Well, I bought TF2 for €20, but I haven't purchased anything from the store, so fuck that guy.

@lordofultima said:

The PC community contradicts itself. We want games, oh no player base, becomes F2P, now they're elitist and try to segregate themselves. What on earth kind of logic is that?

Honestly, the reaction to F2P by the TF2 community has been overwhelmingly positive. On most servers I play on, people will see a F2Per doing something wrong, laugh a little and maybe record it for posterity, while at the same time helping them out or explaining what they need to do.

There are a very small handful of jerks (mostly the users on the Steam user forums who complain about everything and barely know how to play the game themselves) who like to pretend they're much better, but it's way smaller than you'd expect based on how enthusiastic the community is.

When TF2 players heard about this mod, our immediate reaction was, "Oh, for like trade servers. It'd be dumb on regular servers, but nobody's gonna use it there."

Well, if you are running your own server, you run it as you want. If you want to restrict entrance to only people who have bought the game before it went F2P, where's the problem with that? F2P players can go and pick another server, as simple as that. There's no more seggregation here than preventing people with an X amount of ping to enter the server, or blocking IPs from X region.

Well, I bought TF2 for €20, but I haven't purchased anything from the store, so fuck that guy.

Get rid of the stupid hats and stat based weapons and i will re-install TF2, till then that game is dead to me, valve ruined it.

The first time i got my own laptop with a reasonable video card two years ago, I downloaded Steam and participated during the TF2 free to play weekend...I had a lot of fun and decided to buy the game when Steam gave a 10% discount for participating.

Now with TF2 going F2P, I get to play with friends who didn't own TF2 and I have a lot more fun because of it.

Thanks, Valve.

i got the game for free the other day, but i honestly dont really see the problem with this. sure its elitist and douchey, but who cares? its only on private servers who specifically dont want free players on it. 
 
i havent ran into anyone who's been rude cus i was a new player or free player. if i did i'd just find a new server, theres an insane amount of them lol

New players=easy kills. I don't see the problem.

Seriously it's been so much fun playing as a heavy mowing down everyone just running out into the open. I heard it's been heaven for snipers too.

Jesus fucking Christ Patrick.. Your articles are amazing. Alex has done alright as well.

I don't see the problem with this... If it's on a private server, then they can do whatever they want. People run absolutely retarded party/music/gravity mods all the time. Just join one of the other hundreds of servers.

Spend .99 cents in the store and bada-bing your upgraded.

Amazing article Patrick. As for this mod though, I agree with @Joru , why would anyone want to play on those servers with the people who are stuck up enough to have the mod on it? I've only had TF2 for about 8 months, and don't play very often, but when I do I just wanna have fun with people who aren't going to bitch because I'm not super good at the game. I also only join a total of like 3 servers, and if they are full I just won't play.

@handlas: you're such a hipster :P

No problem here. People pay to run their own servers so they should be allowed to do this. I don't really agree with it but I bought the game years ago so I can pretty much play anywhere.

I bought TF2 on steam and have yet to play it..

I have no problem with the new players... But I can understand people getting mad at this. I have found so MANY assholes this last week and they where all F2P... This almost never happened to me. It's just about finding the right servers. I spend most of my time in private servers like TF2M and stuff like that so I don't bump with morons all the time like in the valve servers.

@S0ndor said:

Well, I bought TF2 for €20, but I haven't purchased anything from the store, so fuck that guy.

Huh?  " anyone who purchased Team Fortress 2 in the past automatically became a premium member when the switch was pulled."

Amazing article Patrick. As for this mod though, I agree with @Joru , why would anyone want to play on those servers with the people who are stuck up enough to have the mod on it? I've only had TF2 for about 8 months, and don't play very often, but when I do I just wanna have fun with people who aren't going to bitch because I'm not super good at the game. I also only join a total of like 3 servers, and if they are full I just won't play.

I welcome the F2P people with open arms

The best part about this is seeing real life politics and prejudice recreated virtually. Screw other people having fun! If there is a possibility I won't get my way 100% of the time then fuck it! I want my perfect society to stay the way it is!

@zaglis said:

@Styl3s said:

Get rid of the stupid hats and stat based weapons and i will re-install TF2, till then that game is dead to me, valve ruined it.

