not having mustardoverlord's approval as a player
also not reaching my own personal goals

b4nny may not be the best player or nothing but his dedication to this game has kept me inspired to play tf2 for some time

I play tf2 for the logs

theres an untapped market of twitter girls that was made apparent to me so im going to keep playing to capitalize on it

Since I started playing this game, I've wanted to become the best scout in the world, and that still hasn't changed. I keep playing and trying because I want to become a scout that's better than clockwork. I saw how good he was at the game, doing crazy ass shit like defending lasts against 3 people alone and getting 82 frags in that viaduct match and I wanted to be able to do it too. I know it's definitely hard enough to make it to invite, and even harder to become top of invite, and harder still to win a LAN, but I'm not scared of the fucking mountain I have to climb to get to that point. I'm still going to try, and I'm not gonna give up until this game is dead.

I want to get good enough to have my own harem of girl gamers that feed my ego while I stomp tf2center

In my early days of TF2, I was really inspired by PYYYOUR to become a really good medic. However, I started some pugs and found that scout was a really fun class to play. Shootist got me into pugging without even knowing who I was and I still thank him to this day for introducing me to something that was outside of lobbies.

Starting my scouting career, I always wanted to be as good as my former scout partner Dumbbrain and I still don't think I'm as good as he was back then.

In my opinion, I feel like there's still a bit of an unexplored peak in terms of overall skill for demoman. Being able to have rollouts as fast as kaidus while having the game sense and DM of players like duwatna and the survival skills of muma. Striving to incorporate the best of many great demos is what keeps me going

i just wanna play games with my buds

The thought of being in a casted invite match while Huck makes copy pasta memes about me in chat is the sole reason why i play.

its really satisfying to kill things in tf2
i take week long breaks sometimes and its refreshing

dont play for like a few weeks/1+ month or somethin, just watch streams/frag vids, eventually you'll be interested in playing again, atleast that works for me

watching Marmaloo become a God while I sit by struggling to find a team that has more than 2 scrims per night

At first, I really liked jump maps and doing dumb stuff as roamer.
The game got a little stale but by then I had a good amount of people that thought I was shit so I kept playing to prove them wrong. That and I have aspirations to become the best roamer, even with the 80-120 ping i get.

Although now I'm more interested in becoming a great jumper & playing other games casually considering how much 6s is declining. I have a lot to prove in 6s but I'm beginning to think I don't need to prove it, especially not to the vast majority of unlikable invite players.

Losing keeps me playing

i feel like i have to prove something after playing for so long but i cant because i'm still awful

no gf

long-time friends got me interested in the first place, new friends keep me interested. I enjoy the teamwork and bonding more than any TF2-specific facet, it's just by chance that for me it's in TF2 and not another game.

I just really love playing Soldier and Medic

good movement

i like to play with my team, and pugs are usually quite fun

Honestly, the big reason is that in 2012 I said that I would get to invite eventually. Everything I do in TF2 is in some way or another done to either improve my play or be sure the scene is healthy enough to where the division will be there when I get good. I want to be good at TF2, and I want TF2 to be good.

The people I meet along the way are (most of the time) great, as well. This community is seriously unique. From the artists that worked on TF2Can to the production team at GXL to my former and current teammates to the friends I've made through Stadium to the coaches I've had to the coaches I've helped recruit to the dedicated audiences to the great players at the top... people are generally just great.

because no other games give me that good of a feeling when i do nice plays

It's really fun to try to prove that you're the best. The only problem is no matter how well you do nowadays people will still think you're awful because you're "being carried" or because "invite sucks now". I'm only playing now cause it kills time that I'm not playing overwatch and I really wanna go to Europe.

TF2 was the first time in my life I noticed I was getting good at literally anything in my life when i started doing really well in pub servers, and I've never stopped pushing myself to get better because this game honestly feels like my one chance to be really, really great at something, even if that something is super insignificant and not particularly cared about.

haven't found a better game

friends

A desire to improve and prove people wrong. Plus i learned some lessons about non tf2 stuff from hanging with certain people, so it's always cool talking to and meeting people.

Because the game is good and you play against actual people instead of endless waves of brainless bots *cough mvm*, so it's different every time. TF2 is my favorite multiplayer game by a long shot.

its the best game

shame valve and lots of others dont think so