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http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/24/breaking-team-fortress-2-is-now-free-to-play-forever/
+ Show Spoiler +Industry trade website Develop-Online has revealed in an interview with Valve’s Robin Walker that Team Fortress 2 is now permanently free to play, and will solely be supported by in-game item purchases.
TF2′s switch to F2P was rumored and expected, but perhaps not this soon. Walker says that Valve had been exploring the idea since September 2010. “We’ve been toying with the idea of making Team Fortress free-to-play ever since the Mann-conomy update,” Walker said. “The data we got back from that update leads us to believe that TF2 would be more successful as a completely free product.” Read the rest of the interview with Walker at Develop-Online.
Prior to today, Team Fortress 2 was in the middle of a “free week.” The game’s Über Update should deploy later this evening.
Basically they announced TF2 is now free to play/download.
So what do you guys think? Microtransactions made this game free to play forever, I'm downloading TF2 right now. It's pretty damn fun, hopefully other companies will get the idea to make a quality product FIRST, before adding microtransactions to grab money. (Blizzard failed on the first part for SC2/BNET0.2)
Will companies follow suit? All the companies are doing microtransactions except they make shit games/products. TF2 was pretty well designed, before microtransactions came along meaning they actually put thought in the game and put in a way LATER to continuously fund this game development.
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purchased this like a 6 months after the release. It's still fun, even though you rage most of the time in Public anyway.
Good move by valve. Can't wait to hit the public with my friends to own every new player (and older ones) up.
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so essentially now the games more powerful items will cost money. so whoever has the most cash get the most op weapons.
That really doesn't make much sense but ok...
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On June 24 2011 10:14 masterbreti wrote:
so essentially now the games more powerful items will cost money. so whoever has the most cash get the most op weapons.
That really doesn't make much sense but ok...
it doesnt work like that, so it does make sense.
but good move for them, got it when it came out and played the shit out of it, a really fun game
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On June 24 2011 10:14 masterbreti wrote:
so essentially now the games more powerful items will cost money. so whoever has the most cash get the most op weapons.
That really doesn't make much sense but ok...
You get them too, but it takes more time. You can BUY the items but they're not tradeable unlike the items you find.
They aren't really more POWERFUL, each item has it's benefits and drawbacks, as you can see in each items stats.
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Unlockable weapons make the bad players a bit less bad, but will get rolled by skilled players.
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On June 24 2011 10:19 ViQun wrote:
Unlockable weapons make the bad players a bit less bad, but will get rolled by skilled players.
Exactly. I still play with the original weapons all the time. Rest suck.
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On June 24 2011 10:14 masterbreti wrote:
so essentially now the games more powerful items will cost money. so whoever has the most cash get the most op weapons.
That really doesn't make much sense but ok...
The design philosophy behind the newer weapons are that they would be side-grades rather than upgrades. There's a downside to the different items you can use so using the originals doesn't just give you a straight up advantage.
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The saharan spy set is so good. That's pretty much the only "new" items that are overpowered. The rest are either meh or situational items.
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On June 24 2011 10:20 Grettin wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2011 10:19 ViQun wrote:
Unlockable weapons make the bad players a bit less bad, but will get rolled by skilled players. Exactly. I still play with the original weapons all the time. Rest suck.
In competitive TF2 in Europe, all unlocks are banned apart from Kritzkrieg, Ubersaw and Blutsauger <3
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Already had it for several months but i'm looking forward to pwning the noobs that are getting it with this announcement.  Is their any better feeling in fps's than one-shotting a heavy with a headshot from the other side of the map?......nope.
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All i need is my bow for the sniper Good move though! have had the game since beta testing ^^
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Hope to see you guys on the tf2 battlefield. I think Valve is going to be making lots of F2P games in the future after they proved the success of the item market and micro-transactions.
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Such an amazing game, if you DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME, go download it now!!!
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This move basically guarantees that DOTA 2 is gonna be free. This excites me.
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I just made a thread the other day when they announced it was TF2 free week. Glad to see it's going to be free forever!! Woot!
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Well, you can unlock the class update unlocks through achievements, and you can craft a lot of the new ones. You don't need any unlock at all, most are worse than their original. I play with the default load outs (+the original medic unlcoks) 98% of the time.
If you really want an unlock, you can trade it as well for some other weapons. Someone is bound to have it :D.
I'd rather like a system where you can equip everything from the start, but w/e.
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I am so sad they didnt made a mac client for this game, i loved team fortress classic back in the days...conc jump all the way
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On June 24 2011 10:14 masterbreti wrote:
so essentially now the games more powerful items will cost money. so whoever has the most cash get the most op weapons.
That really doesn't make much sense but ok...
The weapons are mostly sidegrades, so non-default weapons are not super op. Drops happen often and you can always spend 10$ to upgrade to premium. They can't let every free account get hat drops or we would get computer farms with TF2 running on AFK servers.
TF2 is the better version of FPS games. The shitty CoD and Battlefield games only try to simulate reality and encourage 2 shot deaths. TF2, contrarily, depends on strategy and teamwork and has a diverse set of original weapons.
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