WHAT THE LAJKSFD;LK     

well, i guess after waiting 11 years I can wait a few hours more... *sigh*

lol

Damnit Valve!
*Shakes fist in the air*

:(

Once again US think eart is flat and everybody lives there. It is tuesday aldready in some parts of globe and you are not even waked up yet. When you release this at 'monday evening' 80% planet population is livin tuesday.

hmm....USA WORLD DOMINATION TOUR 2007 .... goes on! Earth is a flat ... yeah !

OMG hurry um get me off this battlefield everyone uses the 36e and calls me a nub aimbot haxxor

Nice one, give me enough time to get home.  Its 1pm here in Uk at the moment, get home around 6pm, just in time....that is if I can log into Steam, tried this morning and got an error, which is odd as it worked last night.  Could be the number of users I suppose.

Wonder how many copies they sold of orange box. Didnt steam workers parents teach them how important it is to be in time? Specially when you sucha a big company as steam it self its really important to even specify a Time.

Lol, wonder how they plan their "buisness meetings"

 Im just in for TF2 Beta really.. SO DO RELEASE IT NOW IVE PAID FOR IT! Is it fun to pay for the buss when it does not arrive as scheduled?

Figures I find that out after waking up early in hopes of playing it before school :(

i stayed up late yesterday and woke up early today :P

Sorry ChrisFromSweden but that is total bullshit what you are writing there...on the steam website it only says start playing on 17.sep. not in the morning or one minute before midnight or in which timezone.

You paid for the orange box and even got 5$ bucks off because you preordered...you can play the beta with that but you HAVENT paid for the beta. Yea if the shedule for the buss says arrives on sep. 17th then you may have to wait from 0:00 -> 23:59....

Jesus FFS. you've waited 11 fucking years, you can wait a few more hours. go take your girlfriend/mom/dog out to dinner come back and "oh my look at that merridith, TF2 has been unlocked by those nice fellas over at valve. i just cant wait to try it out". go nuts.

Im guessing it will be released within the hour. Just a guess but 2pm seems about right in america. It's gona be full of bugs anyway tbh though =p.

Well not to much longer to wait, prepare your self, drink coffee etc etc, cause we're about to play an awesome game guys =)

OKEY KURZ FROM RUSSIA!

Ok, is the "Beta" going to be available in the "My Games" list? i have pre-downloaded TF 2..
Still waiting though.. And its allready evening.. :/

Hey guys.  Valve is located on the west coast of The United States.  That is what you should base the time on.  No one gives a fuck if it's "evening" in your shitty part of the world.  mmmmmmmk?

hahha merridith... lol...

While I wait, I guess I'll just go beat Peggle Extreme... Again...

So what time is it over in America now and what time do you expect the game to come out? Around 6PM maybe?

It's 18:45 here in England.

They should make it clear that they mean Pacific time when they advertise it as September 17th.
They have localisation, they should've made it 18th in Europe, Asia and Australia if they knew it was late in the day.
But, I've waited long enough, a few more hours won't hurt... but its still a bad show.

1:53 PM EST, betting for an after 8pm launch. Either way, 2 mins. from now or 6 hours I'm taking tomorrow off!

1:53 PM EST, betting for an after 8pm launch. Either way, 2 mins. from now or 6 hours I'm taking tomorrow off!

1:53 PM EST, betting for an after 8pm launch. Either way, 2 mins. from now or 6 hours I'm taking tomorrow off!

I guess they are waiting till about 6PM PST (-8:00 GMT). This is so that when the game is released, it is not overcrowded by a bunch of 11 year olds running around acting like idiots, ruining the game. Instead this way more mature players will be in game from the start, giving the game a better impression of teamwork. That's my guess.

Or.

Once again undereducated game developers think the Earth is flat and everybody lives in the US. It is Tuesday already in some parts of globe and the devs in the US are not even awake yet. When you say that it will be released at "Monday evening" 80% planet population is living in Tuesday. You should always inflate beta/demo release dated by +24 hours.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time

When I bought the orangebox I bought it on the premise that I'd be able to play TF2 beta on the 17th Sept.  Indeed it's still the 17th in the UK, however it's 19:35 now and that leaves just 4 hours 25 mins. 

