Team Fortress 2: Free to Play

[Kamon]

WELL. It finally happened. Supposedly.

I'm assuming the news is going to hit the blog as soon as Meet the Medic and the rest of the update comes. Notably, Team Fortress 2 is no longer available for purchase. You might think that this is because of the free to play week, but it's normally available during these periods for purchase aswell.

Thoughts? Discussion?

 

[Noise]

hopefully they only allow trading to people who own the game, besides that no complaints.

 

[Cacophonus]

How do they deal with items on a F2P model?

 

[Landmine_Salesman]

This will lead to a lot of hackers and the permabanned people coming back with new accounts. We should think about promoting eG's to full eGO's and giving maximum admin training.

 

[ModusPwnens]

interesting

 

[DRaGZ]

This is weird, because they declared it to be a "free week".

Why would they declare a free week and then suddenly make it free forever? It seems backwards.

 

[eightDash]

It's official. It's at the end of Meet the Medic.

 

[Darth]

I really hope they do not make it f2p.

 

[Ducttape]

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/06/23/valve-team-fortress-2-to-be-free-to-play.aspx

 

[Bryan]

valve time

 

[Cut Chem!st]

BR is gonna run the game into the ground, like every free game.

 

[Wolen]

BR?

 

[Cut Chem!st]

BR?

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/4882/thebrinvasion.png

 

[Kami]

this is stupid.

 

[NixJedi]

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/4882/thebrinvasion.png

Yes. That is the future of TF2. :facewall:

 

[roamer.]

Damn im kind of sad for that freaking ending...

 

[OzytheNerfer]

I'm so glad I'm not a trader right now.

Considering the aggregate supply of metal just went to infinity, the only things being traded will be unusuals, genuines, and level 1 or 100 items.

 

[eightDash]

I'm so glad I'm not a trader right now.

Considering the aggregate supply of metal just went to infinity, the only things being traded will be unusuals, genuines, and level 1 or 100 items.

Free players can only receive items. You must make a purchase to trade items.

 

[Prisoner416]

What? No.

 

[OzytheNerfer]

Free players can only receive items. You must make a purchase to trade items.

A key.

Or one of the .50 cent items.

Its borderline free for a premium account.