Team Fortress 2: Oops, all cheaters edition.

A quick google search provides downloads for various cheats from a whole lineup of different developers. Nothing is easier than downloading a cheat client and going undetected for months, if not years. Since Valve has stopped putting even the smallest amount of care into the game, and bots haven't been an real issue for nearly 2 years now, people bask in the delusion that TF2 is "fixed".

It's not. The removal of quickplay and addition of matchmaking has closed the door for any aspiring community server hosts, as only the official Valve servers have any sort of matchmaking mechanic, and opened so many more doors for cheaters to flourish and cheat developers to make some serious revenue.

It is virtually impossible to find a single casual game that doesn't have at least one blatantly aimbot and ESP using individual, and a whole bunch of bystanders who refuse to do anything about it, no matter how damning the evidence.

Since the official competitive mode is also both completely dead since shortly after launch, and free for anyone to join, provided they've spent enough time idling, this mode, too, is full of cheaters.

But the community seems to shrug all of this off as a minor inconvenience, as long as more and more workshop slop content gets added to the game for them to spend money on. Valve continues profiting without doing anything to earn it, cheat devs make a good living with Valve not even bothering to send cease & desists, and the game that I once fell in love with is now merely a pile of rotting remains of what it once was.

If you're thinking about picking this game up, feel free to give it a try yourself. But don't go in expecting the experience Youtubers 10 years ago had. Just like the world has become a much worse place since then, so has Team Fortress 2.