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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Grandy on June 24, 2011, 04:28:27 PM

Title: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Grandy on June 24, 2011, 04:28:27 PM
 Yay? No yay?

 I have no idea. People are already complaining about a sudden increase on hackers and griefers.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Grandy on June 24, 2011, 04:49:57 PM
I laugh at all the money that the people who paid for it had to pay in order to play it! Yes!

No one laughts AT MY MONEY.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Cerebus on June 24, 2011, 05:02:31 PM
Thanks for telling, now I have a third game on Steam!
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: WarxePB on June 24, 2011, 05:03:27 PM
Eh, doesn't really make a difference. Everyone who wanted it has bought it already, and everyone else (read: me) probably can't run it on their computers.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Cerebus on June 24, 2011, 05:05:09 PM
I might not even be able to run it either, but hey, it's free!
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Cerebus on June 24, 2011, 05:11:15 PM
Yeah, same here. I'd love to play the game, but my computer isn't in the mood to let me play without blowing up. >.>

Yeah, that sucks...
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Grandy on June 24, 2011, 05:19:04 PM
Sorry. But you paid for it, I didn't. Deal with it.

No. Stop, seriously, stop.

I posted that other topic because I am sick and tired of reading that sentence. Stop doing it or so help me god, I'm out of this forum for good.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Archem on June 24, 2011, 06:02:50 PM
We paid for it, we played it for years, and now that it's a hat simulator, you can have it. But we still get more features.

Score 1 for TF2 vets. Oh, and we'll kick the **** out of you newbies in a game any day.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: A Forgotten Legend on June 24, 2011, 07:13:44 PM
*has never played it before*

What exactly is this?  Too lazy to google at the moment.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: HobomasterXXX on June 25, 2011, 01:02:32 AM
What do we get for actually owning the game? A hat or some bullshit?
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Bluhman on June 25, 2011, 02:59:09 AM
What do we get for actually owning the game? A hat or some bullshit?

YOU ARE CORRECT.

You get a World War I American whatever army helmet that can be worn on every class.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Archem on June 25, 2011, 03:27:36 AM
*has never played it before*

What exactly is this?  Too lazy to google at the moment.
Seriously? What exactly entails your gaming history? Shoes and an apron or something?

That is so not gaming.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: MissingName on June 25, 2011, 03:32:07 AM
I bought it a while back.

I just can't play it.   :(
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Razor on June 25, 2011, 10:16:37 AM
Nobody mind Lucas there, the concept of supporting videogames by giving the developers money is foreign to him.

Besides, there are minor differences between the pros and the free-players. Inconsequential things, really.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: X_marks_the_ed on June 25, 2011, 10:55:03 AM
I barely had any motivation to play when I bought it, now I absolutely don't want to anymore.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Dragonium on June 25, 2011, 12:39:56 PM
I bought it and my laptop wouldn't run it.

Nobody's talking about TF2 any more.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: zuhane on June 25, 2011, 12:59:31 PM
Are you referring to TF2 or the first one?
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: zuhane on June 25, 2011, 03:26:55 PM
What?! It really is. Just checked. Why is, in my opinion, the best and most deep FPS on the market
completely free? What are Valve doing?! I hope we don't get loads of morons joining our beloved servers.
This is insane!!
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Grandy on June 25, 2011, 07:55:32 PM
So you're saying that people who don't have enough money to pay for the game are morons?

Are they not?
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Dragonium on June 25, 2011, 09:43:12 PM
At a guess I would say this is because TF2 isn't really that profitable any more. As I said, nobody's talking about it any more; a lot of the hardcore fanbase has either moved on to different games or left out of frustration at all the cash shop stuff. This is at worst an effort to get more people who might potentially buy cash shop stuff, and at best a nice gesture from Valve. Maybe it's both.

Speaking of cash shop, have you guys seen what's happening with EVE? (http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=932&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=updat
e&utm_content=devblog&utm_campaign=eveonline) Somebody leaked a newsletter in which CCP basically stated - they claim in exaggeration - that all future EVE expansions and future CCP games (including the World of Darkness MMO, which I am not happy about) will be full of pay-to-win cash shop items which give you an advantage over regular players. EVE players take the economics of EVE very seriously. Cue mass cancellation of subscriptions and enormous basement-dweller protest.

It's hilarious.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Archem on June 25, 2011, 10:41:58 PM
At a guess I would say this is because TF2 isn't really that profitable any more. As I said, nobody's talking about it any more; a lot of the hardcore fanbase has either moved on to different games or left out of frustration at all the cash shop stuff.
The future. What's it like? Do I grow a badass beard in the year 2021? How's TF3, by the way?
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Bluhman on June 26, 2011, 12:21:21 AM
The future. What's it like? Do I grow a badass beard in the year 2021? How's TF3, by the way?

I can certainly answer your last question. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIafaUfkLSQ)
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: zuhane on June 26, 2011, 11:44:47 AM
I personally think the cash shop is more than justifiable. When they brought out roughly 120 unprofitable free updates
to keep people happy, read community forum posts and constantly kept up with their customers' demands, it's only
fair that they finally made a scheme to finally reel in a little profit. You have to remember that just about everything
in the shop can still be obtained for free. It's just a quicker process if you buy it.

They now just released another huge update which is fantastic of them, like usual. They're always keeping fans happy, making
a brilliant game more brilliant. And the whole "morons" thing is something you'll understand if you play pub servers. There's
an influx of people on my local called stuff like "darkshadow123xx" who play nothing but Scout. Not sure if this whole "free" thing
was a good idea. It's gonna be a few weeks until servers calm down a bit and become playable again. It still baffles me how
this is free, whilst other games like CS and CoD cost money. It was already a bargain... now it's just... charity!
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Dragonium on June 26, 2011, 01:14:25 PM
Do I grow a badass beard in the year 2021?

Oh boy. Somebody else tell him.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Archem on July 08, 2011, 07:39:37 PM
I'm all old-school, so I still prefer the old menus. Oh, how I miss them...
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: zuhane on July 08, 2011, 11:36:20 PM
Tru dat, Archem. Tru dat :(
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: lilsniffs3 on July 08, 2011, 11:42:26 PM
Old menus didn't work on my new computer. So I sent a cry for help to Steam. I receive response during vacation with complex solution. Come back from vacation, new menu, and I can play on this computer now. Yay.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Razor on July 09, 2011, 05:45:45 PM
When it first came out, the main menu was a in game shot of 2fort, I think. They removed it because it was bit of an eater of loading times. But back then, you could mod it so an actual game would be played with bots.
I wish I had.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Bluhman on July 09, 2011, 08:52:56 PM
When it first came out, the main menu was a in game shot of 2fort, I think. They removed it because it was bit of an eater of loading times. But back then, you could mod it so an actual game would be played with bots.
I wish I had.
Man, just like Half Life II.
The TF2 main menu's getting increasingly more and more HUDy.
Title: Re: Team Fortress is now free
Post by: Archem on July 09, 2011, 09:35:04 PM
When it first came out, the main menu was a in game shot of 2fort, I think. They removed it because it was bit of an eater of loading times. But back then, you could mod it so an actual game would be played with bots.
I wish I had.