Team Fortress 2 is one of the many multiplayer games that shaped the video game. Through its open modes and a large community, it was able to help propel Steam as a platform. But today, several years after its release, it is falling to certain death according to the players.
A virtual protest to ask Valve to update Team Fortress 2
A service game before its time, Team Fortress 2 offers a wide assortment of game modes coupled with extensions offered to the community. With a cosmetics store as an economic model, it is still holding up after 15 years (11 since its transition to “Free2Play”). This one can even boast of competing with more recent releases.
However, if Valve was often praised in its infancy for its proximity and its listening to community expectations, the current state of “TF2” clearly shows a total lack of interest. Since 2017, there are no longer any content updates outside of pageantry. Worse, since 2020, no patch has been released, leaving the game abandoned despite a fairly active player base. Team Fortress 2 also suffers like many from a violent bot incursion, greatly detracting from the overall experience.
As part of this, the community has set itself the impossible challenge of breaking the giant. Through a large campaign on social networks and petitions, the objective is to win would only be a look from the editor. A widely shared peaceful demonstration, but so far ineffective. The official Twitter account remains silent, probably definitively abandoned since July 20202. In a more open context, this situation once again shows the relative fragility of the conservation of video game heritage.