🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:10:15 -0000, "Mark Blunden"
<markdb@spamoff.babylonian.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Eric bb wrote in message <75oh4j$i6e$1@news.iinet.net.au>...
>>I bought Halflife is because of TF2, now TF2 is a standalone product, i
>>felt i've been con to buy HL.  I know HL is a very good single player
>>game, BUT that is not the reason i bought HL.  They marketed HL as the
>>platform for TF2, and i think they realise the good number of followers
>>of TF and which it helps to increase their sales by a great deal.
>
>Has it occurred to you that the large number of people who complained about
>having to buy Half-Life in order to play TF2 are probably one of the
>reasons Valve decided to release it as a standalone? Many people will have
>been in your position, wanting to buy Half-Life for TF2 support, but will
>not have been able to afford to do so. By making TF2 a standalone product,
>Valve answer these peoples' complaints by letting them purchase just one
>piece of software, instead of one piece of software and an add-on.
>Admittedly, by doing so they also piss off people in your position, but
>sometimes you just can't please everybody.
>
>--
>Mark.
>markdb@babylonian.demon.co.uk
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>
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>"Not yet."
>"'Not yet'? Is that famous?"         - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
>
>

Answer me this. Why did they lie about it being an addon, costing many
people $40+