You can’t deny it! From the first time you put down a teleporter as an engineer (and then realising that they only go one way - booo!) to when you obtained the new flamethrower as pyro which has an airfist type ability you’ve just been playing the same game as you always did! Valve have taken away our beautiful physics and replaced them with beautiful graphics (not to mention beautiful fountainous gibs), they’ve taken away our custom class and replaced it with pure balance - they’ve taken our whole game in fact, changing small details along the way. But they can never hope to steal the soul of the game. TF2 will never have the lasting appeal of custom. After I’m done with it, I don’t think I’ll keep coming back like I have for the past 8 years.
Here’s to the next 8 years - nay the next hundred years of CustomTF!