Nobody cares. Everyone else is having fun playing with the new weapons and map(s).

Apparently you care enough to reply.

And LOL @ all the fanboy replies, to the kid who says go play COD, i don't play COD.

Sorry i don't love your precious valve game.

Thanks for the news, Mr, Klepek. When I first heard about the plugin, I assumed it was made by elitist jerks who didn't want all the other kiddies to have fun in their exclusive club. Now I see there's some logic to it and some legitimate applications. In the end, hopefully everyone everywhere will get along and have fun playing a great game together.

Oh the things people bitch about on the internet will never surprise me.

I bought the orange box for pc way back when and have never used it to play tf2, because I wasn't, and am still not, interested at all. so you have nothing to fear from me, I guess.

This is a unique perspective on the debate. Personally I don't mind the mod. Most servers probably won't even have it. On a side note I thought I read that it can be used to kick non F2P so there can be F2P only servers.

TF2 doesn't interest me. Bring on DOTA 2 but if you can't deny creeps and not lose money when you die like in the noobish LoL, DOTA 2 will be dead to me.

Good article. I see reporting like this elsewhere and now I see it here. Idk how to feel about this. If it was aimed more directly at assholes, and lets face it, 99 cents ends the crying, strange as that is, okay. They are private servers, to some extant that should give ppl. control over the venue, I guess. But I would hope to find a valid place to learn the game somewhere without something set up to protect itself from noobie me in effect and still have a good experience with it. Otherwise why bother?

Totally for this, F2P lookie-loos tend to ruin any game that has even the slightest learning curve.

People like to defend their community from "outsiders" and everyone does it differently. Reminds me of the final days of the Matrix and Giantbomb going in a reporting about it. That community was hostile at first, then they chilled out.

Well that's one way to alienate new players. How do they expect the community to grow if they keep kicking those who got the game for free. What valve have done is to be commended, i wish more companies would do this from time to time with some of their older games. It's a good way to get more people onto your service. There will always be people who will never be satisfied, you want to kill your game off then alienate player who got the game for free; really smart move on your part. 

I don't see the problem here. People pay money for their servers, they have the right to chose who gets to play on them.

I don't see the problem here. People pay money for their servers, they have the right to chose who gets to play on them.

I love F2P. Higher KDR.

Giantbomb is now, (most likely has in the past), being posted on Reddit. I found this link on Reddit and followed it here. And that is a good thing.

I can understand putting it on trade servers-in fact, that's a great idea.

I welcome the F2P people with open arms

just play on the valve servers and the problem is averted. 

Good job Patrick.

I guess that the TF2 community has joined the other gaggle of cunts called the internet. Cool. Elitism is rife in this medium, another case in point.

@BassmanPaul said:

I guess that the TF2 community has joined the other gaggle of cunts called the internet. Cool. Elitism is rife in this medium, another case in point.

I guess you've joined the gaggle of cunts who can't read an article

Very interesting read. I have TF2 with the orange box I had a few years ago and every time I jump in a game, I am immediately kicked. Hell, I was even kicked by Will once in the Tested server. I think my time for that game has passed.

I don't mind Free-to-Play. I do mind the ease at which players can start hacking / ban evading now.

Thanks Valve! You potentially ruined a great gaming experience just to catch a few cheap-ass punks in your web.

Shame the technical contents about how this was achieved were not quoted in the article. I would have been really interested to see them.

At least it some some justification. But I have a feeling all those 15 servers aren't just trading ones.

While i don't play tf2 I could definitely see the side of the argument that F2P people are ruining the experience. 

@zaglis said:

@Styl3s said:

Get rid of the stupid hats and stat based weapons and i will re-install TF2, till then that game is dead to me, valve ruined it.

Nobody cares. Everyone else is having fun playing with the new weapons and map(s).

Apparently you care enough to reply.

And LOL @ all the fanboy replies, to the kid who says go play COD, i don't play COD.

Sorry i don't love your precious valve game.

I'm strangely tempted to rent a server and run this mod in the opposite direction, auto-kicking anyone who has a "premium" account, and I don't even like TF2. The thought of even one of these a-holes joining a server, getting kicked, and receiving a "You must have a free TF2 account to play on this server" message warms my heart for some reason.