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    Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Team Fortress 2 Free to Play.

    Valve is preparing "the most ambitious update in the history of Team Fortress 2." And what's one feature of the update? The game is going to be free to play.
    Jun 23, 2011 6:30pm PDT
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    Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Team Fortress 2 Free to Play.

    Valve is preparing "the most ambitious update in the history of Team Fortress 2." And what's one feature of the update? The game is going to be free to play. : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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    • well, there ya go. : watcherxpThis person is cool!
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      More new players means more players to OWN!!! : SentryDown
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        It'll also mean an influx of retards complaining it's not free after they see the store before actually p... : pyideThis person is cool!
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          BUT THE COSMETIC CHANGES ARE RUINING THIS GAME : duffman03
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            OK so now I have to buy a neon green DR SUESS hat to be competitive?! People buy items and than they can... : gnomishThis person is cool!
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              HAHAHHAHAHA your such a fool. obviously you havnt played much : donkeycrock
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                yes, gnomish hasn't played TF2 much at all :P : RikiTiki2
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                  i actually think that the cosmetic nature of the items is what killed it, there are so many items and peo... : svetoy
                  • I rarely have people trading in any server I play on. People actually work together with tactics and play... : Total Exodus
              • gnomonster has eleventy billion logged TF2 hours. : project13This person is cool!
            • Please! That hat is best when it's pink. : Grumbeld
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      Now I have incentive to play! Woo hoo!!! : Rohugh
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        The four years of near-unanimous praise wasn't enough? : Happy Doodle Muffin
        • The four years of owning it on 360 and not PC, and also having a million other things to purchase, kept m... : Rohugh
    • I cant believe it.I guess valve Do it. : AxeltheCold
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      wasn't it $5 anyway? : EnderWigginDA
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        Often. I think it was even free at one point before. Maybe it was just Portal though. : JarEme
        • I don't think it's ever been free but it's been crazy cheap, like $1.99 for four hours or something. T... : SchnappleThis person is cool!
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      With all the previous sales, they probably sold as many copies as they're ever going to sell, so they're ... : FpsnutThis person is cool!
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        plus it's a gateway to get people to install Steam, just like Alien Swarm was : duffman03
        • They are sucking in everybody in for TF3 when it comes out in 5 years : donkeycrock
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      Yall wanna hear a crazy idea. what if valve put this on ps3 with steamworks. Sony has show they'd be ope... : nikeforces
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        how is that crazy? they already have portal 2 on there : RikiTiki2
        • It's crazy because although I wish they'd do it, it probably would be too much effort to port it all. : Dontdrop
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          If PC and PS3 players could play against each other? Because the standing issue with putting multiplatfor... : SchnappleThis person is cool!
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            Actually a while or long time ago Microsoft decided to link 360's to some PC's and I think it was Kickass... : Dragzeela
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              In any game with hitscan weapons like a sniper rifle or railgun, mouse users destroy controller users. Co... : qsylvr
              • hopefully FPS games move to the next level of realistic control (better gun peripherals). then it won'... : RikiTiki2
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              They did it with Shadowrun, and they tried to balance it by crippling the mouse controls for PC users. : datoo
              • Shadowrun was so much fun while people played. I remember playing against PC users and it didn't seem tha... : rhuntley12
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        I'm actually curious what the original TF2 release profiled memory-wise on the PS3. The amount of co... : dopefishThis person is cool!
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          Valve didn't work on TF2 on PS3, so I don't think the numbers would really matter much. The Steam engine ... : AndrewYoon
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            What? You mean the Source Engine? It's Been PS3 compatable sonce the Orange Box. Yes Valve didn't work on... : Fenring42
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              Yes but I've heard that the Orange Box port of Source wasn't very good. : SchnappleThis person is cool!
              • The Orange Box PS3 port is terrible. It runs almost entirely on the main CPU and barely uses the Cell pro... : qsylvr
    • Korean item shopped. : cetra00
    • Patch is updating tf2 now : watcherxpThis person is cool!
    • So now the battle between RED and BLU in TF2 will go back and fourth forever for free? : TroZThis person is cool!
    • sucks to be the whatever staff is remaining at Battlefield heroes and p4f these days... : chickdigger802
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      Can you turn off or dial down the violence/blood in TF2? If so, I might be able to get my wife into this.... : SchnappleThis person is cool!
      • You can turn off the gore/blood : Godhatesfatpeople
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        Wait, so your wife would be willing to shoot all sorts of arsenal at cartoon characters with the intent t... : Mystery0000
        • Possibly. I mean yeah this one is cartoony so it might get a pass but nice to know the option is there. : SchnappleThis person is cool!
      • I hate violent video games and soldier/military games even more but TF2 is cartoon-y enough to not bother... : mysled
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      Check out my hotkeys mod, works with all Valve games and mods! http://www.moddb.com/mods/elements-of-war... : IceIYIanThis person is cool!
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        Mods - Comments on that link are suggesting the download contains a virus, also all this guy does is pas... : Durajim
        • He sure likes them hotkeys: http://www.shacknews.com/search?chatty=1&type=4&chatty_term=hotkeys&chatty_us... : HamChowder
      • DOWN VOTE'D >_ : captain hamptonThis person is cool!
    • Watch this trailer with the beginning of Hosue of the Rising Sun. : i38warhawk
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      Did I miss something? Hasn't it always been free to play? : action wombmate
      • If you bought the Orange Box for reasons other than TF2, yes. It still cost money for that bundle and... : pyideThis person is cool!
