The average players online has been up quite a bit this year for the game. What’s happening that there’s 100k+ today?
I don’t think TF2 was ever dying as a whole. Just community servers really died off. Valve did a lot of screwy things with it over the years and adding a matchmaking system really hurt servers a ton.
We shouldn't fully forgive Valve. The cycle goes from silence to cries of help, a update, everyone is forgiven, and back to silence. This is good that they still update the game. But until I see more I still don't trust Valve.