2024 Update: While everything I said before stands, this is no longer acceptable. Valve, it's time to face your fears. #FixTF2

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First off, the game is great. No matter what genre games you like, you should try to play it for at least an hour. It has a plenty to offer, including variousg gamemodes, mods, communities, activities, tournaments and other participational things. Besides that it offers a vast variety of replayability. Winning a match makes you want to repeat that, just in a more flawless fashion. The learning curve for every class is beyond amazing! It takes a few tries to understand how a class works, it takes a few hours to understand how to use the classes pros to your advantage and what to avoid doing not to get punished for it's cons, however, it takes hundreds of hours, if not multiple years to master a class. As a person that has a very slow learning curve, I must admit I found it amazing to learn every class over the 9 years. I'm not extremely good at any specific class (sadly), because I spent way too much time wandering around trying to pick a main one.

Talking about updates... Well. Valve is doing a slow and steady job in terms of them. It gets updated here and there with minor tweaks, but usually takes about a year (at least at he moment) to receive a big update that would include something interesting. Something like big changes to items, the addition of new items and/or cosmetics, gamemodes. However it's alright. Whenever a big update goes live, it goes live like never before. The hype it has built usually makes it up, perhaps not in the way we expect it to, but it does. I must admit that the game is receiving less and less attention, however thatis happening so slow, that I can't see this game dying out in years. In the end, don't forget there is competetive that is not the in-game one. Visit ugc league forums, european team fortress 2 league and others. It's definitely the best part of Team Fortress 2 to me. I hope everyone reading this will at least once in their lifetime feel the thrill of fighting another team in a league in order to be the best!

Thanks Valve for making a game that can remain my favorite of a lifetime and never fall out of it's spot in over 8 years!

Edit years later: still best. foreva. (just want the steam badge)

2024 Update: While everything I said before stands, this is no longer acceptable. Valve, it's time to face your fears. #FixTF2 updated [h1][b]It's been thirteen years since I first got to touch this game, and I think it is more than the right time for me to give some advice and truth about the game to the upcoming players.[/b][/h1] [b]First off, the game is great. No matter what genre games you like, you should try to play it for at least an hour. It has a plenty to offer, including variousg gamemodes, mods, communities, activities, tournaments and other participational things. Besides that it offers a vast variety of replayability. Winning a match makes you want to repeat that, just in a more flawless fashion. The learning curve for every class is beyond amazing! It takes a few tries to understand how a class works, it takes a few hours to understand how to use the classes pros to your advantage and what to avoid doing not to get punished for it's cons, however, it takes hundreds of hours, if not multiple years to master a class. As a person that has a very slow learning curve, I must admit I found it amazing to learn every class over the 9 years. I'm not extremely good at any specific class (sadly), because I spent way too much time wandering around trying to pick a main one. Talking about updates... Well. Valve is doing a slow and steady job in terms of them. It gets updated here and there with minor tweaks, but usually takes about a year (at least at he moment) to receive a big update that would include something interesting. Something like big changes to items, the addition of new items and/or cosmetics, gamemodes. However it's alright. Whenever a big update goes live, it goes live like never before. The hype it has built usually makes it up, perhaps not in the way we expect it to, but it does. I must admit that the game is receiving less and less attention, however thatis happening so slow, that I can't see this game dying out in years. In the end, don't forget there is competetive that is not the in-game one. Visit ugc league forums, european team fortress 2 league and others. It's definitely the best part of Team Fortress 2 to me. I hope everyone reading this will at least once in their lifetime feel the thrill of fighting another team in a league in order to be the best! [h1]Thanks Valve for making a game that can remain my favorite of a lifetime and never fall out of it's spot in over 8 years![/h1] Edit years later: still best. foreva. (just want the steam badge)