Valve has slightly edited the wording in its blog post about the upcoming Team Fortress 2 update. It seems that the company wants to lower expectations for the update.
Valve has in the blog post replaced the text “an update format update” with “a holiday format update”. With certain holidays, such as Halloween, the game will temporarily be updated with the theme of that holiday. Such updates are smaller than other major updates such as Jungle Inferno and Meet Your Match. With this, Valve seems to want to clarify that the update will be smaller than interested players may now expect.
In addition, the enumeration of what players can expect ended in the previous version of the “and who knows what else?” ; that phrase can also no longer be found in the current version of the blog post. So the update seems to consist of ‘items, levels, taunts, effects, war paints and fixes from the community’ .
On Reddit, where a user notified readers of the change, is disappointed. It will be the first time in a long time that Valve will release an update for its 2007 multiplayer shooter. The last major update that wasn’t a recurring seasonal event was Jungle Inferno, from 2017. Although the game has received little attention from its developer, it remains as popular as ever. Nearly 100,000 people are currently playing the game. This puts the game in tenth place on the list of most played Steam games at the moment.
