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Quoted from Sideshow

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I think you have delusions of grandeur. If the comp TF2 scene suddenly died, TF2 would be exactly as big as it is now. We are merely a drop in the ocean.

A quick search on youtube or google indicates at least 50% of the results for general tf2 terms being from competitive focused communities such as extv, teamfortress.tv, etf2l, comp.tf, sin youtube channel, etc…

I would rethink that statement, because in fact the competitive community had a huge influence in building and maintaining the community we have today, not mentioning that the big majority of resources out there like demo recorders, custom huds, configs, etc, were originated or made in the competitive community, and the entire community uses them.

We might be a small drop in the tf2 community, but it wouldn’t be where it is today if it wasn’t for the competitive community, so yes, in fact, valve owes a part of tf2 community success to the competitive community

Quoted from Admirable

We are a small drop of nitro fucking glycerine. BOOM!
You competitive scene apologists make me sick.
Don’t be afraid to act the cunt in life.
Nice guys finish last.

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Actually I think a fucking HUGE number of the people that play TF2 in publics today are because of competitive players. I don’t mean to say that most of those players are competitive or even ever considered playing it, but what I do mean to say is that videos from top competitive players and frag movies including those people getting hundreds upon thousands of views sometimes are almost definitely a massive reason for a lot of people thinking the game looks fun and joining.

That’s not even considering the amount of people that watch casts nowadays too and a lot of those people of course don’t talk in chat so you have no idea whether they’re new people finding the game or not. If there was nothing but public I very much doubt the game would have grown to this scale. It would have been big still of course but not quite in the same way.

A personal example is that when I was introduced to the game properly it was through the Auto-Aim video. I had played a free trial and experienced some public play but it hadn’t actually got me interested. Then someone goes and shows me the Auto-Aim video and a few others to follow it up and I was completely hooked. There’s no fucking way that there aren’t a tonne more people like me.

Quoted from Fuxx

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Auto-Aim, Reptile and Carnage fragmovies are what got me into TF2 and I know people who started playing TF2 specifically to join etf2l and compete so you’re not alone there.

I am one such person. But it was the iseries LAN that affiliated me on to you all.

Quoted from kzr_

because Valve is a shit developer company. They only care about $$$, so they develop a game until it’s maximal profit point and then they move to the next thing. They did it to cs 1.6, css, Half-life, TF2 and next will be dota2 and cs:go. If they cared about the people that gave them that $139M they would listen more to the community and do better things.

By the way, they had some good updates this past year, like the two cities update. When they do it good, we gotta praise them.

Im happy with them, and I have a completely different idea about Valve, I think they manage to maintain their quality on several fronts. Im a Half-life fan boy and to be honest I dont care if it takes 7 years to release 1 single hl episode, the episodes are always amazing. In the community department, I think they are really close to it, tf2/left4dead are an example of that, even before the steam workshop.

Quoted from damneasy

Idk about you guys but valve imports hats and weapons that are made by community, they dont do as much in the competetive scene but they do care about their customers..

by being lazy and getting us to do their work???????? xdddd

Quoted from Scissors

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by being lazy and getting us to do their work???????? xdddd

truth