As far as I remember, I first encountered TF2 in late 2015 at a net cafe; someone had left TF2 open on their computer. If I recall correctly it was the final weeks of the "Invasion Update" and TF2 completely blew my mind. Those were great times. Now it's 2026, and TF2 is full of the dumbest and freakiest people, newbie players who sabotage wins or do nothing in casual, autistic people who use the Gas Passer in a great mode like MVM and only think about the end-of-match reward, pedophile admins on community servers, endlessly stupid shrill-voiced kids, and morons waiting for a major update to an 18-year-old game. Yes, that's the pathetic state of TF2 years later.

Anyway, let's look at the crap Valve has done over time: the bot crisis that was fixed after 8 years (and it was fixed by an off-contract Valve employee who basically did it as a favor!), Eric Smith—the last developer of TF2—scratching his ass and jerking off instead of actually creating content for the game, unbalanced weapons for 8 years, new maps added with bugs every year, the garbage cosmetics added to the game, casual mode being broken for a long time, the promised MVM update that was probably dumped on some interns and hasn't arrived for almost a year now, and Valve seeing TF2 as nothing more than a money-milking machine by adding cosmetic cases every year.

Was all that nonsense not enough? Let's also take a look at the TF2 economy, which is managed by North Koreans. We have bot owners who hold market monopolies, absolute douchebags who provide bot services, Chinese traders who manipulate the market just to earn a few more pennies, TF2 keys that suffer an economic crash every single year, and that guy who traded his dog for a piece of pixel—ahhh yes, YOU, I hope you die. Despite all of this, fat-assed Gabe Newell has made millions without lifting a single finger and continues to do so.

Finally, let's look at the shıt the TF2 community has spewed: TF2bers advertising gambling, ugly cosmetics made just for money, AI-generated skins that make my eyes bleed, people trying to force their shıtty OCs into TF2, new maps looking more like Overwatch than TF2's actual art design, TF2 Emporium monopolizing the workshop and being responsible for 90% of the items in every single seasonal update, subhuman animals who have gay and necrophilia fetishes about the mercenaries, random TF2 videos by 10-subscriber kids that constantly pop up on my YouTube feed which literally make me want to blow my head off, poor Russians who scam for 5 ref, and gay furry femboys or communist kiddos on the servers. There's so much more to say, but words fail me.

I hope you enjoy playing it, because I and many others don't enjoy it anymore.

Good luck playing TF2 in 2026.