Valve have done their PR no good with this sort of attitude.  I shall think twice before purchasing another valve game.  If they say the 17th then open it up on the 17th, not late on the 17th but at the crack of dawn.  I took the day off work just so I could play the beta.  Next time say you're releasing on the 17th at a specific time like 2pm PST.  Uncertainty breeds negitivity.

Well, taking off work to play a game in beta never worked out for anyone anyways... And they didn't tell you crack of dawn on the 17th.  When has a steam release been before 4pm central?  Hasn't.  Love the whining though, keep it up.

Geez you Euros and ethnocentric.

Bottom line here is that Steam/Valve is based in Seattle in the Pacific Time zone. Its completely reasonable to say late Monday release if its released late Monday in the time zone they live in. Are they giving you shit for having New Years a day early?

As many others have said, you waited 10+ years, whats another few hours?

As much as i wanted to play the game now, i'm not complaining about the release time, although it would have been nice to have it earlier. I'll probably be asleep when it's released, but what's a few hours anyway

Geez you Euros and ethnocentric.

Bottom line here is that Steam/Valve is based in Seattle in the Pacific Time zone. Its completely reasonable to say late Monday release if its released late Monday in the time zone they live in. Are they giving you shit for having New Years a day early?

As many others have said, you waited 10+ years, whats another few hours?

Get over yourselves goddamn Euros, They said sept 17th and that means sept 17th PACIFIC STANDARD TIME! The time it is at Valve headquarters, it is now 1211 hours Pacific standard time, aka just past noon, so at Valve they still have a good 11 hours to release, so people in the UK... get that sick outta your butt and realize THERE RELEASING ON THERE TIME NOT YOURS....

Quite obviously you didn't read what I said about the crack of dawn.  I said they should release it at the crack of dawn.  I never said they told us they would,  quite a clear difference.

It makes no difference if previous releases were before or after 4pm.  The fact remains, they said the 17th.  I wouldn't have had a problem had they said 2pm PST on the 17th, I'd have known where I stood and accepted it. 

And as for the valve time link to the wiki page, whilst I find it ammusing I also find it rather sad that any company would have that sort of attitude.

Walter Cronkite wrote: "Are they giving you shit for having New Years a day early?"

They don't pay to have a new years day brought to them.  Howerver, I paid to have TF2 brought to me on the 17th at a reasonable time.

Get over it! Wrote: "it is now 1211 hours Pacific standard time, aka just past noon"

Get over it! Wrote: "get that sick outta your butt and realize THERE RELEASING ON THERE TIME NOT YOURS"

Point 1:  Judging by your reply and vulgar use of words I'd say you're not exactly top notch material.  Firstly,  I think a clock lesson is needed.  12:11 is 11 minutes after midnight, it can also mean 11 minutes after 12pm on the kiddy clock though so perhaps this is the level we're dealing with here.  To advance our class to the next level, If the big hand's pointing to the 12 and the small hand to the 1 and it's the afternoon then that 13:00 and not 1:00am in the adult world.

Point 2: You spelt relize wrong, whilst I'm by no way's perfect as can be seen by my typo in a previous post, I do know how to spell 'Relise'.

Point 3: It's 'their' not 'there'.  Quite obviously not a typo as you made the same embarrassing mistake again 3 words later.

So... Is the Beta just gonna pop up in your game menu or do u haveto activate it in some way... Valve havnt said anything about that or?

pew pew!!!!

pew pew!!!!

And btw, all americans... England is GMT +-0... The so called world clock is england ^^

What we europeans are trying to say is why not make it official? The release time? Write for god sake GMT -8 or w/e it is...

and also, when most games are released.. they do it 00.00 (12.00am) so if valve would be nice to do the traditional way, all on earth would have got it by now...But NOO, lets w8 untill late american night instead of pressing the god damn release button when a Valve'er got to work this morning we should w8 untill late night US, and to early europeans.. Valve cares about their fans so much!

Actually no, I have become vulgar because I am getting sick and goddamn tired of all you Euros bitching and complaining because the game is not out on your time when the company is based in western America, All the TF2 sites I go too are flooded with "wah wah, its almost Tuesday over here, why cant the American based company cater to us instead of their main customer base", and just so you know it is now 12:51pm now at valve, so have fun waiting.

