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Chicken posted...

it really was. I put 2000 hours into that game, and the vast majority of that time was spent on a modified 2fort map on a specific community server. When they fucked over community servers, I knew the game was dead to me. That 2fort server was online for a good while after that but it was always empty. I remember joining and just walking around in complete silence hoping the server would fill up, but any time a person would join, they'd leave after a couple minutes.

I used to make that effort for some maps. There was always this endless game on the Cyberpunk map with no win condition so people would just show up and fight over the disco room. I liked bringing one or two people there to mess around and hope other people joined.

Matchmaking really was the point things started speeding downhill (Though you could argue Mannconomy or the F2Ps were the beginning of the end.)
Even in 2014 you could feel the game's identity diminishing from it. Everyone had the same few binds that they probably spammed in every other game. I'd attribute it to a few other things but matchmaking hit TF2 the hardest.