Team Fortress 2 players forlornly gaze at Counter-Strike 2 reveal: 'Maybe our day will come in another decade'

pcgamer.com:

Valve has announced Counter-Strike 2 is on the way and all the world is smiling. Well, nearly all. While plenty of people are happy to see Steam's perennial most-played game(opens in new tab) getting a much-deserved update, at least one other Valve game community feels, uh, a little neglected by the attention lavished on CS2.

Having spent several years prodding Valve about bot infestations(opens in new tab) and a general lack of major updates(opens in new tab), the Team Fortress 2 community was slightly taken aback by the sudden fanfare for CS2's announcement. It's reacted in its usual way: Wry, forlorn resignation. And memes.

The TF2 community isn't really angry about CS2. Even users still holding out hope for some kind of TF2 news mostly agree that "Valve definitely made the right choice(opens in new tab)" updating Counter-Strike first. In fact, players seem to have reached the acceptance stage of grief, on the whole, and are now committed to wringing as much comedy as they can out of the game's long, slow journey into the afterlife. 

Take, for example, the TF2 player threatening to turn each of the game's characters into animals(opens in new tab) until the game gets a major update. Or perhaps the popular post making fun of the community for its reaction to Valve's decision to update «one of if not the biggest fps game of all time,» rather than a «nearly 2 decade old game filled with cheaters and bots that barely runs on source spaghetti».

Meanwhile, a post sincerely, naively, optimistically asking if fans thought that CS2 indicated a possible update for TF2 was comprehensively answered by a single comment that received over 3,000 upvotes: "no(opens in new tab)".

That's pretty much the tenor of the response wherever