Team Fortress 2 players are not loving the announcement of TF2 DLC for Funko Fusion instead of, y’know, TF2: ‘Genuinely would rather bots continue to overrun the game than this happen’

As Team Fortress 2 players continue begging Valve to take a more active role in dealing with the game’s botting problems, it is maybe not a good look that the first new Team Fortress 2-related DLC announced in years is for another game entirely (via Wario64). And not just any other game: it’s Funko Fusion, which answers the question “What if you made something like Lego Star Wars but out of garbage?”

I’m an avowed Funko Pop hater—I truly despise the way the brand has taken thousands of creative works from across decades of pop culture and smooshed all of them together into the same ugly, beady-black-eyed cheap plastic paean to blandness. I am deeply skeptical that Funko Fusion will offer the “uniquely authentic, irreverent humor” it promises as it recreates scenes from famous films with its ugly dolls. But there’s a certain extra salt in the wound element to this TF2 Funko Fusion reveal at a time when the game’s community still feels like they have to shout just to keep the shooter alive on a drip feed of life support updates.