What percentage chance do you give that Valve will shut down the Team Fortress 2 servers within the next 5 years?
What percentage chance do you give that Valve will shut down the Team Fortress 2 servers within the next 5 years?
At least 0%, but no more than 100%
i've just finally gotten back into the game after nearly a decade off, and thinking about building my inventory back up again with cosmetics and war paints, should i bother, or is it a waste of money considering the possibility that this game just gets dropped at some point in the near future?
69%
Never, it probably costs nothing to keep up, and its not worth making people who play CS:2 or DOTA 2 get scared over their virtual items.
0% as long as they still make money off it.
0% but there's maybe a 0.1% chance it gets the CSGO treatment and ported to Source 2 with a rebrand as Team Fortress 3
Hard to say.
TF2 servers are not expensive to run in terms of processing power needs, even when considering that Valve is likely running around 200 servers globally for match making, it probably doesn't cost them more than $10K to $30K per year. Which is nothing for a large company like Valve and TF2 easily more than pays for it's self in MvM ticket sales alone.
The real question, is how long will Valve keep the Item server running. Since that isn't something you can just hand off to the community and is integral to Steam.
What they need to do is make a Team Fortress 3.
Or at least put TF2 on Source 2.
warpaints are a waste of time don't even bother
Valve makes money off of every market exchange.
Why in god's name would they stop that?
Aren't cosmetics more of a waste of time? At least you can see the warpaints when you play.
cosmetics
if you like them sure
war paints
Unironic slop that killed 40% of the game's performance and flopped anyway
It's FASHION, Anon. Something i take it you don't engage in too much. How you come off to others is sooo much more important than seeing your gun in a different color. How else would people be able to tell if you're based or cringe?
Better question, What percentage chance do you give that Valve do another balance patches to nerf Sniper and Soldier
They literally can't ever shut it down. Not without compensating every single player for the value of their inventory.
0% because Counter Strike 1.6 is still up.
This is so stupid.
Most classes have several soft counters, and even more so if you count "subclasses"
This reminds me how Meet the Scout had him running past sentries.
Sniper should be modified to weak to nothing
but muh spy
Razorback exists
What would be the legal basis for this statement? An EU thing?
0
I kinda want it to happen just so I can see the trader meltdown.
Demo countered by scout
Maybe if you're shit, but they can't seem to help themselves from running directly into my pipes and sticky traps.
The bots generate revenue for Valve through the Steam marketplace.
I think it's a stretch to claim Valve is intentionally ignoring the bots because they make money. But they're sure as hell not going to shut the servers down.
Retard thinks a company and their endless EULAs and TOSs would ever let a consumer own anything. You are probably revocably licensing your steam inventory from the owners (Valve)
i don't understand how bots are supposed to make valve money in any way, especially after a metric fuckton of both trade-bots and spam/aimbot bots were banned and have stayed banned
Yeah if you have a skill issue.
Sniper is a wet paper bag to anything within 512 hammer units of him.
throws jarate at you
A good sniper can shut down an entire lobby.
50%
They will announce a Source 2 port after it dies
muh 135% damage increase.
You got so many options at that range anyway. A good half of Sniper's take a passive secondary anyway, so they are going to have to rely on melee, or his rifles to deal with you.
Also normal random crits from his melee, is going to be a bigger threat than jarate since its going to deal 195 damage. But literally every class except for Scout and Spy is capable of that.
Nobody considered Sniper OP until we had cheat bots running Sniper for 5 years and TF2ubers made a bitch video about him. Because they can't tell what a sightline is.
turns around
quickscopes you at close ranges
taunts
dude nobody said sniper was op until youtubers said so!!!
the fucking developer commentary of the game has people talking about how sniper is too good
Oh, so this Sniper in question is using ESP and wallhacks?
You don't need cheats to quickscope people
0. It makes them tons of cash with almost no overhead.
They absolutely make it much easier to know that someone was behind you.
Valve games economies will collapse overnight if they'll pull the plug on any of their IPs.
We really doing the "respect the sightlines" meme outside of the general?
They will port TF2 to the new source engine, call it TF3(!).
Ignore everybody complaining that their toasters cannot run it anymore.
Let the cheaters and hackers free.
See the game die.
Laugh and announce the 1.0 release of Deadlock.
Name a single good war paint.
Literally every game with long range combat makes you respect sightlines.
Its not even exclusive to the Sniper, you got to respect sentry sightlines or risk nearly instantly dying.
the fucking developer commentary of the game has people talking about how sniper is too good
You mean the one where they immediately continue by talking about how they balanced him? The one before they evidently thought he was fine since they left him alone for years and years of post launch development? That one?