On July 7th, Valve released the "Meet Your Match" update. This seemed quite good as it was adding a competitive factor to TF2, but the hype quickly died down as people found out quickplay was removed.

What is quickplay, for those who don't use these baffling gaming terms?

In short, remember when you could click the "Find a game" button in TF2? You could join any server you chose, and you could easily invite friends to your game. And the matches weren't in a competitive style like they are now (with specific rounds, ranks, matchmaking, etc)? That was quickplay. It was less complex and as some say, more fun.

Anyways, now Valve has replaced quickplay with "Casual Matchmaking". What is this? It's the same as competitive (it has ranks, stats are tracked , you are matched to a specific game with similar players, ) but with different art. People liked pubs where you could easily invite friends, there wasn't any "matchmaking technology" and the gameplay in general didn't feel so competitive (for example, the new round system). If you want to bring back pubs/quickplay, sign this petition and maybe we can get TF2 back to normal.