How TF2 Still Makes Millions (With No Updates)

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• als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Gambling, the answer is loot boxes.

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• Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Last update: December 23th, 2025.

  Yea, they’re probably making some point, but I’m not gonna bother watching if the thumbnail is already wrong

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  • Maven@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What the tf2 community considers an “update” is the updates with names.

    Every update of the last 9 years has been to celebrate a holiday or event and not actually a properly named update like Gun Mettle, Meet Your Match, Sniper vs Spy, Jungle Inferno, etc etc.

    Even checking thr history page on the website you can see that its just “Halloween” a bunch of times and then finally jungle inferno back in 2017: https://www.teamfortress.com/history.php

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  • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The updates are just turning on and off the seasonal things and adding community maps and stuff.

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    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not according to the patch notes though

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  • TeamTeddy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They mean specifically “major” updates, ever since 2017 after Jungle Inferno it’s just been cosmetic additions, bugfixes, and the yearly holiday events which are typically pretty big but not big enough to be considered major.

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  • missingno@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There hasn't been a major update since Jungle Inferno in 2017.

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• SolarPunker@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Everyone have a good word for Valve as a publishers but it’s sad to see some of the most talented game designers in the history publishing their last good game 14 years ago.

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  • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Half-Life Alyx came out in 2020 and was pretty good.

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  • themusicman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Deadlock is a fantastic game, albeit unreleased

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  • favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And what counts as a release these days is just some remaster of a game that was popular a decade or two ago.

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• TeamTeddy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The TF2 economy is so insane, whenever I get a glimpse at it it’s like a whole other world. One that I want to stay far, FAR away from.

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  • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I played 1000s of hours of tf2. The last time was probably like 6 years ago. I still get weekly friend invites on steam from people who only play counter strike and tf2. I know exactly why, and it’s weird.

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    • northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why?

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• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hol up, are the item servers back up?

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  • silverchase@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They were down?

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    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, intermittently for a while and then for at least a few months at one time.

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• B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I haven’t played TF2 in a long time. I’ve been following a mod called TF2 Classified which sounds interesting though so might jump on that when it’s released

  …steampowered.com/…/Team_Fortress_2_Classified/

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  • nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve been eyeballing this one for a while, along with OpenFortress. Also found Gold Rush today which seems to be EXACTLY what I’m looking for (and the things they’re avoiding are literally the reasons I stopped playing TF2 around 2011ish). Unfortunately the playercounts for these sorts of mods are abysmally low.

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