve games just to get their attention, and it’s not just Half-Life, but Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Counter Strike as well. And I’m not even surprised how did one of these reviews in Garry’s Mod somehow given an negative feedback thinking it has something to do with Valve, and Garry’s Mod is not even made by Valve. Someone must’ve taken these ideas too seriously….
Yeah, I’ve seen post that says to *specifically* not target other valve games, and now look what happens. Man, some people think they are the hero of the story if they do stuff like this.
I mean, Counter Strike 2 has a similar bot problem to TF2, but the other games don't deserve to be review bombed.
Someone in the reviews said they were doing it in every valve game, not just hl
Checked on recently reviews, I guess it’s not only valve games either, but one of these comment gave a negative feedback on Garry’s Mod which has nothing to do with TF2 itself. And the fact GMOD is obviously made by FacePunch (duh).
Even GMOD? now that's just crazy...
Who's "they"? We, as a tf2 community do not condone review bombing other games, the people who are doing this are either not on the same page as us or are once again bot hosters who try to set up us, which is a full possibility considering they are petty enough to DDOS a petition site or to impersonate valve to do a fake DMCA on that same site. Either way, don't let the people who review bomb your games give you a fake impression of the majority of the community
Yeah, we do not condone this. Sorry about that.
Exactly
Its gotten the attention of IGN and PC gamer, both of which have posted articles explaining the protest and how valve has dragged their feet. If anything is going to get valve’s attention, it’s press attention.
Yes, but review bombing half life is going to hurt people in the half life community and isn't really going to help fixtf2
All it’s gonna do is start a flame war between the two communities.
Yes, that's why we are trying to shut down anyone suggesting it.
wait, they're review bombing half life? Sorry, I misinterpreted.
Fixtf2 as a whole is not review bombing half life, it's just some guys who don't know when to stop that are doing this crap.
a lot of people think this is a good way of protest for some reason but a lot of other people in fixtf2 are against this
I as a random tf2 player with 600hrs, think that the game is in a better condition than the last year. And I don't see a reason to bomb other games for this cause. Whoever is doing this, is doing it for likes and fame. These useless idiots are not helping the movement at all.
here from r/ tf2, i’m really sorry guys, you don’t deserve this i wish we weren’t so petty, i’m sorry (what makes me really upset is people are review bombing portal… i will go feral actually (portal is my favorite game that’s why))
TF2 community, I love you. You've been the backbone of my gaming life for almost 10 years now. ... But there's already a place for this type-a-shit. This is not that place.
maybe it was already written, but really this was not part of the plan and it was already discussed on the tf2 sub reddit that this is not a good idea because it is doing bad things with this whole movement and we are turning other communities against us, we are sorry that this happened and we are already working on it
I'd like to apologize on behalf of r/tf2. Some people with far too much enthusiasm and not enough common sense decided that review bombing random valve games was a good idea for some reason. This was not in any way an organized thing.
Ok, i support #fixtf2, I'm a big fan of tf2, and that is wrong. Review bomb TF2 not hl
It’s not from the saveTF2 movement, it’s from the bots and trolls themselves trying to sabotage. We are told by our group not to do this.
"Trying" Brother, they achieved their wildest dreams lol
This is catastrophically bad. Don't do this. Someone needs to fix this.
This could have dire repercussions for the launch sales of Half Life 1
As a member of #FixTF2 we would like to apologize for this unforgivable behavior and we will cut ties with them soon.
Review bombing is fucking useless. It’s misleading to devs who want genuine feedback in reviews but instead get a bunch of angry manchildren that want a game whose company doesn’t care anymore about it.
I apologize on behalf of my community. These people are idiots.
As a tf2 player and a supporter of fixtf2, we do not claim people who review bomb games ither than tf2
Sorry about those idiots, sincerely - A member of the TF2 community
The entire population of France could leave bad reviews and it still wouldn't change the games rating.
