Its not down completely, but the servers (at least community ones) can't talk to it.

uh some people seem to be fine but most aren't, was playing some highlander last night with stock soldier, was mostly annoying since the other team got to use some of the more annoying items like natasha

We quickly checked on our side, the two times we've opened the game recently, both local server and a community server had the items server working. So I'm not sure if it's a Casual specific issue or not.

@416d6f6e@lemmy.world Yes, the community server I tried today wasn't connecting to the item servers.

Anyone know if they are back up yet? Im away from pc rn

It's only affecting some users on some servers at some times of the day. I've noticed it since the update on the 8th or 9th. Seemingly completely arbitrary.

They've been down for a while. Last time I was in ugc servers (yesterday), they were still down.

I has happened, my dream of a vanilla TF2 sever came true for so little time, yet it gave me hope of popularizing the idea of such a server. (it was fun and I was advocating for an item-less community server for a while)