Team Fortress 2

From 2007 to 2017 Valve defined the live-service shooter playbook with TF2: class updates, Mann vs. Machine, community content economies. Then the Jungle Inferno update (Oct 2017) became the last major update, Valve went years without communicating from the game's channels, and aimbot/hate-speech bots made casual play miserable for years. The May 2022 #SaveTF2 campaign forced a response — anti-bot patches, an August 2022 VAC purge, and the Summer 2023 update that set an all-time player record (253,997 concurrent) — but bots re-emerged and a 2024 petition (140,000+ signatures) showed the anti-cheat support was never sustained.

• No major update since Jungle Inferno (Oct 2017) and no tweet from the official account between 2020 and May 2022, while bots flooded official servers for years.
• #SaveTF2 (May 2022) forced Valve's hand: anti-bot patches in June/July 2022 and a mass VAC ban wave in August 2022 finally cleared the crisis.
• Summer 2023 update — largely community-made content — drove a record 253,997 concurrent players (per SteamDB), showing support was possible, then stalled.
• The bot fix was never sustained: bots re-emerged and a 2024 #SaveTF2 petition gathered 140,000+ signatures demanding durable anti-cheat and communication.