And btw, all americans... England is GMT +-0... The so called world clock is england ^^

What we europeans are trying to say is why not make it official? The release time? Write for god sake GMT -8 or w/e it is...

and also, when most games are released.. they do it 00.00 (12.00am) so if valve would be nice to do the traditional way, all on earth would have got it by now...But NOO, lets w8 untill late american night instead of pressing the god damn release button when a Valve'er got to work this morning we should w8 untill late night US, and to early europeans.. Valve cares about their fans so much!

Snoop0, this is a beta release, most betas, weather it be a online MMO or otherwise almost never start at 00.00.

IF you MAKE it OFFICAL 17/9 September, WITH no other information, it SHOULD be out 17/9 WORLDWIDE.

Still, i can w8, but it would be better if i knew when.. so I can do OTHER things than just sitting and w8ing for it to come anytime now... when its not..

Well nothing is stopping you from going outside, playing other games, etc, the game will be there tommorow, and the day after, and the one after that, etc ^_^;;

It does clearly state when you buy the orange box or tf2 that the release date is liable to change and no purchases should be made withou being aware of that fact.  So if you are sittin there closin and restartin steam then just chill, they have no legal obliation to release it today - it would be nice but I'd rather get teh game when teh servers work and it doesnt crash instantly than right now tbh.

- Me two pence, saying all that I miht just refresh a couple of times ;)

yeye..
Forget it then..

still want to know if there is something you haveto do to get it? or will it pop up in you gamelist..
That, is something they could make official soon ^^, be4 the release

It is their right to "wah wah",  they have been sold a product that was supposed to be released on the 17th.  This has nothing to do with where the company is based and everything to do with the purchase of a product based on their shop info which stated...  "plus, start playing Team Fortress 2 Beta on Monday, Sept 17th and Peggle Extreme now"

Somedude,

If you are going to become pedantic, please make sure your information is accurate.  11 minutes after midnight is 0011 not 1211.  1211 is actually the right way to say 11 minutes after noon.  One way to understand this is that there are 24 hours in the day so military time starts with 00 and ends at 23, with 23 meaning the 23rd hour of the day etc.  I hope that helps.

This is the funniest thing I've read in the world.   I sprang for the OB, in main because I'd get to play TF2 a bit early.   I'm in the UK, so starting Steam this morning was done with a bit of a chuckle.  Damn near gave me a coronary when the Halo 3 beta started in the morning over here - why anyone would expect a US-based company to synchronise anywhere else is beyond me - sounds like a hearty bit of yank-bashing for the sake of it, really.   If launching during one's home-timezone daytime is arrogant, how d'you think insisting on your *own* timezone - when all sane folk are snoring happily in their beds there - sounds?

Besides.   It's Valve.   It's Team Fortress 2 for goodness' sake.  You were expecting it to be *on time*?   Are you drunk, or something?   Gabe Newell's watch only has four hour-ticks on it's face for th'love of gawd!  I think he wrote the "Time Remaining" gadget in Windows, for that matter....  acting surprised about it is just unrealistic.

yeye..
Forget it then..

still want to know if there is something you haveto do to get it? or will it pop up in you gamelist..
That, is something they could make official soon ^^, be4 the release

Somedude,

If you are going to become pedantic, please make sure your information is accurate.  11 minutes after midnight is 0011 not 1211.  1211 is actually the right way to say 11 minutes after noon.  One way to understand this is that there are 24 hours in the day so military time starts with 00 and ends at 23, with 23 meaning the 23rd hour of the day etc.  I hope that helps.

I think if you pre-loaded it and whatnot upon release it should just drop its (unreleased) tag Snoop0, I think, don't go quoting me on that XD

WTF man?!!? Its fuckin 3:19 PM... I skipped my work after school just to come home and LAN this with my friends and its not even fucking released? What the hell thats so bull.... *goes and plays Fortress Forever cause Valve sux*

I was a bit disappointed when I logged on to Steam this morning.  (I'm in the same city as Valve Software).  But I wouldn't have had much time to enjoy it anyway.  If its not released when I get home from work, I might have to drive down there and ask them what the hold up is...

