Team Fagtress 2 has gone full derp

[Stereotypical Villain]

They now have an item store where you can buy items for real cash. But I guess sheeple will still cheer since they can now buy their favorite hats and shit like that.

...

Yeah, it was bad before... but Gabe probably rolled his fat ass out of bed one day and said: "Bout time we kicked this derp into overdrive!"

 

[Muty]

Prices range from $0.49 to $4.99

The average price of an item is $1.97. Older Valve-made items tend to be the cheapest, new community-made items cost the most. The new Spy knife is $4.99, and the new Soldier rocket launcher is $2.49.

source

I stopped reading it at that point.

 

[Exmit]

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

Community made shit... I guess the Codex could gather up all our emo modders and create a flying dick rocket launcher, a DefJam Demo bling-bling item and a limited edition Juden Burner Flamethrower.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Someone should have warned them to never go full derp.

 

[Metro]

I still like and play the game on occasion, I guess that makes me a derp-lover.

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

I don't have anything against people who like the game, but people who would support those bastards by paying 5 euro for a fucking DLC which includes but one item? That's shit I'd expect from an asian free to play mmo, which means that TF2 is now more of a fucking MMO than it was before this update.

 

[reaven]

Its still my first choice when I want to play multiplayer fps, which I haven't done in a while.

 

[DraQ]

They are out of their derp.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

*doesn't read topic*

this is about the fucking hats, isn't it

edit: fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

After all the retarded drama (omg someone got a halo hat and I didn't, SO UNFAIR), this shouldn't be that surprising, really. And can you really blame them for giving people what they want?

 

[Metro]

Well, I have to admit I thought this was an okay idea when I thought the prices would be reasonable, i.e. fifty cents for some cosmetic stuff... but I'm browsing it now and they are charging $18 for hats. No joke. Yeah, okay, this is a total shameless cash grab.

 

[SharkClub]

The people who buy this shit are no better than the WoWfags who bought that $25 mount.

The fucking retards supporting ideas like this are doing more harm than the people who are putting them out in the first place.

 

[Erzherzog]

Their forums exploded in anger. Even on their own forums the reaction is negative.

I had just gotten into the game again recently. It's a lot of fun but what they did is ridiculous...

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I don't see what the problem is. You're not at all gimped in TF2 if you have 0 special items, and you get guns in random drops which are fairly regular AND from achievement milestones, and hats have 0 influence on gameplay (Ok, extremely minor influence on gameplay if you're going for a set bonus which is not that amazing).

TF2 item store is stupid but it's easy to ignore. By the way, when they're talking "Community items" they're talking the items that just got added in the patch today. There was a big contest for community item packs and the prize is the items would get added to TF2.

 

[Metro]

Most of the rage is from people making something out of nothing crying that people will have an 'unfair advantage' which is pretty irrelevant considering it's a fairly casual shooter.

Of course, to buy a full set for one class is $20... the whole bundle is $50. If someone is dumb enough to spend that then more power to them.

 

[Mangoose]

I don't see what the problem is.

Because nothing is without compromise. Once publishers finally realize how much money they can make off retards buying retarded shit with real money (a la DLCs), they will shift more budget and time towards said retarded shit, away from real gameplay development

 

[Quilty]

Just when I thought I was out, the fun gameplay pulled me back in. Can't fight that feeling of getting a five-kill streak as a spy.

 

[1eyedking]

Team Fortress 2 is a joke.

 

[Overweight Manatee]

These are the same items you can unlock through the perfectly legal achievement editor?

Team Fortress 2 is a joke.

 

[Black]

Someone forgot to mention that the items from this update are find-able and craft-able, like before.
Meh, meaningless detail
Today I crafted one of the new hats for Soldier. I didn't pay anything to anyone. I must be doing something very wrong.

 

[1eyedking]

Yes. Playing Fag Fortress.

 

[Black]

My theory is that someone fucked you in the eye and that's how you became 1eyedking, gay homo faggot.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I don't see what the problem is.

The problem, minor as it is right now, is that Valve has opened the door for "pay-to-win" in TF2.

Right now, 5 hats give a bonus when combined with their completed sets. While the other set items are "easy" to find and/or craft, the same cannot be said for the hat. The chances of getting one of these hats without forking over $18 for it are ludicrously small.

Sure, the set bonus that each hat gives isn't game-breaking, but that's not the important thing, it's the principle that's been broken. What's to stop Valve from later introducing the proverbial "I WIN"-weapon into the game, available for only $49.99 from the store? Absolutely nothing.

Don't care? Think TF2 is for faggots? Here's the question: When the success of this little venture reaches the ears of other developers/publishers, what's to stop them from changing their games to have this exact same "innovative" feature?

 

[zeitgeist]

Don't care? Think TF2 is for faggots? Here's the question: When the success of this little venture reaches the ears of other developers/publishers, what's to stop them from changing their games to have this exact same "innovative" feature?

Hasn't it been obvious that this is the imminent future of all online services for quite a while now, though? I don't know why everyone seems so surprised by this, it's just the old "we have their credit card numbers now, so let's see what we can do with them" concept that Kotick's been selling as his own lately.

Social network + credit card numbers = big money. It doesn't really matter what they're selling, they'll always find something to sell, and market it in a way that promotes competition and one-upping between the socially networked credit card owners.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Even the most cash-hungry of korean MMOs avoids putting I WIN equipment for sale. It's mostly convenience stuff like teleportation scrolls, bonus EXP rate, nice clothes, etc. The public backlash is not worth it, specially for a successful game like TF2.

Even Kotick decided to sell a mount with a different texture instead of something that actually matters.