This game at one point in time was my favorite game in existance. It had a great appeal, great fanbase, and great support from the company that made it.

Now? Not so much. Valve got greedy and started shoving unnecessary ♥♥♥♥ into it and didn't take anything the community requested into account.

They stopped producing their own content and now they just outsource all their work to the community to make for them, and even though they don't make any of the new ♥♥♥♥ that goes into the game they take a huge ass cut out of it.

They also added in a competitive system which just makes me even more depressed at the state of the game and the sheer lack of care Valve as a whole has for this game I spent 4 years of my life supporting.

I seriously do not recommend this game. The golden years are far gone. :(


Adding in a further rant from the comments:

I have absolutely no burnout of the gameplay itself. Overwatch has pretty similar hectic gameplay and I've played the hell out of it the last 3 months. I come into TF2 expecting to have a good time and I look around and I have a competitive system with no placement matches, meaning whenever I'm put into a "competitive" game I'm essentially faced with a free-for-all cluster♥♥♥♥. I'm also faced with casual, which is also a free-for-all cluster♥♥♥♥ because of the area-denial of the engineer and the 15 people who just installed the game. One of the actual havens where I could play with players of my actual skill level, community servers, was directly killed by Valve, so where the ♥♥♥♥ am I supposed to go now? (Answer: Somewhere else, and I have.)

Also does not help that valve overall does not give a flying ♥♥♥♥ about TF2. There's a small group of people who come in occasionally to ♥♥♥♥ with the TF2 community and port in ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ from their other games (why the ♥♥♥♥ do we have skins, the weapon market is a cluster♥♥♥♥ enough as it is without them) and occasionally add in community items so they can milk as much as possible from that cash cow.... but nothing really else.

At one point there was also a sense of "magic" to their updates. Hell, even EotL had that magic despite the disappointment it was. What did we get this year? A halloween event with nothing really new other than a couple community maps (for the second year in a row), the disappointing Meet Your Match which we found took absolutely no one's suggestions into consideration, and at the tail end of last year we got Tough Break which probably had the last drop of any sort of the past magic that I had come to expect from TF2 updates.

So there. Here's my rant.

2019 edit: Won't somebody think of the small indie devs at Valve?!?!?!!?11!! I will say, MvM is still fun and I come back occasionally to play it, but most of it was composed before all the people who cared about the game left to go work on dota or eat cookies in the Valve snack room all day. Since this review was released, Valve did all kinds of crazy stuff. They made the stock UI EVEN WORSE and they added these dumb surveys between matches.... saying they needed "more data" to balance and fix the game. NO, you ignorant ♥♥♥♥♥. You don't need """more data""", you need to actually pay attention to the game and what its players want. You need to actually PLAY the game... with you know... normal people.. to see how things interact with one another. That was another big thing about Valve taking over the game with a casual matchmaking system. They've shown with CSGO that they can manage the game well, but TF2? nope. ♥♥♥♥ us I guess. We'll watch the game slowly decline as people realize this game is dead. The economy will die, and we will once again mourn our loss as Valve moves on to create smash hits such as Artifact 2 and Virtual Reality Demo #57.

2024 Edit: Most of my opinions still stand lol #FixTF2