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    Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play

    Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play
    Press Release - Valve
    June 23, 2011—Valve, creators of bestselling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead, and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), announced today that after four years and over 200 updates, its popular and critically-acclaimed online action game Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is now Free To Play (F2P).
    The F2P announcement comes as part of the "Über Update". Released today, it is the largest content pack delivered to TF2 since it shipped in 2007.

    New players interested in experiencing what PC Gamer calls "the most fun you can have online" will have access to training and offline practice modes, so they can hone their skills before jumping into the ever-expanding TF2 universe.
    To celebrate the launch of the Über Update, Valve has released "Meet the Medic," the latest in its series of TF2 animated shorts.

    TF2 is now Free to Play for PC & Mac players via Steam.

    For more information on Free to Play, please visit http://www.teamfortress.com/freetoplay.

    For more information on the "Über Update" and "Meet the Medic", please visit http://www.teamfortress.com/uberupdate.
    Source: http://store.steampowered.com/news/

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    Re: Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play

    I was wondering about buying in a steam sale now I will not have too.
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    Re: Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play

    Like Counter Strike, I wonder how accessible this is to new players given the hundreds and hundreds of hours many of the players on TF2 have put in already.

    No doubt that it is a top quality game though.

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    Hopefully they will put up a noob server, fortunately I have played monday night combat so I think I know what I am in for!
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    Re: Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play

    Quote Originally Posted by GheeTsar View Post
    Like Counter Strike, I wonder how accessible this is to new players given the hundreds and hundreds of hours many of the players on TF2 have put in already.

    No doubt that it is a top quality game though.
    This is what put me off TF2 when I got it. I was just getting hammered every time I logged on.
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    Re: Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play

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    Re: Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play

    It was always free to play surely?

    And it was originally more or less free to own as well, given it was a freebie with the orange box

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    Re: Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play

    Although not a big fan of cartoon/cel-shaded style, definately going to give it a try! Still a bit disappointed team fortress "classic" 2 never materialised, the screenies and vids looked promising (like 8 years ago...), it looked like it was gonna be tfc mixed with cs. I hope someone else here remembered those and knows what I mean...

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    Re: Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play

    Quote Originally Posted by ratbasket View Post
    Although not a big fan of cartoon/cel-shaded style, definately going to give it a try! Still a bit disappointed team fortress "classic" 2 never materialised, the screenies and vids looked promising (like 8 years ago...), it looked like it was gonna be tfc mixed with cs. I hope someone else here remembered those and knows what I mean...
    I know exactly what you are talking about

    Wiki has one of the screenshots you are referring to:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tf2_oldstyle.jpg

    I'm still hoping that valve will make a new version of TFC - I'm not really a big fan of TF2, and only play it occasionally..there are still more than enough TFC servers out there with an active population to keep me happy. My biggest gripes are the total lack of grenades (no more conc jumps ), horribly cartoon style and the vastly underpowered snipers (they got totally nerfed).

    How I lament the lack of grenades though..those days of taking a medic from balcony to balcony, down the lift..get the flag, conc jump up the lift and back again...they were great fun. TF2 suffers heavily from their absence.

    TFC is still a much better game , it woudl be awesome to see it remade in the source engine from the ground up..here's hoping for TF3

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    Re: Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play

    I was contemplating getting the Valve Complete Pack. Does anyone know how the free TF2 will affect it? Will it still be a purchased account? Or will the Valve Pack price drop?

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    Re: Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play

    The free to play version is not quite as good as the paid version (certain features disabled), so I wouldn't expect the price to drop much.

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    Re: Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play

    Quote Originally Posted by GheeTsar View Post
    Like Counter Strike, I wonder how accessible this is to new players given the hundreds and hundreds of hours many of the players on TF2 have put in already.

    No doubt that it is a top quality game though.
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    Re: Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play

    With TF2 there is however the shop, which does take your REAL money.
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