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Author Topic: Team Fortress 2: World's #1 War-Based Hat Simulator  (Read 813365 times)

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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5775 on: June 23, 2011, 08:57:54 pm »
For the next month, my kill/death ratios will be so inflated due to all of the new players  :P
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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5776 on: June 23, 2011, 08:58:47 pm »
Quote from: Bdthemag on June 23, 2011, 08:50:49 pm
Quote from: jester on June 23, 2011, 08:49:40 pm
Forever
Oh god no, game over man. Game over! The Quality of the updates will lower, and most things will have to be bought.

Silly person. TF2 has effectively become Valve's means of promoting the Steam service. Notice that practically every game released comes with promo items - pre-order bonuses and the like, which cost Valve absolutely nothing to provide. Those bonuses aren't a purchase incentive if you don't own TF2. Now, everybody owns TF2, which means it's easier for Valve to use promo items as promotions for other games.

So, TF2 is basically a marketing tool. I find it hard to believe that Valve would allow such a powerful advantage falter due to lack of updates. If anything, we're now more likely to see TF2 continue for a few more years, at the very least. Likewise, "ruining" it with for-pay upgrades would be silly. If TF2 continues to provide as a marketing tool for Valve via Steam, there's no need for the Mannconomy to bring in anything!
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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5777 on: June 23, 2011, 09:01:34 pm »
 Everything has crashed.

 The blog, the forums, the ingame store, everything.
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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5778 on: June 23, 2011, 09:01:42 pm »
Apperently, F2P players cannot wear hats because they are POOR and IRISH
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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5779 on: June 23, 2011, 09:02:21 pm »
Quote from: Vherid on June 23, 2011, 08:53:27 pm
Quote from: RF on June 23, 2011, 07:40:18 pm
inb4 they skip Thursday and do a "Forgetful Friday". :p

The patch is coming out today I thought.

Today, Valve Time. A Friday release would be startlingly prompt.

And what's all this about free TF2 week lasting a month/forever? Seriously? I can't get the main page to load, presumably due to crippling Meet the Medic traffic. Also, most epic Meet the Video yet.
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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5780 on: June 23, 2011, 09:03:16 pm »
Quote from: Duke 2.0 on June 23, 2011, 09:01:34 pm
Everything has crashed.

 The blog, the forums, the ingame store, everything.
As long as the download servers stand, I'm happy.
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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5781 on: June 23, 2011, 09:03:51 pm »
God damn; medic is disturbing.

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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5782 on: June 23, 2011, 09:04:23 pm »
Quote from: kinseti on June 23, 2011, 09:02:21 pm
Quote from: Vherid on June 23, 2011, 08:53:27 pm
Quote from: RF on June 23, 2011, 07:40:18 pm
inb4 they skip Thursday and do a "Forgetful Friday". :p

The patch is coming out today I thought.

Today, Valve Time. A Friday release would be startlingly prompt.

And what's all this about free TF2 week lasting a month/forever? Seriously? I can't get the main page to load, presumably due to crippling Meet the Medic traffic. Also, most epic Meet the Video yet.
It says 'Forever' in the video
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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5783 on: June 23, 2011, 09:04:42 pm »
Quote from: FunctionZero on June 23, 2011, 09:03:16 pm
Quote from: Duke 2.0 on June 23, 2011, 09:01:34 pm
Everything has crashed.

 The blog, the forums, the ingame store, everything.
As long as the download servers stand, I'm happy.
Game servers are going offline, can't start TF2 up again.

 Perhaps this is the usual time for such huge updates to process over there, perhaps the servers need to be down for an hour or something.

 Or everything is crashing and burning.

 Edit: Digging how the spy head in the freezer was smoking.
« Last Edit: June 23, 2011, 09:06:18 pm by Duke 2.0 »
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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5784 on: June 23, 2011, 09:05:50 pm »
The update was too Über.
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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5785 on: June 23, 2011, 09:09:51 pm »
 Update downloading.

 Stuck on 4 minutes 13 seconds left.

 Fuck that guy. You know who.
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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5786 on: June 23, 2011, 09:09:56 pm »
Quote from: Duke 2.0 on June 23, 2011, 09:04:42 pm
Quote from: FunctionZero on June 23, 2011, 09:03:16 pm
Quote from: Duke 2.0 on June 23, 2011, 09:01:34 pm
Everything has crashed.

 The blog, the forums, the ingame store, everything.
As long as the download servers stand, I'm happy.
Game servers are going offline, can't start TF2 up again.

 Perhaps this is the usual time for such huge updates to process over there, perhaps the servers need to be down for an hour or something.

 Or everything is crashing and burning.

Well, a bunch of people probably saw "Free to play!" and instantly queued downloads.

The rest of the community has TF2 set to autoupdate.

I'd like to point out that TF2 just started to update for me, and it's processing at roughly ~200kB/s, occasionally dropping down to 75kB/s or lower. I usually get ~2MB/s when updating/downloading. So, yeah, there's a heck of a lot of people downloading stuff right now.   ;)

And the blog/forums always go down during updates, as everybody and their cat is trying to check out the blog for info about the update, or the forums to discuss/ask what the blog would say if it wasn't down. Talk about being whipped into a frenzy. (My last post in this thread had seven responses before I could post it. Imagine the number of posts on the actual forum!  :o)
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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5787 on: June 23, 2011, 09:11:12 pm »
Okay, I have to admit Meet the Medic is way better than I expected. I can't wait for Meet the Pyro.
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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5788 on: June 23, 2011, 09:16:02 pm »
Hurm.

Should I consider playing this game?
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Re: Team Fortress 2: Über update! "Danke, Dummkopfs!"
« Reply #5789 on: June 23, 2011, 09:16:33 pm »
Haven't seen MtM yet, but saw an article about it being Free to Play. Crazy man.

Wait, what happens to everybody who already bought it?
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