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Re:In esports media, layoff season is in full swing by weberer on Friday July 15, 2022 @04:52AM (#32106167)
Like 2 days ago.

>TF2 got destroyed due to matchmaking killing of community servers

Community servers are still there. I can still pretty much always find a full server on whatever map I feel like playing on at the time.

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Re:In esports media, layoff season is in full swing by bob1029 on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:05AM (#32106221)
This has been my experience as well. I don’t even mind their matchmaking thing if I’m feeling lazy and want to wind up in a particular vanilla map set without thinking too hard.

The custom maps and community servers are as strong as ever, IMO. Check out the player statistics on steam.

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Re:In esports media, layoff season is in full swing by gs17 on Friday July 15, 2022 @09:30AM (#32107980)
> Check out the player statistics on steam.

Those are very misleading. The teamwork.tf stats show a lot fewer players (still a decent number) actually playing on servers, and you can verify those by adding up the player counts on servers manually.

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Re:In esports media, layoff season is in full swing by rightbyte on Friday July 15, 2022 @06:37AM (#32106717)
Hmm ... maybe I were unlucky when I checked. After some master server crash or something.
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