Apparently the earlier you have an account the longer you have to wait for hats

[mandrake]

2007, 1 Trophy Belt.

[Raiderz]

damn, if all this is true, I'm fucked. I have an '04 account.

[gdfsgdfg]

fake i got tf2 in 2009 no god damn hat

[Raiderz]

[QUOTE=Musicfreak59;16986346]Well, if you what you're saying is true, then the incentive to new players is something to keep them playing and staying with Valve.[/QUOTE]

Do new people really care as much about hats? If someone has the game for 3 hours and gets a hat, their like "oh cool, a hat" and keep playing. Too people who have been playing a while, a hat is a little bit bigger deal.

[I am a noob]

And how the fuck do I find out when I created my account?

[Red Dispenser]

06er on Steam, one hat (Mining Light)

[Skypilot2]

05'er here and no hats. But probably only because I don't play much.

[Thovex]

06 account and 0 hats.

[yellowoboe]

[QUOTE=I am a noob;16986793]And how the fuck do I find out when I created my account?[/QUOTE]
Name fits well with your post.

[Mark£d_OÑ£]

Dec. 06 account and 0 hats.

[Batmoutarde]

october 06 and 3 hats

[Kinglah Crab]

'05er, 4 hats.

Doesn't seem right

[scout-on-a-trai]

Also;
[quote=op]Apparently the earlier you have an account the longer you have[/quote]

:smug:

[Lighting]

09, no hats.
It's chance and luck, not date.

[I am a noob]

2006'er, 1 hat

[Ferdam]

04'er and 2 hats... This isn't true, it's the same chance for everyone..

[Carnotite]

I have one hat, but I wouldn't blame it on having an 04 account. I usually have shit luck getting things anyway, I don't doubt for a second that getting a hat is just a total crapshoot all around.

[Tentacle]

I signed up in 2003 and I don't have any hats. It has to be a coincidence. Would be pretty outlandish if Lady Luck was biased towards younger Steam accounts. Perhaps she's a paedophile.

[yuki]

06 account, no hats or anything of value.

[Eight Bit]

I signed up 2 weeks ago and got a hat. :buddy:

[Shadekill]

Signed up on 2004 and got the Bonk Helmet just now.

[admiral_Cola]

04* and zero

[afkmacro]

Anecdotal evidence, it's random.

[Wootman]

08 and 1 hat.

[conman420]

Maybe its when you bought TF2 instead?

[Ermandfa]

07
4 hats

BTW it should be the other way around. The new people that join shouldn't get their hats before the older ones. The older accounts deserve it more.

[Me0wmix]

'04er 2 hats, it's pure chance

[Bloodypalace]

from the mouth of the man that invented idling, Drunken F00l:

[quote]I posted this in my own forums, but I'll also post here.

Every 15,430 seconds (4 hours, 17 minutes, and 10 seconds) you have a 1.1905% chance to receive a hat. These are the exact values used and is not something that was determined by using data collected from idlers.

I verified this by checking against people who received two hats real close together and the difference in time was divisible by 15,430.

...

Every 4 hours, 17 minutes, and 10 seconds you roll an [b]84[/b] sided die and if it shows a [b]"1"[/b] then you get a hat.[/quote]

posted on the steam forums.

[yuki]

[QUOTE=Bloodypalace;16988116]from the mouth of the man that invented idling, Drunken F00l:

posted on the steam forums.[/QUOTE]
Oh what the fuck.

[tob]

04 account, played one day of the pre-OB release beta, and still no hats.