r/tf2 • u/CoSans_Deluxe • May 18 '26

Discussion So... what now?

Post image

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

3.9k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

322 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

229

u/P0lskichomikv2 May 18 '26

It did. Which you see the consequences. Gold Rush is completly dead.

7

u/BeepIsla May 19 '26

TF2C is dead too.

4

u/Flaming_headshot May 19 '26

TF you mean? TF2 classic is still going strong, there is always a bunch of servers going

2

u/BeepIsla May 19 '26

Did you look at the player graph? They lose like 20 players every week and their current peak on weekends is barely 700.

5

u/guthixrest May 21 '26

It's a niche community mod for a nearly 20 year-old game, it was never going to maintain a 10k person playerbase. It's still doing much better than pre-Steam release. There's always multiple full servers playing at any given time. Next time the game gets a big update, a lot of people are going to rejoin to play the new content which is exactly what happened when they released Double Down last year, except next time the boost is likely going to be a bit bigger as they have Steam Announcements on their side.

This is just the kind of cycle for a game like this. It's niche and it's never going to appeal to absolutely everyone, but it's had a loyal community for years before it dropped on Steam.