How is the FF community?

[GenghisTron]

Hey there, I haven't loaded up my Steam in quite a while, and last time I did, the FF community was abysmal, no one was in pub servers, and it seems the leagues were paying more attention to TF2. Recently I re-quit WoW, and have some free-time and would like to get back into TFC/FF, but I have to buy a new Steam account, since I forgot my login, and before I do, I'd like to know if it's worthwhile? I see the forums are still fairly active, and even the Catacombs has some activity in the FF forum, but how is it in-game? Are there decent pubs, lots of variety, skill map servers, etc?

Also, are people still playing TFC? I wouldn't mind hopping around in some pubs and tossing around some pipes to entertain myself.

Any help is greatly appreciated.