Since this project started, countless fads have come and gone, governments have fallen, music tastes have cycled, the width of jeans has waxed and waned, ever more satellites have been turned into indesinent space debris. Against our most vehement naysayers and the apex predators of the video game industry threatening our marketshare, we’ve outlived all of them. Contemporaries from 2014 have withered into dust against our might – our playercount standing strong against SimCity BuildIt and Pro Evolution Soccer 2015. The numbers are clearly in our favor.
In the spirit of the pending New Year, of Hogmanay, of the Feast of Saint Sylvester, of the twelve grapes of luck, of resolutions and promises we’ll pretend to keep, we figure it’s a good time to reflect on the history of the project and what lies ahead. We’re really proud of how far this project’s come, few mods manage to last a decade. Children born in the earliest days of Team Fortress 2 Classic’s development have already performed their first spawncamps on Harbor, with many more on the way. Our next major update is inches away, with a last-minute swell of new hires helping get it over the finish line; for them, we’re eternally grateful.
What is it that ignites the heart of man? Why do the wants in their heart draw them to our mod, against the fiercest competition and our glacial update pace? What gives us the same persistence and indestructibility of the aforementioned space debris? I look into the eyes of our community as if I’m staring down a fearless and starving beast, yet I see the reflection of me and my Eminoma co-conspirators, realizing that we’re all a part of the same community, we’re all still fans. The line is blurrier than you’d think.
As such, we’ve asked all of our developers – past, present, and future – if they could share some words about the project, anything they’d like. We’re still waiting on the responses from our future developers.
In the spirit of the pending New Year, of Hogmanay, of the Feast of Saint Sylvester, of the twelve grapes of luck, of resolutions and promises we’ll pretend to keep, we figure it’s a good time to reflect on the history of the project and what lies ahead. We’re really proud of how far this project’s come, few mods manage to last a decade. Children born in the earliest days of Team Fortress 2 Classic’s development have already performed their first spawncamps on Harbor, with many more on the way. Our next major update is inches away, with a last-minute swell of new hires helping get it over the finish line; for them, we’re eternally grateful.
What is it that ignites the heart of man? Why do the wants in their heart draw them to our mod, against the fiercest competition and our glacial update pace? What gives us the same persistence and indestructibility of the aforementioned space debris? I look into the eyes of our community as if I’m staring down a fearless and starving beast, yet I see the reflection of me and my Eminoma co-conspirators, realizing that we’re all a part of the same community, we’re all still fans. The line is blurrier than you’d think.
As such, we’ve asked all of our developers – past, present, and future – if they could share some words about the project, anything they’d like. We’re still waiting on the responses from our future developers.
