yep this is the tf2 halloween event experience
forced to play on completely dead servers to keep contract progress, for no reason, besides so that i can get a worthless halloween restricted cosmetic that only has a tiny chance to be one that i actually want
gifts used to be fucking TRADABLE at the very least no matter how trash they were
and all of this while greedy sloporium members feast off the young blood and whales that pour money into this game

FUCK YOU TF2 DEV TEAM. YOU STOPPED CREATING UPDATES FOR PLAYERS. you have ignored literal years of veteran players begging, pleading, dumping even more money into the game in hopes that you merely PAY ATTENTION to what you do with this title, but you don't, the only reason the game is still supported is the workshop, the only thing the tf2 team cares about is its relation with workshoppers, PLAYERS on the other hand get to do THIS