The melee in this game feels.. off. The ranged classes are a lot of fun, but I don't care for any sword wielding.

Still haven't bought it, but I probably will this weekend. No intention of subscribing, so I'm glad the Halloween shit was opened up.

They're basically providing a Guild Wars alternative, just that in addition to buying the game you shell out another $150?

For ongoing content, a publisher can either choose to do a monthly subscription, or make expansions.

On the subject of the in-game advertising, poor Kaiser has been misinterpreted more often than I could identify. We chose to have Massive stream ads into our game for two main reasons: It lets us have realistic ads that we approve and which are context-appropriate without having to make up fictional companies or movies or whatever. This really does up the realism of the scene. And secondly, we will make some incremental revenue on it, but it really did start with wanting to have realistic ads in the subway tubes. We make no apologies about wanting to make money as this is a business (and a start-up at that,) but if we didn't think this added to the game, we wouldn't do it. Please ask someone who's in the beta or get some screen shots and see for yourself what the ads look like. It's got to be one of the most unobtrusive, context-appropriate use of ads that have ever appeared in a computer game.

On the subject of the in-game advertising, poor Kaiser has been misinterpreted more often than I could identify. We chose to have Massive stream ads into our game for two main reasons: It lets us have realistic ads that we approve and which are context-appropriate without having to make up fictional companies or movies or whatever. This really does up the realism of the scene. And secondly, we will make some incremental revenue on it, but it really did start with wanting to have realistic ads in the subway tubes. We make no apologies about wanting to make money as this is a business (and a start-up at that,) but if we didn't think this added to the game, we wouldn't do it. Please ask someone who's in the beta or get some screen shots and see for yourself what the ads look like. It's got to be one of the most unobtrusive, context-appropriate use of ads that have ever appeared in a computer game.

I loved the early idea of this game as well as its artwork, but I became really hesitant after watching some of the early preview videos and each time Flagship opened its stupid mouth and talked about another dumb idea.

No offense to you, but i've been shocked how many people just don't even read a few lines in the menus.

More interested in going through the commentaries in the Orange Box first

I'm sure it had a little to do with the herb, but I actually started giggling while I was looking at the models, the maps, etc and realizing I was about to play TF2 for the first time.

You know - has everyone who played just clicked through so fast that they didn't watch the "films" of the map?

I just prefer a game that gets the blood flowing a bit more and doesnt kill the action with a 20 second respawn timer.

Undocumented Alien, all valve games use hl2.exe, and they all run from a different folder, which is probably why your firewalls want to re-auth them seperately.