Did they COMPLETELY change it? There's Titans, parkour, fast-paced gunplay, etc. That's a bit of a stretch to say they completely changed it. Second bold part is once again, conjecture and guesswork. You forgot to factor in how different diverse the games lineup of each platform is now compared to a few years ago. Microsoft's marketing budget also helped a ton in making sure it's seen. This year, while MS had both BF1 and TF2 as exclusive marketing mentions, they focused on BF1, which greatly reduced TF2's footprint in terms of ads.
As for the reviews, not sure which ones you were reading, but a lot of them (
including ours) focused on SP and the MP. I mean, a lot of sites gave it a score of 8 or higher based on both the SP and MP. Surely it has merit, right? Unless you think every site's review is garbage at MP or didn't play it enough.
It's definitely OK wanting TF2's MP to be like the first, but blanketing it with how
everyone wants it that way or pointing to it as the factor on why its sales are (potentially) bad, is not 100 percent accurate. The TF2 OT here on GAF is as better an evidence of users (and on Reddit as well) that those who have it and playing it, like the game's MP. Kinda moot, since whatever shouting people do, it won't change TF2. Maybe Respawn will change or balance TF3 to something both sides will like? One can hope but they can't please everyone.
Yep, agree here. I'm hoping that we'll be able to get to talk to Respawn at some point soon and I'll definitely ask about the TF1 changes, what their data states, etc.