Welp, I'm glad they're still working, and I'm glad I'm wrong in that they didn't abandon it.
Also I think this is the most communicative Valve has been with an update since 2016.
It's been one decade since the "Meet your match" update came out into TF2 during 2016. Most players call it the worst update to ever exist since it tried to turn TF2 into a more competitive game.
Sadly the main purpose of the update failed.
#tf2#teamfortress2
There's something rather poetic about Valve dropping the summer update and the matchmaking system breaking, again, on the 10 year anniversary of Meet Your Match.
A few of the warpaints are nice though.
The price increases absolutely did not help, but another issue is how the entry level consumer market is no longer being catered to. How are kids (who grow up to be lifelong fans) supposed to get connected to a nearly $1k console their parents have to buy? No one is getting that.
For the first time since January 14, 2014. You can now play Pokémon Dream World again, along with tuck in new Pokémon, receive items, and wake-up Pokémon!
Now enjoy this demonstration:)
Welcome to the age verification era! 🔞 🔍
Here's why you should be concerned
❌ Risks your privacy & security
❌ Threatens anonymity & freedom of speech
❌ It's often ineffective
We explore in today's article 👉 https://t.co/jRJYAUqKGb
#onlinesafetyact#ageverification
You might’ve noticed a familiar face showing up in profile pictures all over the internet lately…
Clippy, the old Microsoft Office paperclip.
Here’s how it became a symbol for anti-Big Tech sentiment:
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Reading the replies on this is unfathomably insane. We've entered the revisionist history era for the bot crisis, and it took what, a year? For people to give it a pass or say "it wasn't that bad."
If any other game went through what TF2 did, for as long, those developers would not be given the pass like this. It's laughably pathetic how hard people lick Valve's boots.
BREAKING CENSORSHIP NEWS:
There's another United States Bill in our Congress called "SCREEN Act" not to be mistaken for the "Kids Online Safety Act"
If passed it will require full Age Verification all in the name of "Protecting Kids" to access Online
https://t.co/p4r7p8nQVV
Today, I streamed TF2 for around two hours. 1 hour and 11 minutes was spent queuing, and 54 minutes playing. How on earth is this acceptable?
This was never a problem before meet your match, back when we had quickplay, but now we're just dealing with this after every update.