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        you had to buy a copy of it to play it, now you can just download it : mikecybThis person is cool!
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          Oh, I always thought "free to play" meant that they were basically waiving any type of subscription cost,... : action wombmate
          • Yeah it's sort of a different use of the terminology. What they really mean is that now the game download... : SchnappleThis person is cool!
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      when is the update coming out that turns off all that shit off If I'm not interested in? I rather play... : X-GOUKIThis person is cool!
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        If you're not interested in it, then why is it a problem? Just ignore it and play the game. : atom519This person is cool!
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          that is just it, its all cosmetic stuff that you should be able to turn off if you don't want it. I kno... : X-GOUKIThis person is cool!
          • ^^^ keeps getting decapitated by demoknight. : dodobThis person is cool!
          • Why don't you just ignore it, then? It's not a "hat simulator", for fuck's sake. : NitriumThis person is cool!
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            Does it really offend your sensibilities that much to fight people who are wearing hats? : ZekThis person is cool!
            • OMG WTF HATS : svetoy
          • Why? The core gameplay hasn't changed. : pun][sherThis person is cool!
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        I wouldn't mind seeing a "vanilla" mode free of the new weapons and whatnot. : MmmmmooThis person is cool!
        • Putting in a vanilla mode undermines the store though. : Haxim
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          there are vanilla servers. there have always been. of course, they are extremely unpopular so there's pr... : DownforceThis person is cool!
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            Most multiplayer games don't shit on game balance and release a stream of terrible maps ever 4-6 months t... : Zoopy_Iscariot
            • lol : Durajim
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              You know - when they first started announcing all these new weapons, I thought it would turn into the ine... : atom519This person is cool!
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                Sandvich (in current form) is too good. GRU, Mad Milk, Vita Saw, Wrangler and Equalizer as well. Arguab... : aliasThis person is cool!
                • Almost all of those items are completely situational.. Maybe better for your playstyle or role, but not ... : atom519This person is cool!
            • They obviously don't really care anymore. They are just trying to sell more hats (evident by the fact tha... : dkrulz
            • so you prefer the counterstrike style, where people prefer that nothing changes? TF2 and counterstri... : DownforceThis person is cool!
            • most multiplayer games don't get any support beyond 6 months to a year. TF2 came out in 2007 : mikecybThis person is cool!
      • The addition of items and hats probably makes less difference to the gameplay than playing it on 360 does... : Chipwarrior
      • Sorry, all i saw when i read your post was "Hurf durf blurf murf!" : Dschinghis Khan
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        Sounds to me like you don't play the game regularly anyway, and you wouldn't even if the hats weren't the... : The Grolar Bear
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          i played it for for like two years, then i tried to come back recently and i am like wtf is this childine... : svetoy
          • when was the game ever supposed to be serious? : harold.johnson
          • Yeah, it's not like vanilla TF2 was an incredibly mature experience either. But the hats, the paints, eve : The Grolar Bear
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            For some reason yours and X-GOUKI's posts are coming out as "Hurf blurf murf durf!" I think there is s... : Dschinghis Khan
            • Shack stands up for the worst PC games, shits on the best ones. : HockeyJohnston
          • Team Fortress 2 was a remarkably serious game before all this. I can't believe they ruined the mature, dr... : ColoradoCNC
      • waaaaaah : moe6This person is cool!
      • Well, you don't have to buy hats. Problem solved! : ColoradoCNC
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        Robin Walker said in an email recently that they are figuring out a way to do it. But gave no timeline. I... : Godhatesfatpeople
        • had = has : Godhatesfatpeople
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      Seems like an obvious move. I bet they make more money off the mann-conomy story than sales of the actual... : K1Bond007This person is cool!
      • yeah this is definitely not a profit cutting move. with the top 5 or so games on itunes in gross revenue ... : Chandler55This person is cool!
    • cool. : maneroThis person is cool!
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      One of the new medic guns seems kind of awesome. Faster ubercharge faster heal, but can't overheal. I wis... : eldiablo01This person is cool!
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        No overheal is pretty dicey. : HockeyJohnston
        • and no invuln, so a backstab / headshot will still kill : RikiTiki2
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        I don't know about this update. Some classes got some really cool shit, while others got plain shit. I wo... : Rag and Bone Man
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          all of the new weapons were tested via TF2 Beta for weeks or months : mikecybThis person is cool!
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            eh, that still doesn't mean much. Plenty of the other items were tested for a while only to have them get... : Godhatesfatpeople
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              man I miss the original sandman so much. being a horrible nuisance with it was the best thing. : mikecybThis person is cool!
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                haha that thing was so stupidly overpowered. Valve was smoking crack putting that thing in. : Godhatesfatpeople
                • maybe they should make some items a bit overpowered sometimes, otherwise why would people even want to ge... : svetoy
        • The poor engineer didn't get a damn thing ;-( : atom519This person is cool!
      • the negative properties are needed to balance against the other items. they can't just make an all-positi... : RikiTiki2
    • Just curious, does anyone have any stats in regards to total active players for TF2 on a nightly basis? : Sgt_BoomstickThis person is cool!
    • For those who bought TF2 before it became free, check this out: http://www.cafepress.com/stupidhats : kevin332
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      Is this even worth me trying to play at this point? I feel like trying to join this game at this late dat... : Gentlegamer
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        Well, that game does not require skill, so I'd say go for it. Let the flames begin. : ManiacalMoose
        • At GAF, they're getting lulz over using the Dead Ringer on n00bs over and over. I'm gonna have to do ... : Gentlegamer