Author Topic: Team Fortress 2 is Free! (Read 5107 times)

Arm0r · « **on:** June 23, 2011, 07:35:40 PM »

To all of you who may have heard of the game but never wanted to pay the money to play it, now is your chance. It's free!

Feel free to download and try it out! Great game!

http://store.steampowered.com/

THERSOfi · « **Reply #1 on:** June 23, 2011, 07:42:22 PM »

Oh great, *insert smartass comment about how TF2 blows ass*.

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #2 on:** June 23, 2011, 08:12:06 PM »

I don't know what "steam" is, but something tells me not to trust it.

Arm0r · « **Reply #3 on:** June 23, 2011, 08:23:34 PM »

Quote from: |iR|Focalor on June 23, 2011, 08:12:06 PM

I don't know what "steam" is, but something tells me not to trust it.

Steam is a cloud, it links all games purchased through steam for updates. You can go ahead and check it out, Steam has been around forever.

Valve owns steam.

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #4 on:** June 23, 2011, 08:39:58 PM »

That's kinda what I thought. I'm not crazy about the idea of these games having crap included with the install that embeds these little exe's and dll's all over the place. Sometimes it's hard enough to get this piece of shit jalopy computer to start WITHOUT having these crazy unnecessary programs that run in background 24/7. I think I tried a Hoyle puzzle and board games thing that had an update thingy that would start whenever the computer booted up. Luckily I noticed it and deleted that EXE, who the hell knows what ELSE it could do besides notify me of updates to the game. Hell, even Photoshop has that kinda crap in it. I torrented an older version of Photoshop to paint up some cars back when I was racing Nascar 2003 Season with BTR, and it had some weird mDNSResponder.exe that it included. Apparently its some kind of Apple background app usually associated with iTUnes and shit like for updates. Don't got iTunes and don't want iTunes. Nah, giddafuckouddahere weird DNS program.

VaeVictis · « **Reply #5 on:** June 23, 2011, 09:25:46 PM »

Quote from: |iR|Focalor on June 23, 2011, 08:39:58 PM

That's kinda what I thought. I'm not crazy about the idea of these games having crap included with the install that embeds these little exe's and dll's all over the place. Sometimes it's hard enough to get this piece of shit jalopy computer to start WITHOUT having these crazy unnecessary programs that run in background 24/7. I think I tried a Hoyle puzzle and board games thing that had an update thingy that would start whenever the computer booted up. Luckily I noticed it and deleted that EXE, who the hell knows what ELSE it could do besides notify me of updates to the game. Hell, even Photoshop has that kinda crap in it. I torrented an older version of Photoshop to paint up some cars back when I was racing Nascar 2003 Season with BTR, and it had some weird mDNSResponder.exe that it included. Apparently its some kind of Apple background app usually associated with iTUnes and shit like for updates. Don't got iTunes and don't want iTunes. Nah, giddafuckouddahere weird DNS program.

far as i know steam is just steam, not as embedded as something like itunes...

i even keep steam on my second hard drive so i dont have to re install everything when i reformat

b 0 n Z a 1 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 23, 2011, 09:28:58 PM »

good find, i loved the orginal one. never tried this one, installing now

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #7 on:** June 23, 2011, 10:04:00 PM »

Quote from: VaeVictis on June 23, 2011, 09:25:46 PM

Quote from: |iR|Focalor on June 23, 2011, 08:39:58 PM
That's kinda what I thought. I'm not crazy about the idea of these games having crap included with the install that embeds these little exe's and dll's all over the place. Sometimes it's hard enough to get this piece of shit jalopy computer to start WITHOUT having these crazy unnecessary programs that run in background 24/7. I think I tried a Hoyle puzzle and board games thing that had an update thingy that would start whenever the computer booted up. Luckily I noticed it and deleted that EXE, who the hell knows what ELSE it could do besides notify me of updates to the game. Hell, even Photoshop has that kinda crap in it. I torrented an older version of Photoshop to paint up some cars back when I was racing Nascar 2003 Season with BTR, and it had some weird mDNSResponder.exe that it included. Apparently its some kind of Apple background app usually associated with iTUnes and shit like for updates. Don't got iTunes and don't want iTunes. Nah, giddafuckouddahere weird DNS program.

far as i know steam is just steam, not as embedded as something like itunes...

i even keep steam on my second hard drive so i dont have to re install everything when i reformat

IT'S NEW! I DON'T LIKE IT! YOU KIDS TODAY AND YOUR NEW GAMES!

:curmudgeon shakefist:

wallppen · « **Reply #8 on:** June 24, 2011, 12:06:22 AM »

For like half a second i thought you raced nascar...i was gonna tell you how fucking retarded it was and how all you do is turn left. Then i realized its a game you played. Dang.

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #9 on:** June 24, 2011, 01:04:27 AM »

No, you can't wallhack in Nascar 2k3, sorry to disappoint you.

[BTF]Sigma · « **Reply #10 on:** June 24, 2011, 02:00:57 AM »

Nascar hax ruin the fun.

The Happy Friar · « **Reply #11 on:** June 24, 2011, 06:04:21 AM »

Quote from: Arm0r on June 23, 2011, 08:23:34 PM

Steam is a cloud, it links all games purchased through steam for updates. You can go ahead and check it out, Steam has been around forever.
Valve owns steam.

Steam is exactly the thing that PSN got hacked for being accused of doing: controlling users games & not letting them own them or use them whenever they want.

I'm imagining that there's lots of Lulzec people who use Steam because Valve & Steam were never touched.

It's like a car company only letting you lease a car, not buying, but you still pay the purchase price, you can never sell it, only buy new ones, and if you do something they don't like (like speed, get a ticket, race, find a way to modify it w/o their permissions, etc.) they remove you from ever, ever, EVER owning a car with them again and take all your cars away.

fdrjk · « **Reply #12 on:** June 24, 2011, 06:07:22 AM »

Who could forget the part that people actually care about?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lSzUMBJnc

The Happy Friar · « **Reply #13 on:** June 24, 2011, 08:15:05 AM »

An interesting comparison between games here. There were lots of complaints about Brink because it didn't play like the PR trailers did. That was never a complaint for TF2.

Steam servers to busy so I'm guessing everyone is downloading it. The brink servers must be different because those updates are working fine.

Arm0r · « **Reply #14 on:** June 24, 2011, 01:19:56 PM »

Quote from: The Happy Friar on June 24, 2011, 06:04:21 AM

It's like a car company only letting you lease a car, not buying, but you still pay the purchase price, you can never sell it, only buy new ones, and if you do something they don't like (like speed, get a ticket, race, find a way to modify it w/o their permissions, etc.) they remove you from ever, ever, EVER owning a car with them again and take all your cars away.

I've been using steam since I was a kid, Team Fortress was one of the first online games I ever played. I can open any game I like outside of steam, playing online requires steam and I'm quite glad it does. It is in essence the best anti-cheat system that exists today, you'll be hard pressed to find people hacking because the penalty for being caught even once is steep. You cheat=you lose ALL of your games and become banned. I'd feel better playing a game with a community that big when something like that is in place.....

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