Team Fortress 2 is now almost 7 years old. That means it's player base has also aged. Those who played it often in high school/college when they had plenty of spare time might have graduated, gotten jobs and something called a "life" and simply gotten too busy to play TF2 on a regular basis. This, together with the release of new FPS games like Interstellar Marines, and plenty of MOBA games to virtually kill others in a competitive or casual manner (including Valve's very own Dota 2), might account for the slow but steady decline of concurrent TF2 players. It's still having it's occasional ups, but I think we'll see a downward trend on the whole.
This is just a hypothesis of course, but I'm speaking from the experience of myself and my friends, who used to play TF2 a lot but don't anymore, as much fun as it used to be. When we have time to play a game in the evenings it's usually Dota 2 nowadays. On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Robert Paulson <thepauls...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you fking serious? The kind of players that play FPS like TF2 have very > little overlap with mmos. If you have actually watched player counts like I > do, you would know this. The release of Mists of Pandaria and Guild Wars 2 > pretty much had 0 impact on the TF2 player count. > > The TF2 collapse has been happening since February and Wildstar just > released 2 days ago... > > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Lyrai <lyr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> There's Wildstar, which just came out, and is an MMO. Final Fantasy 14 is >> apparently doing very well, and just had a minor content patch. Both of >> those are things I'd blame for loss of player count, before this Chicken >> Little screaming. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > -- Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
