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.
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Ben!!
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 9:56 AMAnd there’s still 3 more class updates to come!
Yoshi
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 10:35 AM3 More classes, and all the items, balances and tweaks from the Team Fortress Beta 2.0.
Valve > All other companies.
ChoM
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 10:16 AMThis is why I love Valve. Best value game I ever bought.
DerangedStoat
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 11:24 AMDefinitely, 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
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 11:14 AMSeriously, that’s why Valve deserves a lot of cake.
fsjk85
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 12:41 PMthen look at how many updates the Xbox and PS3 versions have gotten..
1 and 0
Khuntza
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 8:45 PMdon’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
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 1:41 PMI’m actually looking forward to the last few meet the class videos :D
who am iiiiii
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 4:37 PMFun fact: TF2 is awesome!
Thermal Ions
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 10:55 PMValve 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
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 7:36 PMValve 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.”