Spidery_Yoda
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New comic. Polycount at last! Well, soon anyway.

THE MANN-CONOMY UPDATE

http://www.teamfortress.com/mannconomy/

http://www.teamfortress.com/mannconomy/FAQ/

The biggest update in Team Fortress 2’s history is about to go live, letting players pay real money for in-game items. The Mann-conomy Update adds 17 new community-designed items, and the players who created them will receive a percentage of the takings from their sales. Item trading has also been added, along with item customisation systems for you to rename and recolour your kit. There’s a new dueling mini-game, crates of mystery items to be found and unlocked, and special item sets that give you major bonuses for wearing them all at once.
* 17 new community-made items added
    * You can buy items from inside the game
    * Prices range from $0.49 to $4.99
    * Some items can never be found or crafted, only bought
    * You can now trade items with anyone
    * You cannot unlock the new items with achievements
    * You cannot craft or trade an item you bought with real money
    * There’s now a dueling mini-game
    * You can find tools to customise an item’s look and name
    * The new game mode is not in this update
    * Team Fortress 2 is not free to play
What the hell...

Last edited by Spidery_Yoda (2010-09-30 12:05:30)

Lucien
Fantasma Parastasie
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yoda get on TS3
https://i.imgur.com/HTmoH.jpg
Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
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letting players pay real money for in-game items.
Oh hahahahaha

Oh wait you're serious

Let me laugh even harder


AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
https://i.imgur.com/qwWEP9F.png
Uzique
dasein.
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gg steam

insert same complaint i have had against them since 2008

the trading system by this point was actually NEEDED after all the dumb shit distribution they implemented

now they have fucked that up, too.

well tf2 i guess it was nice whilst it lasted
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Dauntless
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sounds good
https://imgur.com/kXTNQ8D.png
Lucien
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There are simply too many weapons to earn them normally by now

also buyable hats ruins the rarity of them completely
https://i.imgur.com/HTmoH.jpg
Uzique
dasein.
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some of those new item descriptions are absolutely hilarious

sniper rifle that does no headshots

a scout pistol that only has a purpose of slowing players

"we will never implement game additions that make such fundamental changes"

oh but it's cool though i get to look like a milk-man

so funny that valve teams up with ETF2L to promote tf2's comp scene and then does this

a game cannot survive when the two aspects of its community are so badly incompatible
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Lucien
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wait so you get a bonus if you wear a full item set

but finding the hat you need to complete the set is near-impossible

so you pretty much have to buy the hat

real nice
https://i.imgur.com/HTmoH.jpg
Dauntless
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Lucien wrote:

real nice
https://imgur.com/kXTNQ8D.png
Uzique
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Lucien wrote:

wait so you get a bonus if you wear a full item set

but finding the hat you need to complete the set is near-impossible

so you pretty much have to buy the hat

real nice
pretty sweet though having the bonus of - sentry damage when you're playing 6v6 league

almost makes having a 3-round rocket launcher worth it

damn they've thought this through so much i just cannot believe how much usefulness is in this update

and thank FUCK i can finally change from axtinguisher to burner that little bit faster now

had to go do a crossword during the wait pre-patch
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i hope valve use some of this extra money to sort their servers out so they don't go down all the time and download at 20kbps
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Finray wrote:

letting players pay real money for in-game items.
Oh hahahahaha

Oh wait you're serious

Let me laugh even harder


AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
From the TF2 blog:

One of the interesting side effects of shipping free updates for Team Fortress 2 over the years has been a large and devoted group of people who write us asking if they can simply buy game items directly. We also get regular feedback from the bean counters on our fourth floor, who -- after watching with tooth-grinding irritation as we shipped over 120 free updates to a three-year-old game -- gently suggested that we "make some f$*&ing money already."

Then it hit us: it'd make everybody happy if we really DID let players buy items directly. Players'd be happy because we actually listened to them for once, and the bean counters would be happy because in-game stores are the future of everything, including making some f$*&ing money already.
So yeah. People wanted it.

Lucien wrote:

There are simply too many weapons to earn them normally by now

also buyable hats ruins the rarity of them completely
From the FAQ:

Q: Why have all my items switched to "Vintage" items?
A: Some items that used to be rare will become more common when they are available for purchase. We wanted to give players this option, but still recognize people who obtained those items “the old-fashioned way” in the past. So we decided to perform a one-time conversion of all the old items into "Vintage" versions, which will never be attainable in the future. This way, those older rare items remain rare (in fact, they're even rarer, because they're limited editions now).
So it looks like our hats just got even rarer. There will be more hats about, but the ones people found already are now rare items.

Lucien wrote:

wait so you get a bonus if you wear a full item set

but finding the hat you need to complete the set is near-impossible

so you pretty much have to buy the hat

real nice
That is stupid and SPUF are already complaining about it a lot. The 'set' hats should be common as anything else. And hey, maybe they are. If they're not i'm sure it won't be long before it's changed somehow.

I want to update the game and look through the catalogue to see the new items.

