Poll: The TF2 Insult

[Tzekelkan]

Let me just translate what the OP is probably saying.

"Waaah, I've paid 20$ (or probably much less than that) years ago and got literally hundreds of hours of enjoyment. But the game went free, so now I want compensation for the meager amount of money I paid so long ago. This is EXACTLY like an MMO going free, because you don't pay the equivalent of TF2's price every month to play those. Also, the system for unlocked items that you can either unlock or buy is worse than other systems where only people with money can have new items. Much worse. Also, I am the original Valve fan, so they should cater to me and me alone. Maybe my friends too. But anyway, Valve isn't allowed to get new fans, ever."

That's what tour post sounds like to me. I disagree strongly with your opinion, but I'm sure you can find many like-minded people on tué Steam forums, sadly.

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[Pearwood]

Bwahaha, you're joking right? The orange box was £30 for Half Life 2, Episode 1/2, Portal and TF2. Five fully fleshed out games for £30, and you want store credit? Grow up. Almost every game in the orange box has gone on sale for about 99p at some point or another, did you want store credit for those other games too? Maybe a full refund is in order. ¬¬

£15 when I got it over Steam and I don't think I bought it that long after it was released. But I am tempted to quit forever and demand my money back because it was my birthday yesterday and Valve haven't sent me a card with a gift voucher of at least £10 value. It's as good a reason as the OP has.

 

[Jonabob87]

Grow a pair.

Seriously, your entitled mindset is depressing and indicative of western excesses. Valve have spent however many years since the release of this game supporting the hell out of it and they'll continue. You have consumer rights, but you seem to think that others shouldn't.

Well guess what, F2P adopters are consumers too, with the same rights as you.

Also, I'm sure you've played an F2P game before. So you're the thing you hate.

 

[Treblaine]

Looks like it is finally time to graduate from the pubs.

Ah, clans, premium servers, commitment. Really depends how long the griefers last.

(I wonder if l4D will go F2P?)

 

[RastaBadger]

Am I the only person who sees players on free weekends (and now this) as extra cannon fodder?
I don't think this is a bad thing. Sure more compensation would be nice but it isn't going to change that much for me.

 

[gibboss28]

Yeah...get a grip on reality and stop over reacting to something that really isn't a big deal.

 

[gibboss28]

Bwahaha, you're joking right? The orange box was £30 for Half Life 2, Episode 1/2, Portal and TF2. Five fully fleshed out games for £30, and you want store credit? Grow up. Almost every game in the orange box has gone on sale for about 99p at some point or another, did you want store credit for those other games too? Maybe a full refund is in order. ¬¬

£15 when I got it over Steam and I don't think I bought it that long after it was released. But I am tempted to quit forever and demand my money back because it was my birthday yesterday and Valve haven't sent me a card with a gift voucher of at least £10 value. It's as good a reason as the OP has.

Thats a better reason than the OP has to be honest.

 

[Trogdor1138]

I bought the game a few months ago and it's one of the absolute best games I've ever played. I don't even like FPS online multiplayer games and always had a bit of a habit of avoiding them. This game amazed me completely.

So when the new update came out and I saw it free to play, I was happy, now I can convince more people to give it a try and it was great to see a company that doesn't try to milk you for every cent they can. It was a good idea and it will extend the lifespan of the game so much.

But hey, fuck that, I'll be a greedy and self-entitled whiner instead, right? They don't owe you jack shit buddy, you have a great game already.

 

[Daveman]

tbh everything after the pyro update has annoyed me and I haven't played since then. I can't believe anybody still finds it fun.

 

[smeghead25]

A few points.

1. You don't have to buy items if you don't want to. Get the fuck over that for a start. If it's the game you enjoy so much, play the damn game, don't claim that charging money for useless items is an 'insult'.

2. F2P seems to me to have only increased the number of noobs I play with. Which is kinda fun to be honest. It also means those of us who have bought it and found everyone else on the game to be way too good for our very average skills now have someone we can win against.

3. For me, this one is the biggest and dumbest claim: "IT'S UNFAIR THAT WE HAD TO PAY FOR IT BUT NOW ANYONE CAN PLAY IT FREE OF CHARGE." No, it's NOT unfair (unless you bought it within the last month for example, then yeah, it's a tad unfair and I hope you get some sort of compensation.) It just means that you perceived it to have financial value. If they hadn't released it as F2P, YOU wouldn't have gained any money, and probably neither would Valve. Similarly, releasing it as F2P doesn't cost you anything more, and it stands a chance of making Valve more money through a larger number of people using micro-transactions - and Steam.

4. Griefers will not have increased much at all in frequency or number. I mean if you're a griefer you've probably pirated the damn thing in the first place, or purchased it when it was $5, played for a bit to get your skill up, and then went griefing. Either way, the number of people interested enough to download a 10Gb game just to grief are probably few and far between.

 

[Choppaduel]

I pre-ordered the Orange Box in Oct. 2007 so I don't care at all that its going free.

not big deal

 

[Lyri]

These self-entitled twits are even going so far as to ***** about Valve giving them free stuff!

They didn't though did they and that's the point, everybody bought this game with their hard earned cash and after a short while they've dumped the charge.
People have a right to be pissed, I don't play TF2 any more and even I'm slightly annoyed at the fact it is now F2P.

The problem with F2P is that anyone can get it now which yes it is the point of a multi player game to have many people playing, however call it elitism if you like but the paying crowd does keep some annoying factors out.
I don't play F2P MMOs any more because the community in Pay to Play is much more bearable.

 

[AWAR]

I think charging 20 euros for an in game hat was insulting to me. Now I know there are people out there who have spent well over what they paid for the game in in-game items. But to charge 20 euros while the youth here barely makes it with 500 is ludicrous and insulting.

 

[renegade7]

I never got around to buying TF2 due to money [other games kept coming up that I wanted to buy ] so I see this as a good thing.

And you know....you can always mute the trolls if they become a problem

 

[Ekonk]

Team Fortress 2 is free, my friends an my girlfriend are playing it, I am pleased.

You and your "baww I paid for it back when it was a REAL game" is gamer hipsterdom. Take it down a notch.

 

[Vykrel]

look on the possible bright side: Valve suddenly making the game entirely free could mean that Team Fortress 3 may be in the works. who knows?

 

[Hamish Durie]

hehe i just no some where some PC fanboy is crying out on the internet saying the last bastion of pure PC games has fallen

 

[El Poncho]

It's becoming free to play just in time for me to get a laptop that will actually run it, I'm happy.

 

[omega 616]

I don't really have an opinion at the moment, I haven't been able to play TF2 in months, it just crashes when loading up a game.

I can't really imagine it turning into a fuck fest, vote kick away any trouble makers and just enjoy being able to play with more peeps.

(if anybody has any suggestions to get it working I would appreciate it, I have uninstalled and reinstalled and I have verified)

I am a bit pissed that I paid for it then when it becomes free all I get is a lil hat, better have some awesome stats.

 

[TheHighway]

I think the restrictions that have been imposed on the free accounts are fair enough, but the fact that we just get a hat is ridiculous. Not that I really care, I can't stand hats.

Weapons and class-pack hats, OK, I get, and they're absolutely fine. The more choices of methods to kill other players the better. But everyday hats, the fanatical devotion to these things in this game kind of makes me sad.

So I just play TF2 for the game, and I'm really not upset it went free as I got to play it beforehand anyway. I wish we'd gotten some special weapons or something, instead of a hat that I'll never wear (Max hat FTW [only worthwhile hat]).