12 years later, players somehow keep Team Fortress 2 alive on the PS3

Enlarge / Team Fortress 2 on PS3 is the only way to play the "classic" version of the team shooter, without the new guns and features that changed the game drastically.

Team Fortress 2 was Lars Nilsen's favorite game. He's spent hundreds of hours running between rooftops as the scout in 2Fort and dominating points on Dustbowl as a demoman since he picked up the quirky team shooter in 2011.

After playing consistently for five years, Nilsen took a break in 2016 to focus on other things. Still, the class-based charm and powerful combo of the heavy/medic uber-charge eventually convinced him to come back. He booted up the game in April of 2019, hoping to get into the habit of erecting dispensers once again.

There was just one problem, though. He couldn't join a match.

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