TFC Player loss.. because of steam?

[Jiggles]

Yeah, Ravalin proved Valve hadn't forgotten about TFC

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Originally Posted by Nezumi

I think teles probably boosted TFCs popularity. Those and the new models were a good sign that Valve hadn't completely forgotten about TFC.

In fact, teles made me pick up the game after basically not playing for a year or two.

The new models have been around way before steam.

Originally Posted by Jayman

Stem DID NOT kill tfc.
Bottom line, stream is no more to blame in the decline of the game than the hardcore players, server admins, bots, other games coming along ect ect

Very true, well said mate.

Originally Posted by Jiggles

Yeah, Ravalin proved Valve hadn't forgotten about TFC

Yes it's a really popular map..

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Steams awkwardness atleast initially proved very probalamatic early on. And as the other guy said, the new models came about 2 years before steam (AFAIK).

I dont see, honestly how hardcore players or admins had hardly anything to do with the decline of TFC. It was a very small minority that actually gave problems to the general public, and those amongst other hardcorer's knew was dicks

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Originally Posted by Player

Recently I have seen many new players appearing and revisiting TFC servers. If anything, the population of TFC is increasing--slowly; from what I have seen, anyway.

I think this may be partly to do with Valve releasing information about TF2 in the update news and people checking the original game out to see what it plays like (cause hey, it's cheap!)

I don't think Steam killed TFC though, I remember when Steam was brand new and I chucked the key in and got TFC 1.6. So much better than TFC 1.5 but had troubles playing it due to Steam being overloaded at the time and random errors I kept getting. Teleporters are fun though, good times.... I stopped playing TFC for whatever reason though and haven't gone back to it. I'll definately be messing with Fortress Forever though & TF2 looks cool although they still haven't released any gameplay screenshots/footage.