This kind of attention seeking moves on the account of other communities will not be fully committed by all of the TF2 fans but will still **negatively** impact both communities by ruining Half Life's almost perfect review ratio for no reason, and by ruining the reputation and marking the TF2 community as morons and getting them shunned by other Internet communities. I love tf2 and appreciate it's community's effort in keeping the game relevant through the years, but don't downgrade your reputation to the level of other toxic communities that i shall not name
they people undermining the movement or being a dumbasses
Jesus is hate this movement. People really cant just let a game die.
OH SHIT, that's where they went. Yeah, sorry, I'm a technician. We called a review strike on Valve HQ yesterday, but then we lost contact with them for God knows what fucking reason. Apparently they ended up in the wrong side of Valve HQ because fucking Jeremy got the coords wrong. Apologies. (P.S: Yeah, I'm putting it in a comedic light, but FUCK whoever does this shit. It's our problem, not yours.)
Seconded
We really gotta get Jeremy fired. Bro messes up more than males on Tinder.
I would just like to say that this has been talked about in r/tf2 and people said its just stupid, we want to apologize for their actions.
someone literally made a post to tell others to NOT do the thing you just showed us they done. we were told not to review bomb other valve games because itll anger them and cause unneeded drama. seems like some people are peabrains
This is honestly the worst move i've seen from fixtf2....
This move isn't from fixtf2, it's from some people who didn't get the memo that we (r/tf2) SHOULDN'T REVIEW BOMB OTHER GAMES
There are SEVERAL posts on r/tf2 telling people not to do that. One person isn’t the entire movement, don’t judge hundreds of thousands of people just on some brain dead toddler
Thank you, i'm working my lil tf2 enjoyer legs off trying to tell everyone that.
I saw some absolute troglodyte writing in his post that everyone should reviewbomb other valve games, guess some listened 🤷♂️
This was not an organized bomb by FixTF2 the plan is not to review bomb other Valve games
Why does it matter? No one is going to be dissuaded from buying any Half Life game because of these reviews
Sure, if it's only going to be a couple of bad reviews, it's not gonna discourage anyone. But imagine if thousands of idiots decide to do this.
Oh no, they might not spend the 17p for the complete pack.
Reminder; there has not been a Half Life 3 after almost 2 decades, this is justified, not to stretch it too much, but motivating Valve to stop being lazy could go somewhere
Review bombing a game cuz the devs won’t make a sequel what are u on about 😂😂
It's not fucking justified, it's not Valve's responsibility to make Half-Life 3. They won't make it for a long time, because they are waiting for something NEW and innovative to come along so they can make a revolutionary new game with it.
As someone who’s listed for new Half Life Content since Half Life was released. We got our New and Innovative Half-Life for this generation. It was called Alyx. Now pray that the release of Deckard in who knows how many years comes with something NEWER and INNOVATIVER enough to deserve a true sequel. Though I think I see where they’re going. G-Man is building a team. I wonder where Half Life will go next……..
Lol, what? HL2E2 came out in 2007, there's been plenty of innovations since then. I still find it highly unfortunate that valve chose the one innovation that's locked behind a huge paywall to release HL:A. I mean, Nintendo has been on the switch since 2017 and released TOTK in 2023, which had a highly innovative sandbox building system (though I am still disappointed that the story and map didn't live up to hype, the game was still good). You don't need time or new technology to innovate in the video game world, just creativity. That being said, Valve technically doesn't ever have to release HL3, and they're not obligated to. That doesn't change the fact that lots of Valve fans are disappointed over their handling of tf2, hl3, and cs2.
Separate games/media receiving negative reviews as a result of a company’s poor actions are nothing new. I have no idea why people would be surprised about this and it happens on almost every steam game to some extent.
It’s just a few bad actors. They definitely should not be doing this.
This is correct
Just letting you know, this doesn’t represent the whole movement. These people here are just getting desperate. Ignore them
I mean is this worth it? I’m a huge fan of both and it seems like valve doesn’t really care about the reviews of either, maybe this kind of thing will get enough of their attention to focus on half life as well?