Last edited by Spidery_Yoda (2010-09-30 12:39:09)

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Uzique wrote:

Lucien wrote:

wait so you get a bonus if you wear a full item set

but finding the hat you need to complete the set is near-impossible

so you pretty much have to buy the hat

real nice
pretty sweet though having the bonus of - sentry damage when you're playing 6v6 league

almost makes having a 3-round rocket launcher worth it

damn they've thought this through so much i just cannot believe how much usefulness is in this update

and thank FUCK i can finally change from axtinguisher to burner that little bit faster now

had to go do a crossword during the wait pre-patch
And finally I can snipe without getting headshot'd all the time by the enemy snipers.
https://i.imgur.com/S9bg2.png
Uzique
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spidery yoda you are such a fucking clueless SPUF humping noob that it's unbelievable

you're shit at the game and you personify what it means to be a casual, no clue fucking idiot

"people wanted it"

people want a lot of things in big crowds, doesn't mean it's always right

almost 70 million people in a small borough of glasgow want heroin... does that mean you should deliver?

shut up and fuck off back to your pub servers and no-headshot sniper rifles

people wanted it. fucking good one. guess the supply:demand curve on call of duty really makes it the BEST GAME OF ALL TIME

fucking morans
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Uzique
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yoda maybe you should email steam again i hear they have  a special inbox for your rim-licking ass shots
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lol
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NooBesT
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Uzique wrote:

spidery yoda you are such a fucking clueless SPUF humping noob that it's unbelievable

you're shit at the game and you personify what it means to be a casual, no clue fucking idiot

"people wanted it"

people want a lot of things in big crowds, doesn't mean it's always right

almost 70 million people in a small borough of glasgow want heroin... does that mean you should deliver?

shut up and fuck off back to your pub servers and no-headshot sniper rifles

people wanted it. fucking good one. guess the supply:demand curve on call of duty really makes it the BEST GAME OF ALL TIME

fucking morans
Yeah because stating that people want it means that a person himself wants it.
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lol
Uzique
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spidery yoda writes like the official community spokesperson of SPUF and valve.

im not saying he directly condones it... just he's a fucking moron about it. you've got to be to have that many posts on SPUF and continue posting.

it's like taking my contempt for the dumbass shit here on bf2s and multiplying it by 10 degrees of extremity, and then increasing the community one-hundred fold. the SPUF forums and their aggregate user-base is like an example of reverse social darwinism: only the dumbest, stupidest and most ridiculously shit noobs stick around to continue discussing shit with one another. i get frustrated even scrolling through the index of that forum and looking at the topic titles. it's like a world so far removed from the actual gameplay that it's unfunny. i imagine concerned housewives would have a more meaningful and cogent discussion of the finer points of grand theft auto's gameplay on their bored-housewives.com forums. the SPUF forums are literally the worst example of a collective gaming community i can think of. it makes gamespot look like the MENSA of multiplayer competition. it makes asian-males.com look like an attractive fap-to home-page.

anything spidery yoda has to say about tf2 is so stained with the flavour of those forums that it makes me want to puke. the ass-sucking quote-trains of valve's handed down gospel from Mt. Sinai; the hedged defense of their actions and design decisions, as if they actually even have a design vision and dedicated ethos that is anything but 'see what people want next week'; the general attitude of supporting valve and/or finding their little boxed-world hijinks funny. i don't think a single thing valve has done has been funny. they haven't even released a good game since the orange box, circa late 2007. everything since then has been either entirely forgettable or critically fucking awful. yet people still make gabe jokes and dick around on the SPUF forums as if the sleeping messiah is gonna wake from his cave and produce us with half life ep 3, team fortress 3 and counter-strike: ultimate and save all of our gaming souls. forget it. they're a company that have totally lost direction and evidently dont know what the fuck they're doing anymore.

i literally think that if valv.e didn't have the steam-platform and steam store, they would be a bankrupt and dead gaming company. for good reason
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anyway is your PC fixed yet
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Uzique
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im not paying to get it fixed.

that's a £300 repair bill for a bunch of games i don't want to play anymore.

im fine using a mac for all my university stuff. pc gaming is dead.

and towards the end of the summer your little circlejerk got boring as fuck, anyway. was going nowhere.
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you're always so extreme, i'll give you 2 - 3 months before you're playing games again
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Uzique
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i just spent 2-3 months at home playing computer games for like 1-2hrs minimum a day

it's not rewarding and makes you feel like shit. now im back at uni i have no reason to be a boring cunt.

so a big no-thank-you to the lucrative proposition of playing minecraft with you and your teamspeak boyfriends for 5 hours a night.

same to the shitfest that is random pub server with complaining and low-skill dutch fucknoobs

doubly so now the quality of random pub servers is, yet again, -15 points
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Uzique. All I'm doing is replying to people with information from the source. There's a lot of new stuff going on and finding the information yourself isn't easy so when someone is unsure about something I give them the information.

I really have no idea what has set you off so badly so i'm going to assume it's some sort of drug rage and ignore it.
Uzique
dasein.
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ooh sweet comment bro you totally got me there, damn you're so on point, high five!

what was like that a dredging of your memory for uzique misc. facts

what a result

you're even more mediocre than usual
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