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Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:12 am
by legend4ry
Just thought some fellow gaming geeks would appreciate this news... Had to game for years but good to see new life will be bought into it.


http://www.teamfortress.com/freetoplay/index.php

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:14 am
by wub
Wondered why this was trending on Twitter today :D

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:44 am
by firky
TFC was the better game and free too. I always thought TF2 should be free, especially because it 'feels' like it should. I didn't really like it to be honest, much more of a QTF and TFC puritan :D

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 9:47 am
by horsefeather
TF2 for free is nice

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 9:49 am
by Capture pt
well, it'll make it alot easier for me to rack up points with the massive influx of noobs this brings!

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:32 am
by apmje
Ah they ruined TF2 man. I remember playing it competitively, was fun. Was never going to work though, Valve always intended it to be a pubbie game.

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:40 pm
by collige
I have some concerns about this (namely about the economy and cheaters), but overall this is great.

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:40 pm
by wormcode
firky wrote:TFC was the better game and free too. I always thought TF2 should be free, especially because it 'feels' like it should. I didn't really like it to be honest, much more of a QTF and TFC puritan :D
Yeah TFC is where it's at. I want to reinstall it for some dustbowl and 2fort action.
TF2 was cool at first but got old to me quick. Just something about that old tfc/dod/cs gameplay that keeps me coming back.

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:47 pm
by arktrix45hz
Will be rinsing this as soon as its downloaded!

:corndance: :corndance:

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:51 pm
by volcanogeorge
wormcode wrote:
firky wrote:TFC was the better game and free too. I always thought TF2 should be free, especially because it 'feels' like it should. I didn't really like it to be honest, much more of a QTF and TFC puritan :D
Yeah TFC is where it's at. I want to reinstall it for some dustbowl and 2fort action.
TF2 was cool at first but got old to me quick. Just something about that old tfc/dod/cs gameplay that keeps me coming back.
Dustbowl 24/7 servers have taken several days of my life.

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:32 pm
by legend4ry
TFC Dustbowl describes my early teens perfectly (as sad as that sounds). DoD 1.5 was the one as well.

I like TF2, I ain't much of a competitive gamer anymore and CS/ CS :S was my game anyways so its nice to play a game properly aimed for public play.

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:14 pm
by Kamex
legend4ry wrote:Just thought some fellow gaming geeks would appreciate this news... Had to game for years but good to see new life will be bought into it.


http://www.teamfortress.com/freetoplay/index.php
Yet to play this game , heard its good now i have a reason to play it!

plus im loving how quite a few p2p games have gone free to play :corndance:

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:16 pm
by Alty
Used to love that game, haven't played it in ages, the huge amount of new weapons and weird items completely alienated my from getting back into it properly.

Looks like they've slowly morphed it into a cash shop model. Personally I'm really not a big fan of that, and don't play games where you have to pay real money for special armour/items etc.

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:24 pm
by legend4ry
I was playing last night and was top of the team every map I played without any special unlocks - they really don't give an unfair advantage.

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:50 pm
by ascent
gonna have to get this now, never actually played it. always been cs:s for me, spent far too long on that game :lol:

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 1:32 am
by firky
volcanogeorge wrote:
wormcode wrote:
firky wrote:TFC was the better game and free too. I always thought TF2 should be free, especially because it 'feels' like it should. I didn't really like it to be honest, much more of a QTF and TFC puritan :D
Yeah TFC is where it's at. I want to reinstall it for some dustbowl and 2fort action.
TF2 was cool at first but got old to me quick. Just something about that old tfc/dod/cs gameplay that keeps me coming back.
Dustbowl 24/7 servers have taken several days of my life.
Back when you had to pay £15 a month just for an ISP and then 2p per minute to use dialup internet on top, I managed to rinse up a £600 phone bill in quarter.

Fucking brillaint game. Overall I don't think online gaming is as good as it used to be because of the console kids but I am really looking forward to BF3. Love to sit in on a horrible winters night with a good online game, few bottles, bag of green and the lights low. 8)

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:41 pm
by hugh
it feels like a slow quake 3/quake live. And not as polished or competitive.

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 5:08 pm
by volcanogeorge
firky wrote:
volcanogeorge wrote:
wormcode wrote:
firky wrote:TFC was the better game and free too. I always thought TF2 should be free, especially because it 'feels' like it should. I didn't really like it to be honest, much more of a QTF and TFC puritan :D
Yeah TFC is where it's at. I want to reinstall it for some dustbowl and 2fort action.
TF2 was cool at first but got old to me quick. Just something about that old tfc/dod/cs gameplay that keeps me coming back.
Dustbowl 24/7 servers have taken several days of my life.
Back when you had to pay £15 a month just for an ISP and then 2p per minute to use dialup internet on top, I managed to rinse up a £600 phone bill in quarter.

Fucking brillaint game. Overall I don't think online gaming is as good as it used to be because of the console kids but I am really looking forward to BF3. Love to sit in on a horrible winters night with a good online game, few bottles, bag of green and the lights low. 8)
I'm re-downloading now because of this thread. Goodbye, social life.

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 7:02 pm
by AxeD
Played this from the start and started with it again a month ago. Sounds kind of eletist but the
amount of the new players now screws with the quality of the servers I play on most of the time (Lotus clan, Uberium and Lokalen).
Now I'm just signing up as a coach everytime so the engis know what to do :)

Amount of items is a little overwhelming but they definitely add a lot to the game. No need to pay money for any of them either.

Re: Valve make Team Fortress 2 Free To Play

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:12 pm
by NilsFG
They can give it away for free now because the make enough money by selling virtual hats and shit.