Why isn't TFC free?

[Jayse]

Back in the day, I would have payed around $10 for this game. To me, that would have been worth it because there were so many people playing it; now, I don't see why it isn't $0.99 or just flat out free. There aren't that many active servers and there aren't that many active players these days. The people I want to play with don't see the point in paying $5.00 for an old and basically abandoned game. Are they trying to kill such a great and classic game?

I look forward to seeing the price at least being lowered, if not free.
-Owen

[Lulu Star Moonie]

Thanks for asking my question but tfc isn't free because its not as popular as tf2. but well see when its free like fortress forever someday.

[Jayse]

If it isn't as popular, it should be free.

[Lulu Star Moonie]

Yeah. Someday. it will be free.

[Jayse]

Originally posted by 105KevinFan105:

Yeah. Someday. it will be free.

How do you know?

[Lulu Star Moonie]

Oh Sorry well i saw that all two team fortress games were free and oh you know that someday i figured out an offical website that could let me play it for free but you know that i fell the same thing. :>

[Jayse]

Originally posted by 105KevinFan105:

Oh Sorry well i saw that all two team fortress games were free and oh you know that someday i figured out an offical website that could let me play it for free but you know that i fell the same thing. :>

What site?

[Lulu Star Moonie]

Uhhhhhh.
http://www.fileplanet.com/74065/0/section/Team-Fortress-Classic or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-xcGtIX00Q

[pizzahut]

Originally posted by KevinFan105:

http://www.fileplanet.com/74065/0/section/Team-Fortress-Classic

So RealNetworks used to offer two standalone versions of TF1.5 (a name which TFC temporarily had after a major update), a free shareware variant and the full, paid version of the game. However I'm not sure what the difference between the shareware and the full version was.

The link on YouTube looks pirated though.

[Xylemon]

To add insult to injury, when Valve ruined Half-Life with the Steam update, they made CS, TFC, and DMC all cost money when they were free mods. Download the 1.1.1.0 update for Half-Life, comes with TFC and DMC, no charge at all.

[King Dedede]

TFC originally started off as a mod for Quake and Half-life, so I can't understand why it wasn't free to begin with.

[oxmox]

Originally posted by foxbutt:

Back in the day, I would have payed around $10 for this game. To me, that would have been worth it because there were so many people playing it; now, I don't see why it isn't $0.99 or just flat out free. There aren't that many active servers and there aren't that many active players these days. The people I want to play with don't see the point in paying $5.00 for an old and basically abandoned game. Are they trying to kill such a great and classic game?

I look forward to seeing the price at least being lowered, if not free.
-Owen

TF2 has an ingame shop selling all kind of virtual crap, wheras TF has no ingame shop and they charge to make profits.

Team Fortress was actually a modification for Half Life 1 and it was free, same counts for Counterstrike and Day of Defeat.

They were all free but changed into a million $$ business.

[Spaghetti Slurper]

so this thread is like 2 years old and everyone on here probably dropped if. but oh do i remember the days coming home from school to jump on tfc, or cs pre1.6 or dod to drops ome nazis with the thompson. and the best part was as long as you had half life (which why wouldn't you have it was like $40 brand new) you got all of those for free. some of the best online multiplayer fps the world had to offer, all just mods. the communities were great, plenty of custom maps and skins for guns, again all free. plenty of people playing at any time (kinda like how cs:go is now) however it all pretty much ended with the addition of the source engine. i understand that most people went on to dod:source and tf2 (cs was different since 1.6 was so competitive that even now there is a decent following playing it after 2 major reworks of the game). so how isnt tfc and dod both like $1? that way they get something, but still make it very accessible to people who might just want it for a nostalgia run? i understand that i'm complaining about $4 and that might sound ridiculous, or that i can wait until there is a steam sale (which i just missed cause i saw dod for $.99) but thats beyound the point. something that started out free, and is now almost 10 years old, which a dying community, should be less than $5. it really should be.

[Posivated]

Originally posted by Rotting Out:

so this thread is like 2 years old and everyone on here probably dropped if. but oh do i remember the days coming home from school to jump on tfc, or cs pre1.6 or dod to drops ome nazis with the thompson. and the best part was as long as you had half life (which why wouldn't you have it was like $40 brand new) you got all of those for free. some of the best online multiplayer fps the world had to offer, all just mods. the communities were great, plenty of custom maps and skins for guns, again all free. plenty of people playing at any time (kinda like how cs:go is now) however it all pretty much ended with the addition of the source engine. i understand that most people went on to dod:source and tf2 (cs was different since 1.6 was so competitive that even now there is a decent following playing it after 2 major reworks of the game). so how isnt tfc and dod both like $1? that way they get something, but still make it very accessible to people who might just want it for a nostalgia run? i understand that i'm complaining about $4 and that might sound ridiculous, or that i can wait until there is a steam sale (which i just missed cause i saw dod for $.99) but thats beyound the point. something that started out free, and is now almost 10 years old, which a dying community, should be less than $5. it really should be.

The miniscule amount of money Valve would make from making this 1$ isn't worth the 10 seconds it would take to do it. Stop living in the past, Valve doesn't care or want this game to become popular again as it would make no money.

[Iggy Stardust]

...and yet it STILL sells, which makes your logic not only flawed, but outright wrong. Sorry man, TFC is WORTH $5, TF2 is worth ♥♥♥♥♥.

[Mr.Tonguesoff(Not A Furry)]

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