Team Fortress 2 Goes Free-to-Play, Meets the Medic
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ZiggyE, it's a 4 year old game, and there are plenty of F2P competitors out there already (Battlefield Heroes, those weird Korean ripoff games). For the game to stay competitive, they pretty much had to do this. It's also a good experiment to see if Dota 2 should do the same - with it's already F2P competitor.ZiggyE said:
YEAH BOY!Aerograt said:
And Valve, they do something like making the worlds best online FPS (in my opinion) free, but yet they make it so that no-one disrupts the endless amounts of fun!
Yes: alpha.tf2.escapistmagazine.com:27015Random Argument Man said:
uk.tf2.escapistmagazine.com:13013
Talk to http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/The-Escapist-Team-Fortress-2-Group-PC
Because few people can play a good medic.
Meet the Medic was certainly worth the wait. And I did get that "Proof of Purchase" hat a minute ago, the "From another era" part gave me a somber feeling.
Meh. The only thing I find interesting is that people actually paid enough in the store to make this whole thing financially possible. Really are hats and getting items sooner really that important? Oh facepalm for the type of people who play TF2 the criticism should not be directed at Valve for capitalizing but at the players for being... cash machines.
i dont think (or at least hope not) dota will be f2p, rts' demand the tight balance that will not be achieved through 'perks' via micro transactions
Even if the perks are completely cosmetic it will have an effect on the gameplay via visual recognition, something quite important - is that a spellcaster or is that a heavily armored knight? these things need to be instantly recognisable
And any kind of non-cosmetic perk, i.e. better heroes will completely skull fuck balance
BUT, i havent played 'LoL' so its speculation on what i think microtransactions will do to the game, i could be wrong idk
Even if the perks are completely cosmetic it will have an effect on the gameplay via visual recognition, something quite important - is that a spellcaster or is that a heavily armored knight? these things need to be instantly recognisable
And any kind of non-cosmetic perk, i.e. better heroes will completely skull fuck balance
BUT, i havent played 'LoL' so its speculation on what i think microtransactions will do to the game, i could be wrong idk
I like how Valve does some thing cool for their fans, and a good majority of the people are just crapping on it
I think more companies should do this, monetizing older games. While if you bought the game last week I can understand feeling cheated, my copy of TF2 just came with my Orange Box, which I purchased not just for my PC but also for my Xbox.
They already got me to buy one of the .99 class starter packs, but I also think it's very cool that you can just randomly find items in the game, too.
They already got me to buy one of the .99 class starter packs, but I also think it's very cool that you can just randomly find items in the game, too.
Well no, friend. I actually read the article before watching the video.
The video was the best thing ever. I wish I could save it somewhere, because it was just so awesome and no words can clearly describe how wonderful it was.
Maybe my sister can describe it.
"Man, that was so cool I think I came just from watching it."
Eh, good enough
The video was the best thing ever. I wish I could save it somewhere, because it was just so awesome and no words can clearly describe how wonderful it was.
Maybe my sister can describe it.
"Man, that was so cool I think I came just from watching it."
Eh, good enough