A few months back, Valve introduced the poorly-thought-out system of
\nrandom weapon unlocks in TF2. Previous to that, you’d earn weapon unlocks
\nby playing and getting achievements. Their random system involved a
\npercent chance of getting a random weapon unlock every 25 minutes or so.
\nA few people discovered that this timer would count down even if you were
\nonly idling on a server, so you didn’t even have to play.
\n
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A player by the nick of Drunken_F00l discovered that you’d even get
\nunlocks if you pretended to idle, so he wrote a program that made Valve
\nthink your game was idling. I initially didn’t use it for several weeks
\nafter hearing about it because it sounded hinky. But since so many were
\nusing it without consequence, and because Valve never said word one about
\nit, I started using it. Since the weapon unlocks were random, it was not
\nuncommon to find a duplicate of a weapon you already had. In those
\ninstances, I’d delete one of them (it may have been the original or the
\nduplicate).
\n
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Today, after knowing about this for 3 months, Valve decided the idle
\nprogram was cheating and made the author shut it down. They then deleted
\nall “illegal” items gathered by this “cheating”. And yes, this included
\nweapons that were duplicates. In the case of duplicates, if the original
\nunlock had been deleted by the player, the player is left with nothing.
\nThey’ve now punished their most enthusiastic players by leaving them with
\nless than they started with.
\n
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The end result is that despite having 13 milestones, the meta-achievements
\nthat unlock items, the assholes at Valve have left me with 1 single
\nsolitary unlock. An unlock I don’t even use or like. All of this because
\nof Valve’s fuck up and they were too busy planning this punishment to even
\nask Drunken_F00l not to run or distribute his program.
\n
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Way to go, morons at Valve. Have you been taking customer relations
\nlessons from the fucking RIAA?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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