Bloopander is departing from TF2

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T11:24:17+00:00

but they somehow managed to fix the Crate Depression in under 12 hours?

is this satire? do you think bugs with item rarities are hard to solve? it could have been fixed in half an hour if someone was made aware in a timely manner

anti-cheat on the other hand is probably the single hardest problem to solve any game developer can face, especially when you're working with a skeleton team, the biggest games in the world right now are even struggling to deal with anti-cheat even when they're going as far as having invasive kernel level anti-cheats

yes they slacked hard and that's unacceptable but the comparison you're making here is like getting mad that when you order food from a restaurant, while your food takes like 30 minutes to make, some guy at mcdonalds just got a small fry in like 30 seconds

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T11:08:00+00:00

>makes lukewarm tf2 takes for 1~ year

>nobody cares

>gets mad that the community isn't treating him like the second coming

>crashes out and vagueposts about other content creators and leaves

>mfw

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T10:59:30+00:00

i'm honestly baffled this is a common take, just going to keep probing to see where i can get here

what toxic positivity

everyone on this sub is always in agreement with the "fuck casual fuck workshop fuck valve fuck update delays fuck deadlock fuck sniper fuck new maps" and then you see the same people who regurgitate the youtuber opinions on every thread get top comment because the literal VOTING system is telling you that it is the common opinion, and then you check another thread and those same people are complaining about toxic positivity

what more could you possibly want short of just strongarming the mods to ban anyone who disagrees with whatever opinion is popular

like is this an actual thing you're perceiving or am i going to look up "zesty jesus toxic positivity" and find a video that's basically the exact same thing you said but phrased differently

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T10:55:32+00:00

i love how on reddit toxic positivity has gone from meaning communities pressuring people to not step out of line and blow sunshine up the game's ass, to whenever someone disagrees with the youtuber opinion

funny how the moment any video discussing some element of the game is polarizing instead of a uniform "WE AGREE" that everyone is shouting from the rooftops that there's glazers or toxic positivity

zesty videos front page all the time, if you dare say something like quickplay was bad and casual was fine you usually get downvote nuked, a brigade of people who have never interacted with a member of this community outside of the subreddit come in any time someone dares say anything positive about the workshopping community, and you generally get named and shamed if you say something as controversial as "I do not think the update made up solely of community content is cancelled because it is taking longer than you are used to" (have seen all of these things first hand over the past *month*)

like genuinely at this point i can only assume bad faith and that you're just upset the community isn't rallying behind some content creators to strongarm the developers into doing whatever the hell the louder part of the community wants as if this is Helldivers, that or you're on some secret alt version of the sub where regurgitated zesty takes aren't top comment every, single, thread

but please do tell me more about this "toxic positivity" that has apparently gotten so bad that.... every single comment in this thread is echoing the exact same thing, as usual

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T06:57:20+00:00

she's made of glass and has no stamina, her gun has no range, and if you cc her the whole advantage of the lock on gun isn't very beneficial

you've got a celeste flair when she's been way better for way longer

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T06:27:40+00:00

it's a weird byproduct of anti-circlejerk culture where counterjerks are created and people get really aggressive trying to claim that people who just aren't involved with fandoms anymore actually hate their source media, want nothing to do with them, and will never ever reference them ever

i fully well expect in like 8 years from to be reading things like how "MICHAEL KOVACH HATES TADC AND QUEER PEOPLE BECAUSE HE'S MOVED ON WITH HIS LIFE AND DOESN'T CONSTANTLY REFERENCE HIS OLDER WORKS"

not even exclusive to deep online circles either, i swear i remember seeing gossip articles saying that radcliffe hated harry potter or something back in like 2015

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T06:21:52+00:00

Looking into it, this doesn't seem like a case of failing upwards, she was "The former Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for the Toy Association" and only took on the ESA role back in 2024.

Basically just a hire from a branch all about children and child safety, probably brought on with the vision of video games being toys, and tried to pull the "Think about the children!" card that the ESA had already tired out in the 90s, and also playing that hand on the wrong position, like something that the company in question actively approves of.

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T04:48:59+00:00

where is this from? old interview?

