-more than a decade ago, item farmers were punished when idling exploits were fixed by having their ill-gotten items confiscated. Valve, being the :galaxy-brain:s they are, rewarded non-exploiters with angel halo hats- which resulted in anyone wearing it to get immediately banned from certain servers, if not verbally harassed.
-pyro is an lgbt punching bag
-Competitive player shouted the Gamer word at a convention and harassed anyone that called him out.
-Valve discouraging people from modding their game by disabling mod usage across the board and people STILL defending the company. the game's entire "mannconomy" would collapse if everyone just switched to downloading anything they want, but Valve has succesfully conditioned an entire generation of crypto nerds.
I'm sure there's more that could be mentioned, but those seem to stick out.
Team Fortress 2 has shown up here a few times.
-more than a decade ago, item farmers were punished when idling exploits were fixed by having their ill-gotten items confiscated. Valve, being the :galaxy-brain:s they are, rewarded non-exploiters with angel halo hats- which resulted in anyone wearing it to get immediately banned from certain servers, if not verbally harassed.
-pyro is an lgbt punching bag
-Competitive player shouted the Gamer word at a convention and harassed anyone that called him out.
-Valve discouraging people from modding their game by disabling mod usage across the board and people STILL defending the company. the game's entire "mannconomy" would collapse if everyone just switched to downloading anything they want, but Valve has succesfully conditioned an entire generation of crypto nerds.
I'm sure there's more that could be mentioned, but those seem to stick out.