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Article #560Re: TF2 is a standalone game???WTF @#@#$
From: Clayton Macleod
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:00
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has it occurred to you that when they say it was to be a free downloadable addon, that it should be a free downloadable addon? heh Mark Blunden <markdb@spamoff.babylonian.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:914450613.18611.5.nnrp-10.c2de551e@news.demon.co.uk... > 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 > To e-mail me, remove the 'spamoff.' from my e-mail address. > > "Do you have any famous last words?" > "Not yet." > "'Not yet'? Is that famous?" - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 113685,23b94f1984c323e8 X-Google-Attributes: gid113685,public X-Google-Thread: 10ec8c,23b94f1984c323e8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec8c,public X-Google-Thread: 10b507,23b94f1984c323e8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b507,public From: "Clayton Macleod" <SPAMSUXcypress@bcsupernet.com> Subject: Re: TF2 is a standalone game???WTF @#@#$ Date: 1998/12/24 Message-ID: <Vbng2.6127$9J3.1609171@newscene.newscene.com> X-Deja-AN: 425455093 References: <75oh4j$i6e$1@news.iinet.net.au> <914450613.18611.5.nnrp-10.c2de551e@news.demon.co.uk> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.1012.1001 X-Trace: newscene.newscene.com 914489205 209.5.143.88 (Thu, 24 Dec 1998 02:46:45 CDT) Organization: Newscene Public Access Usenet News Service (http://www.newscene.com/) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 02:46:45 CDT Newsgroups: alt.games.quake2,3dfx.products.voodoo2,alt.games.half-life