As a TF2 player with about 1500 hours, I love everything about this game; the balance, the community, and the developer support from Valve. But the major thing dragging all of the fun from TF2 as a person living in Perth, Western Asutralia is the lack of servers. The only Valve servers for regular gamemodes (payload, KOTH etc) are on the East coast of Australia; roughly 4000km away. As such, for me and my friends (all of us with good internet speeds, etc) there are only 2 or 3 servers in my server browser hosted in WA, and therefore only 2 or 3 servers with less than 120 ping. It gets worse when it comes to Mann vs Machine; there seems to be no Mann Up servers in the entire southern hemisphere(even though there used to be), as my friends and I have been put into servers in Washington, Luxemburg and Russia every time we go to find a game, and have nearly 500 ping.

Like I've said, I love this game. I imagine a good amount of the 2.5 million odd people in WA do too. But when the only servers available are 2Fort Instaspawn and Trade Plaza, it kind of kills the fun. So please Valve, add Perth servers.