Valve Launches Team Fortress 2 Open Beta, Yes Really

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You might have been under the impression Team Fortress 2 was this online shooter you bought and played to death for the past three or so years and you were maybe surprised at how supportive Valve are still being of it, but figure it must be, if not on its last legs, then at the very least looking at retirement home booklets, right? You probably weren’t expecting it to be going to the prom. Yes, Valve is about to have an open beta for a three-year old game. And for Valve, this is almost normal.

You see, their play is to separate this Team Fortress 2 beta from the main TF2 branch and use it as a sort of testing ground for outlandish, game-breaking ideas, or as they’re known at Valve, ideas. And while a new Halloween boss and a new store are ideas that probably won’t ruin gameplay, Valve says their ideas do: “As you’ve probably seen by now, we like to change things in Team Fortress 2,” Valve said. “A lot. And while we’re perfect most of the time, we occasionally get something wrong. One reason for this is we just don’t get enough data from internal play testing, and another is that we spend too much time watching Tom Bui serenades on YouTube.”