End of the line, disappointing and without a purpose

[Tony Two Times]

Now I, like every single long or moderately standing TF2 player was excited for the end of the line. When we first saw the trailer we were all hyped beyond our wildest dreams. "Finally, a entirely community driven update with valve backing it up. Not just hats, but new and exciting weapons and maps!"

What we got was a quarter of an hour Sfm flick that didn't live up to the hype in any way shape or form, and was quite frankly laughable when compared to the recent Expiration date. And was, in my opinion at least, but then again I'm a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, inferior to the recent Action winner of the 2014 saxxies.

What was worse than this was the actual update! Love and war brought in cool new additions to the game. And while not everybody likes the taunts, I'm fairly certain we could all get behind the new weapons.

Then comes end of the line. With no new maps, a cross-sign melee reskin, and unusual effects that are either unrelated to the movie or just plain stupid. (Sunset effect being the former, duck being the latter)

The only positive thing that came out of this update for me were the new cosmetics. And you know what, that's complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ BS! The only reason we were sort of ok with this when Robotic Boogaloo came out was because we knew that these were community created, and that this was the first ever entirely community driven update.

But you wanna know something? ROBOTIC BOOGALOO DID NOT HAVE 1 YEAR OF HYPE, FOLLOWED BY FALSE PROMISES AND A MEDIOCRE PIECE OF ANIMATION!

Valve, i love you guys, trust me I do. But this is not acceptable. Do not go around showering everyone with false promises and then expect everyone to forgive you. People forgave Mannconomy, people forgave nerfing some of the most fun load outs in the game. We as a player base can look past that. But if you are just flat out going to not deliver on what you've told us then I'd prefer if we just hadn't gotten anything, at least then we wouldn't have to live with this feeling of betrayal.

Now, as I've spent about half an hour writing this, I came to the horrible discovery that many in our beloved community is shifting the blame to James Mcvinnie. The big man himself that was originally behind the end of the line.

People have been saying that "Valve never promised anything, it was just McV who had to open his big mouth and talk ♥♥♥♥."

But here's the thing. Valve did promise something. They promised something to McV. The man was given almost free reign over this update. He was the one who found artists who made the cosmetics. He assembled a team of dedicated people that made this animation. Valve had told him that weapons and maps were A-ok. But that they had to deem/balance them. However, apparently somewhere down the road McV got a punch in the gut, because now we have nothing but a reskin, which we can add to the growing list of those ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ things.

I don't know who I feel more sorry for. Us, who got our hopes crushed by valve, or McV who got his goals crushed by them.

That's all, leave your comments about how I'm an irrational ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ spod below.

[FUMO GAMING]

You sir....have made the most sense of out all of this BS

[Deathconsciousness]

Didn't even read.
C'mon you went up into False hype and this is what you got.
Blame Community, not Valve for making a promise on one Flim and the community making Theories on guns or something like that.

[Moodi]

ok i see your point but tbh im fine with the new stuff i just uncrated a unusual with a new effect so im happy

[Tony Two Times]

Originally posted by SkinnyGiver.Inc:

ok i see your point but tbh im fine with the new stuff i just uncrated a unusual with a new effect so im happy

If you're fine with the new stuff then that is entirely up to you. But I was like many others disappointed by the lack of effort put in by valve.

[Moodi]

Originally posted by »вᴮ« The one True Prince:

Originally posted by SkinnyGiver.Inc:

ok i see your point but tbh im fine with the new stuff i just uncrated a unusual with a new effect so im happy

If you're fine with the new stuff then that is entirely up to you. But I was like many others disappointed by the lack of effort put in by valve.

i would probably agree if i didnt get anything good but i did expect a little more out of EOTL

[Tony Two Times]

Originally posted by Mountain Dew Doge:

Didn't even read.
C'mon you went up into False hype and this is what you got.
Blame Community, not Valve for making a promise on one Flim and the community making Theories on guns or something like that.

If you would spend a little time researching into this, then there was an interview with McV were he said valve had allowed him to create new weapons for the update, and we even got concept art for a mini gun and a flamethrower.

Also, when a fan project gets backed by the company the fan project stems from then I'm fairly certain we are allowed to be excited.

[Suspicious]

Originally posted by »вᴮ« The one True Prince:

Originally posted by Mountain Dew Doge:

Didn't even read.
C'mon you went up into False hype and this is what you got.
Blame Community, not Valve for making a promise on one Flim and the community making Theories on guns or something like that.

If you would spend a little time researching into this, then there was an interview with McV were he said valve had allowed him to create new weapons for the update, and we even got concept art for a mini gun and a flamethrower.

Also, when a fan project gets backed by the company the fan project stems from then I'm fairly certain we are allowed to be excited.

Don't think of it as dissapointing.

Think of it as Valve temporarily giving the reins to the player base. This was probably just a trial run of bigger and greater community-driven updates to come. And while it may not be completely satisfactory, we can at least agree that EOTL was a good show of trust between Valve and the community. :)

[moms house]

What really annoyed me is that to have the update affect you at all, (other than ducks on the ground and a reskin) you have to pay $5. It isn't even that fun to get a duck streak, and it seems like it was just done at the last minute because they forgot to make an update. I hope they were just focusing on smissmas, not forgetting about tf2.

[Lawgx™]

this update isn't 100% community, from the update to me the community made 20% from the work (the 5-6 cosmetic) 80% from Valve (more cosmetic,re skin weapon, and ducks)

it isn't McVee's fault, Valve is. that duck jokes needs to stop, a one time joke is always funny overusing it isn't funny, it's childish and annoying.

but hey, from the SFM it shows a lot of kittens so....kitten hype guys?

[Rig R. Mortis]

The first unusual I ever uncrated was an unusual Bloke's Bucket Hat. With the Molten Mallard effect. I'm still having an anger-induced stroke from it, and it's been a damn week.

End of the Line was overhyped, and everybody bought into it. You just can't afford to hold your breath for things like this today. I hope somehow there will be something that can redeem all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ducks.

This update has left me with nothing but a hatred of ducks.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

it wasn't meant to be an update
it was just an sfm trailer
maybe the guy that made it tried to make it an official some what moderate update but valve pulled the plug last min
they thought that the weapons were too op'd/broken and lets face it, considering how the love and war update weapons turned out
as for the map being pulled it's just a map i honestly do not have an opinion on how that would turn out but it was really a low ball move for valve to pull it out
still seeing as how it was a new game mode/map im guessing there would be ALOTTT of glitches and exploits just look at the last new doomsday halloween map we had

[BillyTheFish]

McV has been royally shafted here.

I don't see why Valve, who clearly no longer care as much about TF2 as they used to would pull the rug out from under someone who DID care enough to prep a whole update for them.

And to do this at the last minute after teasing the update since January (yeah, all the 'great new things' you had lined up for 2014, guys) just to offload some more community tat and a pointless duck counter is sticking two fingers up to both McV and the paying punters.

[nanocamocat]

i hope there will be new weapons for the cristmas update and not just an ugly reskin

[Mikasa Ackerman]

eotl really was disappointing

[Galactic Yoshi]

Originally posted by Warfighter:

eotl really was disappointing

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