Wow, defending underhanded corporate strategies. That'll get you far in life. In the wrong direction, of course, but hey, it's progress, right?
Right?. . .
Well that's good. I got Family Practice just by perseverance, I guess. Autoclave certainly seemed bugged to me for a bit. I have it, but I don't remember actually getting it. Must have not been paying attention.
It's hardly that. The social rejects tend to connect themselves online on their own, ad nauseum.
Rest assured, the Steam Community is a marketing ploy and not a feature they built with our best intentions. Never assume the best of any corporation, even if they are of the type that provide you...
"As long as they don't have too many I think they're a great idea. Encourages community use and doesn't afraid of anything"
That's the problem. They add this sort of thing to make you use the community thing. And why do they have the community thing? So you have a group of players to exert...
I believe that's incorrect. If you look at the latest stats, I believe you'll find the engineer's wrench and the demo's bottle currently have a higher crit percentage than the bonesaw. (And a week ago, the scout's bat was above the bonesaw.)
http://www.steampowered.com/status/tf2/tf2_stats.php
Grow up? Impatient? Nonsense. They said it would be this week. Now they say it isn't going to be this week. They do this EVERY TIME. Expectations were created by Valve and then disappointed. I hardly think it's childish or impatient to be annoyed at Valve's constantly doing this sort of thing...
A Valve employee in an interview said the week of the 20th. That's good enough for me. If it was incorrect, somebody else from Valve would have corrected it.
Why do people insist on making up this scenario where the date was just a rumor when it patently wasn't...