Heavy's Sandvich
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TF2 is like the simpsons for me. The good days are a distant memory
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Team Fortress 2 Smissmass Update OR: Not the Pyro Update
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TheRedSnifit
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They're really trying to avoid rolling back all the changes they made in MYM.
balladofwindfishes
Member
The Demoman drunken stagger taunt is pretty great
QuantumSquid
Member
People still play TF2 because it's a free to play game on Steam that isn't total garbage.
When I say it's dead, I don't mean nobody's playing it. I mean nobody's thinking about it anymore. Nobody takes it seriously anymore. Nobody really gives a shit about it these days, it's old news.
You can say it's still popular because it has like 60,000 players or whatever, but consider this: Counter-Strike Global Offensive ISN'T free-to-play, and it has 10 times as many players as TF2.
When I say it's dead, I don't mean nobody's playing it. I mean nobody's thinking about it anymore. Nobody takes it seriously anymore. Nobody really gives a shit about it these days, it's old news.
You can say it's still popular because it has like 60,000 players or whatever, but consider this: Counter-Strike Global Offensive ISN'T free-to-play, and it has 10 times as many players as TF2.
Except for the millions of people who play it every month.
QuantumSquid
Member
There are half a million people playing CSGO right now TODAY, and 800,000 people playing Dota. I don't find TF2's numbers impressive when a $15 game and an insanely difficult-to-learn game can pull in orders of magnitude more players every day than a F2P game can.
My friends list on Steam is enormous and it used to be dominated by people playing Team Fortress 2. Now it's all CSGO and Dota, with some GTA V, H1Z1 and random other games sprinkled in for good measure.
It has been on the decline for years now.
TheRedSnifit
Member
CS:GO and DotA2 are literally the only two games on Steam with higher playerbases than TF2, lmao. I guess every other multiplayer game is dead too.
Permanently A
Junior Member
Honestly its been nearly a decade of updates at this point. I don't think anyone, not Valve or the playerbase, are happy with the current running on fumes updates. It seems like they'll do their best to fix matchmaking, drop the pyro update and then say they're done with TF2.
Valve has already confirmed they're working on a heavy update, along with a Jungle themed update. Not only that they are working towards growing competitive TF2.
Besides all that announced content you can't just drop support for a game that has an in game economy, especially when that in game economy links to your other games with in game economies.
balladofwindfishes
Member
TF2 makes WAYYYYYY too much money for them to drop it any time soon. Plus they have update plans for next year and want to grow TF2 competitive.
QuantumSquid
Member
They did release it for consoles... when the Orange Box came out like 10 years ago.
The game is 10 years old, people are going to get burned out on it. Even a few years from now the games your friends are playing aren't going to be the same, some will have moved on from CSGO and DOTA2. That's just something that's going to happen with a game as a service.
QuantumSquid
Member
Counter-Strike has been basically the same since its inception in 1999 and it's still incredibly popular.
Valve has been treating TF2 like garbage for a while now and people realized this and left.
I will gift you a game of your choice on Steam if competitive TF2 ever takes off.
Diablohead
Member
I reinstalled TF2 the other weekend after years of not playing and it feels so different now, there's matchmaking and a ranking up system, you can still server browse thankfully.