Tyler "VNN" McVIcker and creators dot tf cronies are behind the bot epidemic
DON'T TRUST ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH CREATORS OR VNN
-summer 2019 VNN begins to say tf2 will not be receiving anymore updates
-crate depression happens and VNN says Valve needs to give tf2's development to the community (Important for later), all while taking the opportunity alongside future "creators" members to cash out of their expensive, donation fed backpacks
-Makes a video a week later saying that out of the current 70k daily tf2 players, only 3k are real players and 50k are bots. Source is teamwork tf, which nobody has heard of before this
-Fall 2019 bots start appearing in european servers
-November comes and creators. tf, a european based community updates group with servers all over the US and Europe, launches
-Tyler puts out videos promoting it since he's a member of creators. tf
-bots become more commonplace all over Europe and Asia
-Tyler continues to make monthly videos about how tf2 is dead
-Source code leak happens due to VNN discord server "drama" and creators dot tf and Tyler immediately say it's not safe to play tf2 outside of their "secure" servers
-creators dev team implodes over drama, Tyler wanted to have full control of the team and leaves when he isn't accepted as leader
-noticeable dip in bots right after
-goes on to promote TF2CLASSIC, another community mod
-Valve pushes anti bot measures
-Reports Open Fortress, a dm mod, to Valve for copyright because he wasn't as involved with the team
that's the timeline so far, also
-Made a video where he blames the players who run into bots because Valve supposedly implemented a Trust System like in csgo (link to reupload)
-Has made no effort to research and find whoever's behind the bots, and has mostly ignored the whole situation aside from blaming players and reporting on Valve's fixes
-Valve would have hardware and IP banned the bots by now, meaning is behind them has regular funding for VPNs and hardware spoofing
makes sense? the team fortress community needs to wake up realize the biggest problem they face is right under their noses!