This has been a feeling growing inside me for a while now, but i just can't play TF2 anymore. The point of it seems lost with all the stupid hats and the farming of hats and the stupid crafting system that really doesn't help that much.
It seems that TF2 is all about farming hats now. I'm sick of leaving the game on at night on an idle server and in the morning i didn't get shit cause for some random reason i got dropped, or idling 12 hours and only get 1 item.
I dunno what the hell the TF2 team was thinking when they decided to force people to farm idling time to get hats. I rarely start the game to have fun in it anymore. There's also lil point in making hats now if when u make one, it'll b random and if they'll release more hats in the future, it's a fucking paradox.
Whenever i do try to pick up the game to have fun with it again, i always end up in an average team against another average team with 1 or 2 guys in it that are either really skilled or have a cheap tactic that works against my team cause no one is attempting any kind of teamwork.
On an unrelated note, yesterday and today were so incredibly boring i decided to pick up C# and try to make a small program. It was ok, progress was slow but i was able to google most stuff and debug the bugged as hell examples online (seriously why would someone post an example with half the code missing?), but i got stuck at a part where i needed to resize a picture inside a picture box, my problem is that C# blurs the fuck out of zoomed images, and i needed it to be pixelated. I even found a tip on using bilinear resize, but it didn't do anything at all. Since it defeats the point of the application i was making, i put a fork in it.
It often annoys me that I'm a software major, but in college we we're taught any language to a point we would b comfortable with it, we experimented with a lil of everything but if someone asked me to make something, i wouldn't know what to pick. that's why i was hoping to make something in C#. Can't say i wasted my time though, i'm sure the way things have been i wouldn't had done anything at all anyway.
No, wait. WHEN did Valve force people to farm for hats? Did you ever need a hat to play TF2 EVER? No, I'm sure you didn't. It's the mindset that you NEED a hat that's ruining yer games, pal, not valve's implementation of them. You want to have fun, chief? You want to have a good time playing the game? Fuck hats. Find yerself a good, dedicated server to play on regularly, trust me, there are plenty out there. And if by some stroke of luck you DO get that silly avatar item you were hoping and praying for? Goodie-goodie-gumdrops for you. I think you'll find your game won't change a BIT.
ReplyDeleteoh wow, i never heard that one before.
ReplyDeleteno seriously, why do people keep pulling the "u don't need hats to play" line? do they think they're original and that i haven't heard that like like 50 times before?
obviously no one needs hats to play, but most people do like the damn things, and to get them, u need to have the game running as much as possible to the point where u have the game running all the time.
it creates this feel that if u don't have the game running, u're wasting chances.
"as long as the game is on, u might as well play it" u may think to yourself, but there's only so much one can play that game nonstop. playing the game on a normal server actually slightly reduces ur chances of getting items.
this entire thing creates this weird mindset where u just can't enjoy whatever u choose to do.
non of this crap would happen if they didn't base this entire thing on a random system.