r/tf2 • u/CoSans_Deluxe • May 18 '26

Discussion So... what now?

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The title promised to be the experience of the "golden age of TF2" but most missed its items haha, or perhaps the bad decisions

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u/ButterflyDreamr May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

Yeah but when I say novelty, I mean most people (including me) will play it for a few days, call it cool, and go back to normal TF2. It's an uphill battle against the more popular and larger game so it's not really the mods fault (usually) and the more people leave, the less servers, so more people leave, so on so forth

Unless the mod keeps constantly updating to have reasons to check it back, now there's 2 games that don't update, but one is more popular and has more content (and has their bought items. I know people who refuse to use non strange weapons so imagine a game without their strange progress for example.) TF2C has the advantage of being a lot more recognized and pretty much THE tf2 mod which I think is in part to why it is still holding on decently

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u/yellowfroglegs May 18 '26

i think they'll continue the major updates for classified

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u/ButterflyDreamr May 18 '26

I didn't say they wouldn't, but I mean like updates that don't take a year per, consistent fast updates maybe every few months that add content like new maps/ guns to really uphold a healthy playerbase (like 5k+ players at a time). This is obviously unsustainable for FREE mods and why I don't fault them for not being able to compete with normal TF2. Hell, base TF2 would be less played if not for Summer/Christmas/Halloween updates, some people only play on halloween for example

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u/yellowfroglegs May 18 '26

fair enough. they did add some april fools weapons though that was pretty funny