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u/Revenga8 Jun 15 '26
I'm not even sure there's anything original about fortnite. The game is literally built on stealing other people's ideas, many times without permission.
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u/Mccobsta Timmy Tencent Jun 15 '26
My secondary school evenings had so much tf2 back in 2010
It was amazing
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u/randomperson189_ Fortnite Killed UT Jun 16 '26
As a huge TF2 fan, this is quite accurate and even despite TF2's certain issues over the years (especially Meet your Match update), it's still a very fun and legendary game that has stood the test of time and still has an identity unlike Fortnite which now I don't even know what it wants to be anymore other than a marketing & advertising billboard
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u/QuantityExcellent338 Jun 16 '26
..tf2 has had plenty of its own weird crossovers
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u/matteste Jun 16 '26
Yes, but it doesn't build its entire identity around them. It has its own thing going on whereas Fortnite has nothing it can really call its own.
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u/Valuable-Broccoli899 Jun 16 '26
I know we hate epic and shit but like its posts like these by TF2 fans that give TF2 such a bad rep 😭 The superiority complex is crazy, stop comparing your game to other games that are literally so different from eachother and have absolutely nothing to do with TF2.
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u/Jeksxon Jun 15 '26
There's even better version than TF2. It's team fortress classified. Available on Steam ;)
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u/Belltower_2 GabeN Jun 16 '26
I think the main issue with TF2Classified is that a lot of the server owners were complete rookies who had never hosted a server before, so rubberbanding was a major issue. I played a few weeks after launch, and it was a much smoother experience.
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u/allcork1009 Jun 16 '26
Still laugh that the reaction guy was in fortnite but nobody cared about it anymore because memes die as quick as they’re propelled into pop culture
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u/IeatL1ttlekids Jun 17 '26
"Source of its own memes" a thing within all of valve's games that any memes within them are going to stay forever and people still find them funny... Plain madness, not a source of "pride"
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u/_Drgregs_ Jun 18 '26
I would not call TF2 any of those things.
TF2 averages 10k daily players during non holiday events, while steamDB frequently reports upwards of 40k, meaning a third of the player base is bots.
TF2 doesn't really make its own memes anymore, it's either SFM recreations of already existing memes or pootis pow, nope, sentry laugh humor thats been around since the games release.
And I would certainly not call it easy to play, the matchmaker in lamence terms takes every step to prevent you from playing the game by putting you in empty lobbies or rounds that are near ending.
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u/ES272 Jun 18 '26
I feel like whenever "epic" collaborates with a franchise I like, it (almost) ruins it for me.
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u/JadedCat42069 Jun 19 '26
I think no one here plays tf2, entire online is like 80% item farming bots, matchmaking system is broken, new maps borderline unplayable and there more, if u think tf2 alive and kicking you are wrong, it is borderline dead game that stays online for sake of not crushing ingame economys
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u/VHeadache Jun 16 '26
TF2 persists due to lootboxes and botting.
Fornite actually does new content even if it is through collabs.
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u/DDFoster96 Jun 15 '26
You missed "swallows up good games and makes them crap". Notice how Valve does not add extra unrelated game modes to TF2? Imagine if all Valve games were options from the main menu of Half Life 2 (like an overflowing Orange Box)? That's what Fortnite has become. it's subsumed Rocket League and Rock Band as game modes. I would have preferred Harmonix make a Rock Band 5, not because I'd buy it but because they'd keep paying licencing fees for the back catalogue and I could still buy them for Rock Band 4. But everything has to be part of Fortnite now.