Guess who is next to become sellouts?

If you don't know what this means.. You don't play video games. The last bastion of hope for PC gaming, VALVE, has decided to become sellouts. The already rediculous nitpicking method of making people wait 300+ hours just to get 1 item namely a hat for their virtual dolls seems a bit overkill, and the drama around exploits obtaining these items lead to many people being banned. Lets not forget time limited items.

If you play PC games you know the reference of what TF2 means when it comes to HATS. Stupid little dress up doll items for an imbalanced 24/7 push styled game. Its too hard and complex for casuals to comprehend a 2fort styled game actually involving 2 forts. So to give you an idea, the userbase for TF2 is VERY casual. Much like the users of WOW, they try to argue that the game requires skill, it is pretty hard to argue about skill when you are running around in pixar styled characters that seemed to have jumped out of the nearest kids' movie.


What does this mean? The backlash i can only imagine. Valve has earned A LOT of currency on their friendly likeable cast of casual games, Left 4 dead + TF2.  Left4Dead itself has bombed due to being rushed out of the front door, more people play the original over the sequel and they are trying to sell the sequel for like 7 dollars now, and have been known to hand out that sequel title for compensation to banning wrongfully.

I am not ranting, this is honestly relevent. Because Left4Dead got milked to death by EA(publishers of Left4Dead) , they needed to turn to a franchise that is still alive, which would be TF2. It is always praised, only for its content updates which were free. "were" being the key word. Now the game has turned for the worse. Now it is a cash shop game, similar to something you'd see in a f2p korean game. Now you understand the reason for all those "community" events, they need to build a playerbase before dropping their load onto them, which is a big load of SHIT.

Now it seems very relevant as to why minecraft developer notch has been fishing for publishers like steam, he has a playerbase of 200k+ users, which publishers desperately need to sell games to.