• Might Team Fortress 2 Go Free To Play?
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let's hope valve doesn't fuck over dota 2 with cosmetic shit
Well well well, a FREE WEEK.....that's all! No need to panic anymore!
[QUOTE=lew06;30582982]All I want is old TF2 back, without the hats and the weapons and the maps. Exactly where it was when the game was first released.[/QUOTE] Team Fortress 2 Lite? That would maybe make a good Free-to-Play version, the original game and just the game, way before it became run with shitty hats and 12 year old mic spammers.
[QUOTE=DEMONSKUL;30605501]Well well well, a FREE WEEK.....that's all! No need to panic anymore![/QUOTE] Thats good.
Biggest problem with F2P = People making new Steam accounts just to rage with their cheats on. It would work if they had some sort of system where they knew who had multiple accounts, and if you got VAC banned on a trash account then it would extend to your main account. I'd be happy if they put something like that in place, because F2P = Free to cheat
Every time I see one of these threads, I get all fed up again over one of my favourite games turning to shit. I honestly would never have expected Valve to go this way with TF2, or any game of theirs for that matter.
[QUOTE=geogzm2;30582042]Releasing a game, letting people pay money for it and then making it free to play should be illegal.[/QUOTE] Ummmm, how long has it been out for?
[QUOTE=dirty harry;30615551]Every time I see one of these threads, I get all fed up again over one of my favourite games turning to shit. I honestly would never have expected Valve to go this way with TF2, or any game of theirs for that matter.[/QUOTE] I'd rather they had gone the direction of randomized weapons a la Diablo or Borderlands, at least then the drop system wouldn't be so tedious.
It's just a free weekend. Jesus christ do you people even read the blog?
[QUOTE=JustGman;30619947]It's just a free weekend. Jesus christ do you people even read the blog?[/QUOTE] There are talks of an actual F2P TF2 in addition to the free weekend
Valve should just go "fuck the world" and release a patch that destroys all the hats, all this inventory bollocks and all the community weapons, with only "deal with it" as the patch note. at this point, the standard of the community could only improve.
[QUOTE=JustGman;30619947]It's just a free weekend. Jesus christ do you people even read the blog?[/QUOTE] Free week, actually
It would be rad if they did do this. [editline]22nd June 2011[/editline] I don't care if I bought the game they've done dozens of free updates anyway.
I'm still glad I bought the Orange Box.
Valve earns more money from hats than people who buy the actual game. Good job guys. [editline]22nd June 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=nikomo;30628905]I'm still glad I bought the Orange Box.[/QUOTE] Shit yes.
[QUOTE=midlet_guy;30581791]The game which i bought is going for free .... :/[/QUOTE] Big fucking problem [editline]22nd June 2011[/editline] unless you bought it yesterday
[QUOTE=Matrix374;30582033]that takes the fun of finding weapons out of the game[/QUOTE] delete them then
ITT: Mindless speculation based upon extremely vague comments. Valve said they've been working on a free to play game for a while, they'd let us know if a game that they already pushed out four years ago is going free all of the sudden. It's extremely likely that Dota 2 or another game that's under covers will be free 2 play, but the chances of TF2 going free 2 play are slim to none. Even then, it wouldn't be so bad. I don't know why some people are pulling situations out of their asses where they say if they join a server with old weapons they'll be called a "OP WEAPON BUYER!!1", no, shut up, that will [i]never[/i] happen especially if a game that's again, been around for four years, went free. And of course they would provide some sort of compensation/bonus/benefit to people who bought the game with cold hard money, probably more than just a cosmetic.
[QUOTE=lew06;30582982]All I want is old TF2 back, without the hats and the weapons and the maps. Exactly where it was when the game was first released.[/QUOTE] As much as I want to see this happen, it never will. Dividing the community would mean less full servers etc. [editline]22nd June 2011[/editline] not that the community isn't already divided about certain issues...
Goddamn, I don't need to be getting this pissed off ten minutes after I have woken up. I was prepared to post a pretty long rant about the TF2 Purists but I have no desire to get banned again after already getting one stupid ban a few days ago. So I'm just going to sum it up and say this: I hate every last one of them. I wish they would all just go away. The game would be far better without them.
[QUOTE=Jorori;30584484]Enjoy having only 6 maps[/QUOTE] Much rather that than a bunch of maps I wont enjoy playing filled up with shitty weapons and hats that ruined the perfect balance of the original game.
It's real, it's confirmed. We're all dead.
[QUOTE=GhostSonic;30668772]It's real, it's confirmed. We're all dead.[/QUOTE] Was about to say, it's mentioned at the end of meet the medic.
[URL]http://www.teamfortress.com/freetoplay/[/URL]
I wonder if they're thinking about leaving this uber update as the last major update and make the game community driven from now on and just add bug fixes and such when needed. Or maybe they'll save that for when they make Meet The Pyro. Or maybe they'll just keep on doing what they've always done. Personally I guess I actually would like it if they left it to the community for now like they've gradually done more and more ever since they started the hat mania. Make them focus on their other projects even more.
[QUOTE=dgg;30669579]I wonder if they're thinking about leaving this uber update as the last major update and make the game community driven from now on and just add bug fixes and such when needed. Or maybe they'll save that for when they make Meet The Pyro. Or maybe they'll just keep on doing what they've always done. Personally I guess I actually would like it if they left it to the community for now like they've gradually done more and more ever since they started the hat mania. Make them focus on their other projects even more.[/QUOTE] No. The TF2 team only works on TF2 anyway, plus community maps suck 99% of the time. Valve need to get the TF2 team to stop making shitty hats that don't add anything interesting and make more maps.
i dono, this might be a random and good time to get back into the game just because
This is pretty cool
[QUOTE=Legend286;30669872]No. The TF2 team only works on TF2 anyway, plus community maps suck 99% of the time. Valve need to get the TF2 team to stop making shitty hats that don't add anything interesting and make more maps.[/QUOTE] They've helped out on both Portal and Left 4 Dead 2. There is nothing that says that they can't help out on other projects or start a new one on their own. They don't need to dedicate a lot of their time on TF2 when it's so easily community driven. Every game needs to stop getting major support (and at some point, any support at all) at some point in it's lifetime so that the company as a whole can keep producing better and newer products for the future. TF2 is in a good position now to drop down to bugfixing support, a contest here and there and leave the rest to the players.
[QUOTE=dgg;30670094]They've helped out on both Portal and Left 4 Dead 2. There is nothing that says that they can't help out on other projects or start a new one on their own. They don't need to dedicate a lot of their time on TF2 when it's so easily community driven. Every game needs to stop getting major support (and at some point, any support at all) at some point in it's lifetime so that the company as a whole can keep producing better and newer products for the future. TF2 is in a good position now to drop down to bugfixing support, a contest here and there and leave the rest to the players.[/QUOTE] TF2 has gone free to play :v:
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