Has your life improved since you quit?
Yes, quite a bit actually. TF2 always angered and frustrated me, and took away a lot of my time.
Do you get bored enough to feel the urge to come back to TF2 often, or are you satisfied enough with where you are (or dissatisfied enough with TF2 when you left) to not even consider it?
I still love jumping and occasionally play casual with friends, but that's really a whole other game to me. I feel the urge to come back to 6s quite frequently. It's kind of like an unhealthy addiction or like a bad relationship. I put lots of time into the game and am extremely dissatisfied with my performance and standing, but I've been caring less and less about it given the state of the game.
Did you have some other, non-videogame hobby to spend your time on, or did you exit into the world with no clear plans for what to do next?
Started to pick up classical guitar again, and I'm really excited for Tekken 7. Fighting games seem really fun seeing as theyre pretty popular and 1v1. It's nice to not have to worry about playing on a team and improve on your own terms. Always liked playing tekken as a kid and T7 looks AMAZING. I might finish the jump map I was making and a tekken related app i was working on as well. Most of my time is going to go into graduate studies though, can't wait for that :)
What was the main reason that you decided to quit TF2?
There are a lot of factors and I'm not sure which is the main one.
- I lost a lot of passion for the game when demo was nerfed and when the escape plan got minicrits, which I believe in turn made scout very powerful.
- Valve is doing a horrible job; I don't like the direction the game is going.
- Can't pug anymore because everyone just whines like 4 year olds, giving me headaches.
- Vand showed me the sociopathic mentality of the usual invite player. Also turned the game into a job rather than a hobby of mine.
- I doubt I can be the best because I get over 100 ping in match servers and I only like playing demo/soldier. No lans that I will ever be able to attend. I do have the money to attend but it's really not worth blowing that kind of money on it. I tried a bit to play scout as I believe it's the only class that I can get really good at given high ping, but I don't feel like starting over.
- A lot of players play tf2 A LOT and I can't really keep that going with school, part time jobs, other hobbies, and grad school right around the corner so it feels like I can't really keep playing at my usual level.
- Past couple of seasons have been failures for me. Really ruined any confidence I had in my play and brought me to the realization that the only reason I was playing in invite was because the game had most of the real invite players leave.
- Haven't cared to do the things one needs to do to improve, but at the same time really didn't like losing.
- Didn't get any recognition. It's nice to get compliments every once in awhile but in general the community seems pretty hostile (including myself). Most of the humble people don't play. Very few do (s/o to freestate <3)
- too emotional over the game
Really just that this game hasn't brought anything positive into my life aside from a handful of people that I like being around. I really do regret ever playing 6s in the first place even considering the few great people I've met.
And, of course, why do you browse a forum for a game you no longer play?
I ask myself this question a lot. Kind of like an addiction to the game ends up bringing me here. I should stop and move on.