TF2: Nobody's Home

We will be making the data used in this video public soon! Edit: here it is github.com/megascatterbomb/tf2PlayerCount Edit #2: A criticism I'm seeing is "it isn't profitable to harvest cases/items, therefore there can't be tens of thousand of idle bots." You're right. On paper, it isn't profitable, but for some reason they still do it. I don't know why, nor do I have the full picture. There's some element/elements to this I couldn't find. It could be part of something grander, or bot hosters could being doing this simply because they can, who knows. I don't know the reason, all I know is that it's happening.

Sorry guys I accidentally left my 50 thousand computers idling on the main menu of TF2

I have "voice communication is not avaliable for this account" and i must scream

Never ask... ... a man, his salary. ... a woman, her age. ... a TF2 player, to select all squares with bicycles.

Dang. He just cut off the copium the community has been taking for years.

2012: Mann vs Machine 2024: Machine

i cant believe tf2 predicted tf2 being overrun with bots thats crazy man

All those jokes about TF2 being on life support is true after all. TF2 activity graph indeed looks like constant cardiac arrest...

"no one talks about the bots!" there is no war in ba sing se

Name one other game community where ranking virtual skins is toxic and problematic behaviour lmao

People called me crazy when i pointed this out a few years ago

Why does this feel like someone examining a sick animal?

I thought I was gonna get a quick description of TF2‘s declining popularity, turns out I got a extensive lesson in data analytics

This video is the 9/11 for tf2 players

No wonder Pyrocynical comes back to TF2 on streams, the player numbers there are VERY inflated...

" To anyone who calls this 'treadmill work' [BLEEP] off- " Couldn't have put it better myself, Zest. I hate hearing that phrase, because even outside of jobs and careers, pretty much EVERYTHING can be boiled down to that. One could even call shaving their face or legs "treadmill work" because its just gonna grow back, or mowing the lawn, or changing the oil in your car. It's called MAINTENANCE. If you take no effort to maintain something at all, it falls into disrepair. People seem to think these days that the requirement of maintenance is a sign of a bad product when that's just not true. They seem to think that something is only "good" if it runs all the time, with absolutely zero maintaining work done upon it. This is factually incorrect. Most high-end machines and systems require constant maintenance. There's probably not gonna be a quick-fix solution where we "solve" this issue overnight but unless massive amounts of research and development are done in the effort of anti-botting systems (maybe AI-learning to track and ban bot clients but idk) then every single website and game in the world will become openly weak to botnets and botters.

I watch a lot of horror shit on youtube and I dont think any of them filled me with nearly as much dread as this video has.

in just 9 hours, twice as many people have watched this video as there are people concurrently playing tf2.

Dead internet theory

JERMA WAKE UP THEY HIT THE PENTAGON