After much discussion and weighing our options unfortunately we have decided to no longer host TF2 as a testing platform or otherwise. This was not an easy decision as it was entertaining to play and enjoy with friends and newcomers alike.

However, due to the complete lack of support from Valve, the never ending broken updates plus the sheer number of hours we've (and I've personally) spent just keeping them running after Valve screws the pooch week after week, we simply cannot justify hosting them any longer.

This game is going on 6 years old and Valve still seems completly unable to make it work properly. Trust me, we've looked at the code, we've investigated the ongoing problems and symptoms (that are essentially identical every time something would kill the servers) but this game has just become too much of a bloated and scatterbrained bag of trash to continue to support it.

Not to mention that unless Valve puts some real effort into fixing the fundamental problems with it, it's only going to get worse.

That being said, we are looking into hosting something else but for the time being we are testing some benchmarking software made by Soun and WDMD to see if it provides us with the data we require.

Further updates will be posted if and when anything changes.