Team Fortress 2has smashed its concurrent player record a whopping 16 years after it first launched.Team Fortress 2was the long-in-development follow-up toTeam Fortress Classic. It released in 2007 to extremely positive reviews and was a key part of Valve’sThe Orange Boxcollection.Team Fortress 2is generally considered one of the best multiplayer shooters of all time, which has given it some incredible longevity.
16 years after launch, people are still playingTeam Fortress 2. The multiplayer shooter has staying power that is nearly unprecedented. And in fact,Team Fortress 2is actually more popular nowthan ever before.
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Team Fortress 2has managed to smash its concurrent player record. According to the latest stats from SteamDB,Team Fortress 2’s new concurrent player record is 253,997. While some Steam users may be scratching their heads about how this could have happened, this surge in players was likely fueled by some new content that Valve recently added to the game. With no prior announcements, Valve released abig new update forTeam Fortress 2that added a whopping 14 new maps to the game and kicked off a summer event that will last until September 15.
SinceTeam Fortress 2has been out since 2007, some fans may want to see Valve makeTeam Fortress 3instead of release new content for the 16 year old game. However, Valve, for one reason or another, has almost never made a third game in its respective franchises. Not only is there noTeam Fortress 3, butPortalstopped atPortal 2and of course,fans have been waiting forHalf-Life 3for over a decade at this point.
WithTeam Fortress 2breaking its concurrent player count record, one would argue that there isn’t much reason for Valve to move forward with a sequel at this time. Clearly, there are many fans who are perfectly content withTeam Fortress 2. And as long asValve keeps releasingTeam Fortress 2updatesand adding new content to the game, it’s safe to say that there are many who will keep playing it for the foreseeable future.
Something that could potentially happen would beTeam Fortress 2getting aCounter-Strike 2style updatewhere its updated to work with the Source 2 engine. Nothing to that effect has actually been announced at the time of this writing, but it could be what’s needed to makeTeam Fortress 2smash its concurrent player record yet again.
Team Fortress 2is out now for PC.
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