TF2 is DEAD. And its ok.

[Medic!]

Here it is boys and girls, the 7th comics is out. And by all means, its fantastic. We have waited so many years... and yet. The TF2 is finnally dead. If the comics doesn't confirm it, it heavily implyies it. I think its joover, its was good while it lasted, it was an honor to be with you all this whole time and i will never forget it. Lets wish ourselfs a happy Smissmas and a happy New Year and remember it as the best time of our lives. Besides..... "You wana live forever?"

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Who killed TF2?

[Tutu 🤍™🖤 ~^^)]

Originally posted by Medic!:

"You wana live forever?"

Yes?

[Fireschlong #2Broke4MannUp]

As a digital archaeologist, I discourage the misuse of the term "dead" when it comes to TF2. It waters down the magical places that are actual dead/forgotten media.

Copypasta aside, calling TF2 dead is an exaggeration. They have merely ended the story with an epilogue. The game itself is going nowhere for now. Nothing ever happens after all.

[k750i]

avi.nope

[ebes]

Originally posted by Medic!:

Here it is boys and girls, the 7th comics is out. And by all means, its fantastic. We have waited so many years... and yet. The TF2 is finnally dead. If the comics doesn't confirm it, it heavily implyies it. I think its joover, its was good while it lasted, it was an honor to be with you all this whole time and i will never forget it. Lets wish ourselfs a happy Smissmas and a happy New Year and remember it as the best time of our lives. Besides..... "You wana live forever?"

the water is boiling but the whistle isn't blowing, it's not dead, it's dying

[Shadow_The_Worm | Titan.TF]

The "dead game" term is much more dead and overdone on its own itself compared to anything it is used on. Sure, there are some genuinely "dead" games, but remember, games are NOT memes and shouldn't be treated as such. Dead memes are based on the fact that they aren't relevant at a given time and are just there cause "they are deemed funny for a certain given group".

Games, however, tend to face the related "dead" term being abused and overused to the point it loses its intended meaning and is used just for the sake of it.

I'm not sure if it is serious or a joke, but the only thing finished now is the side plot of the comics. The game itself is still alive and blooming.

[(っ● ‿ ●)っ]

you're a medic, can't you just revive it?

[BeebleBugg]

Dead? Hardly.

[GrandMaster]

The lore of the game had ended. The game will be fine.

[The Dank Lord [GER]]

70k players right now

"game is dead"

sure dude

[Psycho]

Originally posted by The Dank Lord GER:

70k players right now

"game is dead"

sure dude

yea lol it seems like a lot more people started playing after the comic came out

[Bandit]

as a digital archaeologist, your right

[shibe]

been dead way before the last comic dropped

[abirdwitharms]

I never understood dead, or atleast I have a different definition.

I leave the game for months, sometimes a year, but I know when I come back it is the exact same as when I left. In the next ten years this game will probably drop 10-15k concurrents, but it’s still gonna be the exact same and I’m gonna be ten years wiser.

In twenty years it’ll drop another 20k maybe, who knows what’ll happen to me, but i’m certain I’ll still remember the game.

In 50 years it will probably have lost support as Valve and steam have become an entirely different animal that I probably won’t even recognize. The servers dead and little glimmers of community backed servers that are all x100 with Pony skins on cp_orange-v230 will dance like tiny flames. But on my morning walk or train ride or whatever i’m riding my WALL-E hover chair in, I’ll probably cross paths with a guy who is wearing a little TF2 logo pin, a tattoo, a hat, or even just a fond memory they had, or the occasional slur, or obscene Decal Tool photo they happened to have scarred in their mind. Maybe they laughed about it as they walked past me.

Thats where it dies, with that person, the game dies with me. The game dies with you, and whoever you talked to about it long after it’s servers were lost and it became abandonware after Steam was shutdown and the new beast took over. You probably told them some nice stories, nice enough for them to carry the game with their life too.

You want to live forever. What a nice ending

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Its not dead, its "mostly" dead. Not getting worse, but not getting better because they might have run out of ideas at the moment. I think they should spend this time de-spaghettifying the code and attending to bugs and certain glitches in certain cosmetics.