...yes? I don't know what that podcast is on about. These games are very popular and still updated. TF2 was n particular has been updated several times in the past few weeks (https://www.teamfortress.com/?tab=updates) and has a healthy player count (https://steamcharts.com/app/440).

The situation has been fixed but it was a pretty big issue for multiple years and took a coordinated outcry from players to get Valve to properly address it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Fortress_2#Bot_accounts_a...