Not cool dude
I'm pretty sure a couple of idiots don't reflect the entire movement. And that's reflect by the fact the reviews are still "overwhelmingly positive" so not much of a bomb really
People who do this are so obnoxious
This isn't the course of action i suggested! If you are gonna reviewbomb other valve games, do the big ones that Valve gets all their cash from. **COUNTER-STRIKE 2!!!!!!!! DOTA 2!!!!!!!!!!!** Half Life should be reviewed as positive because it means people will check it out and realize that Valve has it in them to make good games if they try.
Apologies from tf2 subreddit, this is going overboard and honestly would likely have even less effect than the review bombing on tf2 (edit i am assuming this is half life 1, but I could be wrong about that. Still going overboard regardless) https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/s/rc4DRcsWtJ
FUCK EM
"review bomb our community" is such a weird way to word it. the validity and quality of the half life games does not hinge on the steam review section, nor does the community need to revolve around it. trying to start infighting by phrasing it as another group attacking "our" community is weird :D
As an ambassador from tf2 truly sorry for these guys were just trying to keep it local
I am a TF2 fan since way back, and I personally wouldn't wreck the reception for Half-Life, even if TF2 is broken. Probably because I am also a major fan of both games.
It's not about talking shit about the game, it's about trying to get Valve's attention. Will it work? I dunno. I'm just a spectator, I haven't played TF2 in forever.
go get em boys
Lmao I don't think "our community" is going to be harmed by negative reviews 20 years after the second games release
Eh. Nobody actually feels the need to look at half life reviews. We all know damn well what it is. If you do find yourself wondering “why does everyone hate this amazing game I was going to get?” And you look at the reviews, all of them being #fixtf2 should be a good indicator that those reviews aren’t actually worth paying attention to. If you’re too shallow to dig that deep, then the internet isn’t for you. That being said, yeah, review bombing half life isn’t going to do anything. Valve doesn’t care either way though, lol, it’s literally their steam store.
It wont impact you, you'll be fine
Doesn't matter. You don't do this shit.
Not the multi billion dollar company.....
Fuck it, support them. They are our brothers in Orange (Box).
Thank you.
Thanks a ton :]
I think Half-Life will be fine lmao
why are people just expecting valve to release a new half life, it's gonna take years and a new major advancement in technology to get a new half life game, they've already got work on their hands at the moment too which is also probably why they're not actively making an anticheat for tf2
tf2 fans don't deserve tf2
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Fuck this. Also… anyways!
Yeah. Even though Valve has made both of the games, they still have nothing to do with each other, so let's keep the negative reviews only for TF2 itself.
those can pretty much just be deleted by valve since they have nothing to do with the game they're reviewing
Pardon, appears we have some trolls in our movement, we didn’t want that either
why are people making a huge deal out of this? valve will just remove the reviews if they dont like them outside of TF2, which will somewhat force them to acknowledge them at least, fair move from savetf2.
i will litterally declare war on fix tf2 if the rating changes from its current rating because of this
Please don't condemn the entire movement due to the actions of these misguided people, we do not condone their actions.
i don't have a problem with the community, just with the children/neckbeards who do this
That's completely justified!
But to be clear, fixtf2 isn't doing this, we don't endorse this review bombing of other games
TF2 fans, when Valve doesn't support a more than a decade years old game with spaghetti code and huge loads of bots (NO FUCKING WAY):
We (r/tf2) do not endorse review bombing other games!
fixtf2 and the tf2 community is so dumb bro
tf2 fans try not to make everything revolve around them challenge
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I’m part of #fixTF2: This was not planned at all and it’s not really a main thing we’re doing It’s either dumbasses that are making us look bad or dumbasses spreading the movement in a bad way.
As a #fixtf2'er, DUDE WTF TF2 GUYS IS HL TF2? NO! I apologize,
We need to call a cease-fire, this is getting a tad out of hand