Team Fortress 2 is perhaps the best Multiplayer PvP game of all time. Team Fortress 2 is responsible for setting many positive precedents for the gaming industry throughout its venerable 17-year run. Where most games would be long dead with official servers having all but been shut down, TF2 continues to stand the test of time. No other game in recent memory has had such a strong cultural impact in the mainstream (see: The rise and popularity of GMOD animations and eventually SFM Animation).

However, this will not last at the current state of the game.
Through 7 years of neglect and incompetence, Valve has decided to abandon this game and its community despite its massive success and potential.

So what does Valve do instead?
They make a soulless, over-saturated Overwatch-DOTA clone that goes against all the important design lessons learned throughout TF2's development period and long history of success.

I have played this game constantly since I started in 2010 on three separate Steam Accounts. But the truth is simply that this game's magical experience is no longer obtainable due to a massive amount of subversion through cheaters and other malicious criminal elements. Unfortunately, this isn't even the only Valve game that suffers from this problem--CS2, and even CSGO before it, struggled immensely with a lack of commitment, communication, and consistency that Valve used to offer its community-- Something that defined it's once golden reputation. Valve's continued neglect of its passionate, dedicated community can be interpreted no other way than as a direct insult. Especially when Valve decides to pursue areas and fields that run in staunch opposition to the market niche it has carved out for itself. We didn't support Valve so that it could become the next Ubisoft or Electronic Arts.

At this point, I cannot recommend the game any longer until Valve decides to stop acting like a high school clique and starts behaving like professional developers again. I would rather they cease all official support of this game and give it to the community rather than let it sit and continue to collect revenue while softly permitting the illegal harassment, exploitation, and distribution of malicious software designed to threaten the physical, digital, and financial security of its customers.
Here's to Fixing TF2!

Team Fortress 2 is perhaps the best Multiplayer PvP game of all time. Team Fortress 2 is responsible for setting many positive precedents for the gaming industry throughout its venerable 17-year run. Where most games would be long dead with official servers having all but been shut down, TF2 continues to stand the test of time. No other game in recent memory has had such a strong cultural impact in the mainstream (see: The rise and popularity of GMOD animations and eventually SFM Animation). However, this will not last at the current state of the game. Through 7 years of neglect and incompetence, Valve has decided to abandon this game and its community despite its massive success and potential. So what does Valve do instead? They make a soulless, over-saturated Overwatch-DOTA clone that goes against all the important design lessons learned throughout TF2's development period and long history of success. I have played this game constantly since I started in 2010 on three separate Steam Accounts. But the truth is simply that this game's magical experience is no longer obtainable due to a massive amount of subversion through cheaters and other malicious criminal elements. Unfortunately, this isn't even the only Valve game that suffers from this problem--CS2, and even CSGO before it, struggled immensely with a lack of commitment, communication, and consistency that Valve used to offer its community-- Something that defined it's once golden reputation. Valve's continued neglect of its passionate, dedicated community can be interpreted no other way than as a direct insult. Especially when Valve decides to pursue areas and fields that run in staunch opposition to the market niche it has carved out for itself. We didn't support Valve so that it could become the next Ubisoft or Electronic Arts. At this point, I cannot recommend the game any longer until Valve decides to stop acting like a high school clique and starts behaving like professional developers again. I would rather they cease all official support of this game and give it to the community rather than let it sit and continue to collect revenue while softly permitting the illegal harassment, exploitation, and distribution of malicious software designed to threaten the physical, digital, and financial security of its customers. Here's to Fixing TF2!