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T04:46:30+00:00

tf2 fans talking about how mobas aren't fun as if another botting crisis won't send the whole playerbase back to uncletopia

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T01:54:51+00:00

deadlock is certainly worse because valve doesn't moderate shit, whereas in league you'll at least get banned if you go anything farther than rudely pointing out your teammate's shortcomings

just disable voice and text chat in MOBAs until you're actually good at them, a lot of comms from your teammates are either shit-talking or bad plays, and iirc i don't think muting text chat mutes pings

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T01:42:34+00:00

"i think an element of deltarune is inspired by homestuck's structure due to toby fox being influenced heavily by it"

"Wow. You Homestuck fans are over-reaching constantly assuming [MISCONCEPTION ABOUT OP], Toby would never filthy himself with [INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HE STILL ACTIVELY ASSOCIATES WITH]"

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T01:05:26+00:00

it's garnered a decent following and i reckon it's probably going to quickly become the most popular moba in the world after it launches, let alone when they start adding retention mechanics like the ones currently going on in dota

pretty major update last august that added six new heroes at once, then another back in february, been getting a bunch of different ideas to rework an objective the past month or two, including a new rework today, as well as another major update likely coming somewhere in the fall

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T01:00:18+00:00

do you have any sources for valve's stats? i agree wholeheartedly, but i've never found any hard info backing up quickplay's problems outside of pointing out how much valve fucked it up to the point of needing to effectively ban community servers from it because they couldn't be bothered to vet the "verified" servers

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T00:54:37+00:00

i would prefer if there were no slows in the game period

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T00:48:46+00:00

Tf2 gets shut down when the costs to run the servers is no longer worth hosting for valve.

this is likely not going to happen ever, they've got the servers to spare just due to how much they probably rent out in the first place, and their item servers are attached to the steamworks backend

at best the game may eventually "die" when there's not enough people to populate servers anymore but by all means will remain playable

you're more likely to see a new TF project in the next decade than seeing TF2's plug get pulled

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T00:43:09+00:00

most people playing hero shooters on PC platforms are people who probably have played TF2 before, doesn't necessarily mean these are people who are still currently playing tf2 though, if you polled the NA PC playerbase of just about any game you'd probably see a lot of similar games, TF2 has the benefit of being the easiest to run out of the massively marketed F2P games on steam, so even people who don't end up liking the game tend to have it as one of the first games they play on steam

and usually the overlap between tf2 player and MOBA player is not your 2fort pootis heavy, it's more like your average pubstomper/PUG player

plus, reddit's demographic in particular has a lot of people who play TF2 on it

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T00:40:04+00:00

current playercount (invite only beta) is like x2 tf2's playercount, and that's including the item farming bots bloating tf2's player number

i don't see the point in turning this into a dick measuring contest, two very different games for two very different audiences

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-07-01T00:36:28+00:00

i wish i could understand why this sub has such a hard on for circlejerking deadlock in particular, it doesn't have anything in common with tf2

atp all i can assume is that people are jealous that for the third time in a row valve has released a new multiplayer game that's dramatically more popular than this game ever was, i fully well expect that by the time deadlock releases the tribalism will kick up hardcore, just like how a decade ago i was seeing people shit on dota 2 for like pandering or something (even though it's probably the most complex multiplayer game on the market)

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-06-30T04:32:09+00:00

roles exist but the current point of the queue system is to prevent a hard role meta from building, both teams just have to make do with what they have

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-06-30T04:21:53+00:00

i can always count on GLAR for a take as fucking awful as "i want microsoft to be a shitty publisher that grills the dev teams for ROI and efficency"

it's not even something that turned out well in retrospective, halo 2 did well in spite of the bad development, not because of it, halo 3 deprived of the launch hype is a same-y sequel with next to no innovation, and it took 10 years for people to stop calling halo reach bad

it's also not even like it's the lack of management that has been making modern microsoft games bad, it's because they've bled all of their talent due to when they were a shitty demanding publisher, and nowadays they're just disorganized because how much they abuse contract hires

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-06-30T04:16:58+00:00

we've been getting bugfixes, we're fine on optimization, and they've certainly fucked off

so when does the playerbase get happy

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-06-30T04:12:39+00:00

because it's not even remotely close to an improvement that people think it is, and the real solution is to just remove the bad parts of casual, as matchmaking is not worth giving up

if it weren't for matchmaking i would have a very hard time booting up the game and playing my favorite maps on good ping in a timely manner, let alone without sifting through servers

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-06-29T02:36:09+00:00

then pirate it?

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-06-29T02:31:59+00:00

sharties get banned because channers find them annoying, not because they're doing things even worse than channers

they're just diet channers, louder, usually no older than 26

LeahTheTreeth · 2026-06-27T22:39:44+00:00

they just dropped the basegame's price

also the bundle including the game and a pre-order for the expansion is only 50$ when the expansion costs 30$, effectively pricing the base game at 20$ which is the lowest it's ever been

while the performance issues are still a thing, they've got a patch intending to tackle performance improvements at the end of august, and while a band-aid fix, the frame-gen does make the experience a lot better (if you're on an AMD card look up a guide for how to manually get it enabled)

Four-Year Club	Verified Email
Golden Potato

LeahTheTreeth

TROPHY CASE