Team Fortress 2 'Pyromania' update launching this week

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  Poopy... Joe? : Crastabule
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    poopy joe, the brave monkeynaut that was lost during launch, talked about in the WAR update from ages pas... : harold.johnson
    • Wait, doesn't that rocket explode? : BlackCat9
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    http://www.teamfortress.com/war/saxtonhale/poopyjoe.htm : CalipsoII
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      LOL, the banana at the bottom of the Pyromaniac page is clickable: http://www.teamfortress.com/pyromania... : CalipsoII
      • hahaha! nice find. : hirez
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  It is so awesome to see Valve continue to put work out for this game. Any other dev would have charged $9... : Saldrin
  • buy some hats! : redfive
  • It's the virtual economy, stupid! : Xulu
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    huh..they make an absolute shit ton of money with the mannco store. that's why this stuff is "free" : IcomeINpeace
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      There was still a shit ton of free content and hundreds of updates before the store ever existed: http://... : pyide
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        I'm sure the store was a part of the game plan long before tf2 was even released.

        Jun 25, 2012 6:04pm PDT
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        I'm sure the store was a part of the game plan long before tf2 was even released. : IcomeINpeace
        • I doubt that. What I'm thinking is that after a couple of updates they had the idea of alternate weapons ... : TheIneffableBob
        • I'd be surprised if it was even a notion for the first few years of the game's life. It came out in 2007 ... : pyide
        • Wrong. There was a GDC talk by a member of the TF2 team where he discusses for quite some time the busine... : repeat2k
        • I'm sure you're wrong. : Barleywine
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    They are putting work into the game because TF2 is a F2P game that generates money. The more people that... : Poor Yurik
    • They're putting work into the game because TF2 is a F2P game valve believes in "games as a service" and n... : Demius
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      it's only been that for the last year or so. they still put a ton of work into a game that made them ver... : mikecyb
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        Most interesting though was the talk about after-sale support, such as the Team Fortress 2 updates. Appar : thecatinthehat
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          They were making money by providing free value to current customers, instead of making money off of curre... : RetroRedEyeJr
          • Sure but those two things don't have to be mutually exclusive and they seem to act synergistically togeth... : thecatinthehat
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          if I recall Valve said they were breaking even as far as the amount of sales offsetting the people they h... : mikecyb
          • You are completely ignoring the fact that TF2 requires Steam, and Valve's main goal is getting people on ... : Poor Yurik
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  Man, I can't seem to get the Diary or Capacitor. Dumb drop rates. : Fenring42
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    anyone know what this stuff does? : Barleywine
    • It decodes to a line from Sherlock Holmes, but being as this is Valve, I'm willing to bet that if you get... : Fenring42
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  Is there some place I can read the "backstory" of TF2? I've lost track of the whole deal with the Austrai... : Schnapple
  • Australia+Hats=Crocodile Punch http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ddko3VmQ1qgo0tko1_500.png : Crimsonbeak
• yea finally Meat the Pyro!!! my fav class....before his update : head crab
• Backstabbin time! : Techy007
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  RELATED: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=77681511 SO AWESOME. LIKE AND FAVORI : rasputinreborn
  • done & done : Nation
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  Prediction: The pyro is either a robot/not human or genetically bred to be genderless. : Alexrose
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    My prediction: Either the issue will not be addressed or will be left purposely ambiguous as part of a co... : Magitek
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      ^^^ they are too smart to kill the mystery. : rasputinreborn
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        (though only saps think pyro is female) : rasputinreborn
        • i think its a lady-boy myself. : AMikaboshi