By god, you're SERIOUSLY over-reacting!
They made tf2 FREE for gods sake! If someone griefs they get banned. It's simple. This isn't the early gmod days for gods sake.
There has been no so called 'slippery slope' there has been only free additions and updates to the game, which earns them the money they need to produce more games (like portal 2) and keeps the game going.
I'm usually not rude about things like this but making something FREE by a company trying to make money is damn generous, this considered they also made all those items for free in the past too!
If you don't want to play with the items go to a vanilla server - there are plenty out there, or even better, go on offline mode and play with bots.
The updates allowing my friends who were unsure about tf2 before try it out, and purchase it if they like it - or if they choose not to, simply not buy it at all!
They already gave you a bloody medal for loyalty. Wear that, keep quiet and enjoy all the free items they're giving.
And to put it not so politely - enjoy the free shit or sod off.
They made tf2 FREE for gods sake! If someone griefs they get banned. It's simple. This isn't the early gmod days for gods sake.
There has been no so called 'slippery slope' there has been only free additions and updates to the game, which earns them the money they need to produce more games (like portal 2) and keeps the game going.
I'm usually not rude about things like this but making something FREE by a company trying to make money is damn generous, this considered they also made all those items for free in the past too!
If you don't want to play with the items go to a vanilla server - there are plenty out there, or even better, go on offline mode and play with bots.
The updates allowing my friends who were unsure about tf2 before try it out, and purchase it if they like it - or if they choose not to, simply not buy it at all!
They already gave you a bloody medal for loyalty. Wear that, keep quiet and enjoy all the free items they're giving.
And to put it not so politely - enjoy the free shit or sod off.