Answer: Yes it's been 16 years that the game still the most played game back in 2007, and why is the most played game? Simple: The gameplay i mean the game only has 9 characters to play, you like trying to back/trickstab someone, just pick spy, you wanna be a baseball play we'll just play scout, like it has characters, others are iconic and most loved because oml the merc characters? they are amazing and iconic (my favorite one is soldier because of his iconic voice line is ''MAGGOT!''), also when TF2 want to be a little realistic TF2 has a feature which is cartoon-like style graphics and i love it, also despite the fact when TF2 isn't a dead game we'll the game is UNKILLABLE by the way, and yep the community of this game ain't letting they favorite game to be a dead game (and mostly likely it became a meme game)