TF2

[piratebuddha]

Womb-Raider,Oct 15 2007, 08:09 PM Wrote:for those of us that own half that its not worth it. But its more expensive to buy tf2 and hl2 ep 2 singly than in the package that includes shit i've already got :/ kind of annoying.

the idea is that tf2 needs a few aspects from hl2:ep2 to run (i believe)...so its easier to bundle them together... they also wanted to push a conceptual game (portal) out there which i already mentioned...

the bundle of all the games is to appeal to people who haven't played the actual hl2 series...

i wanted to play it, but it got away from me and i never had the money... the continuing episodes looked good, but i was going to have to start all over to get the full feel...

the idea is that they want more people to buy the final installment of the half life series than who originally bought hl2... but who wants to buy a final installment of a heavily story based game? they could really only count on the people that played through them all...

so they basically put portal, hl2 and hl2:ep1 out there for free... the price of orange box comes from tf2 and ep2... everything else is basically free...

in doing so they picked up a bunch of people who didn't play through hl2 originally and now have the opportunity to... adding to the market of people they know will want to play the next parts of the series...

the idea of the black box... which was just the new material... was a bit self defeating... they wanted was to push hl2 into the hands of people who didn't want to or couldn't afford to play it... everyone else who overlapped didn't really care because it was still a good deal if you wanted tf2 and ep2 (and portal since its popularity)...

its hard to grasp for some, but it was really a good move on their part.

tf2 will be popular for quite some time... they have more people who are interested in following the hl2 story... and they can expand on portal, maybe even releasing a portal 2 that is longer and has way more puzzles...