Let's dive into the unusual corporate hierarchy behind Valve, one of the most powerful game companies in the world, and explore both the complexities of their corporate hierarchy and it's impact on their games' developments.

We will explore the subject of how companies address people who cheat and exploit their games, the problem of the TF2 Bot crisis, and how Valve's corporate hierarchy makes this issue far more complicated than it needs to be...

In some ways, the TF2 Bot Crisis can be considered more of an inevitability than anything else...

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Chapter Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
3:36 Motivations behind Cheating, BotHosting, and general Toxicity
7:22 Developer's Role in Maintaining Order
11:37 Valve's Corporate Hierarchy ("Welcome to Flatland")
24:21 Why Valve does not fix TF2
29:21 Solutions to the Bot Crisis
37:10 Conclusion
40:22 Outro

Music used:
0:05 Welcome to New Eridu [Zenless Zone Zero]
1:57 Character Select, Remix by SilvaGunner [Super Smash Bros.... technically...] (   • Character Select (Extended Version) ...  )
37:10 4 Minutes Before Death (Variation) [Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective]
37:13 Welcome to New Eridu [Zenless Zone Zero]
40:15 Reincarnation (2023) [Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective Remastered]