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Team Fortress 2 Gets Updated A LOT

12:00AM November 19, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

There’s an interesting statistic to be found in a Gamasutra interview with Steam’s Jason Holtman, published earlier today. Concerning Team Fortress 2, and just how often Valve feel the need to tinker with and improve the game.

Apparently since the game was released two years ago, there have been 97 updates for the game. 97! That’s roughly one a week, and has to be some kind of record.

Sure, that speaks volumes about the commitment of Valve to the game and the ways Steam allows them to directly service their customers. That’s surely why the point was made. But I like it because it shows how insanely passionate (not to mention important) TF2′s vocal player base is, that their over-bearing presence has Valve so on their toes that they’re updating a game on a weekly basis.

Valve’s Holtman: Digital Direct Gives Developers More Pricing Freedom [Gamasutra]

Comments

  • Ben!!

    November 19, 2009 at 9:56 AM

    And there’s still 3 more class updates to come!

    • Yoshi

      November 19, 2009 at 10:35 AM

      3 More classes, and all the items, balances and tweaks from the Team Fortress Beta 2.0.

      Valve > All other companies.

  • ChoM

    November 19, 2009 at 10:16 AM

    This is why I love Valve. Best value game I ever bought.

    • DerangedStoat

      November 19, 2009 at 11:24 AM

      Definitely, and the thing I still find incredible is that I not only go this fantastic game, but I also got HL2 and Portal essentially for free!
      I doubt there will be release again that gives you such a bargain at full price.

  • Dunnowhathuh

    November 19, 2009 at 11:14 AM

    Seriously, that’s why Valve deserves a lot of cake.

  • fsjk85

    November 19, 2009 at 12:41 PM

    then look at how many updates the Xbox and PS3 versions have gotten..
    1 and 0

    • Khuntza

      November 19, 2009 at 8:45 PM

      don’t bitch to Valve about it.. MS charge for each update and aren’t particularly regular patch friendly.. and PS3? lol..

      TF2 and all Valve games are made by PC gamers for PC gamers.. console owners are lucky to have gotten a sniff of such a great game at all..

  • yikes

    November 19, 2009 at 1:41 PM

    I’m actually looking forward to the last few meet the class videos :D

  • who am iiiiii

    November 19, 2009 at 4:37 PM

    Fun fact: TF2 is awesome!

  • Thermal Ions

    November 19, 2009 at 10:55 PM

    Valve aren’t silly, keeping TF2 alive for so long has brought countless people to Steam who have then subsequently gone on to purchase bucket loads of games from their regular sales. It’s raking in huge dollars that neither Valve or the other Publishers / Developers would have seen a fraction of otherwise. It’s terrific that there’s so many independent developers caught up in benefiting from it too.

  • Nick

    November 20, 2009 at 7:36 PM

    Valve is a bazillion times better than what infinity ward will ever dream to be.

    On a side note: Gabe Newell, the CEO of Valve said they were “filthy rich.”

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