Ew is pretty much my only comment. I stopped playing it awhile back but now I really have no inkling to ever pick it up again.

I still play it on ocassion. I do love the Medic video, though.

Can't see any downside to this personally. I bet Valve will end up making more money through micro-transactions.

Why did you stop? I was thinking of starting to play this seriously but the whole thing seemed chaotic and not very team based.

It became too clustered and annoying. Art style took a hit, people stopped taking the game seriously in servers where I got a good ping - stuff like that. The game is chaotic, but it's still very team based if that's your thing. For me 'team based' always seemed like a brilliant concept but when you actually played the game there were tons of people that sucked, preventing you from doing anything. Even though I mainly played Spy, the 'solo' class, I still needed to rely on my team to make any permanent push and progress. It just stopped being fun.

I have over 700 hours in it though. It's certainly the best F2P game, even with all of it's issues.

http://botchweed.com/game-news/new-team-fortress-2-plugin-blocks-free-players/

sucks for the F2P players

That's so fucking stupid. PC gamers never cease to find something new to be annoying about.

That's hilarious.

I just bought the 9 49p starter packs for each class :P

I am losing my faith int he human race, as if it matters that much really...

Ah great news, must get my brother to pick this up now it's free. I haven't played it in ages myself though.

CS dethroned as most played game

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

Possibly only temporary. Hell, even Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 dethroned CS: Source for a while when they released.

I now have a reason to care about games that come with hats!