>>116158435This is true.
I'd never say "why don't they give it to the fans", because those projects are always inevitably done in by scummery and ego clashes. That
creators.tf Community Balance mod and all the video essays about how TF2 needs to become Overwatch and balance itself for comp 6s shows that for as little as Valve understands TF2, the vocal community understand it even less.
But fuck there have gotta be a *few* people at Valve who wanna work on TF2, right? Or past Valve employees/freelancers who would happily make sure TF2 is properly maintained if Valve paid them?
That's the thing that's so frustrating. The demand is there. TF2 is 13 years old and it's still in Steam's top 50 at any given moment. It brings in a lot of money, but if Valve just put the work in they could be making a SHIT TON of money. They can afford to leave money on the table despite people clamoring for Valve to sell them a product.
