Yesterday,Funko Fusiondeveloper 10:10 Games announced that it would be collaborating withValve’s popular first-person shooter,Team Fortress 2. The collaboration will see all Steam players receive special Heavy, Scout, Medic, and Engineer characters for free as a thank-you from the development team.
Funko Fusion is currently set to release on September 13th for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC, but Team Fortress 2 fans are already expressing their frustrations about the collaboration over on various social media.
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Earlier this year,Team Fortress 2 was hit with a barrage of negative reviewson Steam after fans had decided they’d had enough of the game’s cheating problem. A mass protest was started by players, with a select group of individuals starting a website known as ‘save.tf’, where players could sign a petition that would then be sent directly to Valve. The petition is now closed, but managed to amass a massive 343,711 signatures.
“For the past five years, Team Fortress 2 has become nearly unplayable,” the website states. “The game’s official servers have been overrun by hordes of cheating aimbots while Valve has remained steadfast in their refusal to adequately tackle the problem. This lack of developer interference has thrown the game into a state of turmoil with seemingly no end in sight.”
While Valve has not directly responded to the petition as of yet, there were multiple instances that suggestedValve was carrying out a mass ban waveon potential cheaters late last week. However, fans still aren’t happy, and the new collaboration with Funko Fusion is only adding salt to the wound.
Team Fortress 2’s Funko Fusion Collaboration Has Fans Fuming
Over on Reddit and X (formerly Twitter), fans are outraged at the lack of support Team Fortress 2 is receiving. “TF2 update anywhere else but TF2,“one userquipped. Whileanother said, “Just when you thought it was safe, just when TF2 looked like it was going to start to recover,” seemingly referencing the reset ban wave.
Some users even started to speculate that Valve’s recent ban wave was to make itself look better when the Funko Fusion collaboration was announced. “So this is it… this is why they cared,” theuser said on X. Another Reddit user speculated the same thing, saying, “I feel like Valve fixed the game just so they could do this without causing a riot.”
“It’s probably not the intention but this is, like, deeply insulting,” Reddit userCrummTheDummsaid.
But not everyone took this as a bad sign, with certain Team Fortress 2 fans feeling a little more hopeful. “Somethin tells me Valve may be picking TF2 up again. we are so fucking back,” auser on Redditsaid.
Do you think this means Valve is once again invested in Team Fortress 2? Or should fans take this as an insult? Let us know in the comment section below.
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