I was a bit disappointed when I logged on to Steam this morning.  (I'm in the same city as Valve Software).  But I wouldn't have had much time to enjoy it anyway.  If its not released when I get home from work, I might have to drive down there and ask them what the hold up is...

yeye..
Forget it then..

still want to know if there is something you haveto do to get it? or will it pop up in you gamelist..
That, is something they could make official soon ^^, be4 the release

Snoop0

Its in my games list.  When I bought the Orange Box it was added to my games and I just had to right click it and select preload.  It started downloading right away.

yeye..
Forget it then..

still want to know if there is something you haveto do to get it? or will it pop up in you gamelist..
That, is something they could make official soon ^^, be4 the release

Snoop0, quit posting the same thing over and over, if your refreshing the page just after posting go back to the main site and reload it, please...

Snoop0, it's probably going to be in your settings where you have to activate it under beta stuff

Well, at least I can be home from work when it's released!

...but I was hoping to have some reviews to read during my lunch break!

Personally, I think the 11 year wait is a reason to be pissed about having to wait even longer than they said, not a reason to shrug and bend over quietly.

Well, at least I can be home from work when it's released!

...but I was hoping to have some reviews to read during my lunch break!

Personally, I think the 11 year wait is a reason to be pissed about having to wait even longer than they said, not a reason to shrug and bend over quietly.

    I just received an email from Valve. TF2 is going to be released between 4pm and 7pm (not sure which timezone it is under). I personally was not emailed I was told by my manager and the email is being forwarded to me (I work for www.hardknocksorlando.com)

    I just received an email from Valve. TF2 is going to be released between 4pm and 7pm (not sure which timezone it is under). I personally was not emailed I was told by my manager and the email is being forwarded to me (I work for www.hardknocksorlando.com)

lol...you all just need to relax...

you have no control on when its released..

when it comes out...it comes out

yeye..
Forget it then..

still want to know if there is something you haveto do to get it? or will it pop up in you gamelist..
That, is something they could make official soon ^^, be4 the release

"Personally, I think the 11 year wait is a reason to be pissed about having to wait even longer than they said, not a reason to shrug and bend over quietly."

Valve is based in Bellevue, Washington, and thus falls under Pacific Standard Time. As of writing this message, it is 2:23pm PST, September 17, 2007. According to the Valve press release on the Orange Box preorder, all that was stated was that the Team Fortress 2 beta would be released to the public on September 17 (and you have to assume they mean it falls under PST and not any other time zone because that is where Valve is situated geographically). So, you have no reason to pissed. At all. They're not making you wait any longer than they said, because they said September 17 and guess what? It's still September 17.

If you want to be disappointed about anything, it's the fact that they didn't enumerate it further in the official press release, and instead we have to find out it's "late in the day" via articles like this one. But that's still no excuse to get pissed at Valve for being "late", because they aren't.

Basically many people are not going to get in to the beta on 17th as promised by PRE-PAYING for the orange box as they are not in a time zone that allows this.
Valve did not advertise 17th Sept* (* in Valves Time Zone, time variations means some areas may not receive the beta product of tf2 until the 18th ).

Lets face it, somethings gone wrong, and we know it, they would be safer saying sorry and spec'ing a day or two later for beta access if they actually need to, rather than go though this b/s.

You got a discount of 5 bucks for pre-paying. Quit being a bitch about it and just have patience. The world doesn't revolve around you.

Well pissed off it's not been earlier (UK) , I hate the waiting game,

You got a discount of 5 bucks for pre-paying. Quit being a bitch about it and just have patience. The world doesn't revolve around you.

Hi all. I hate for my first post to be rather negative but I gotta say the posts going on here show a very, very sad side of the worlds young people now. Reminds me of spoiled children. C'mon kiddies, lighten up. I'm super stoked about this release too and want nothing more than to play it now, but we just have to wait.
Go outside and do something productive. Soon we will all be playing it without a thought of it being too late.
Have a good day!

People need to stop bitching and just go outside and kill some time. People at valve are probably working their asses off right now getting the beta out, and they don't need a bunch kids whining and complaining.

HolmWrecker, I'm with you brother!

You lot just don't get it do you?  All this talk of go outside and do other stuff, valve working ass off etc.  Valve have had more than enough time to get things to Beta standard.  Don't tell me to go outside and do something productive, I put my money down on the table for a 17th release.  The carrot of a beta play was enough for me to make the final decision of buying the orange box but alas I was mislead, shame on you Valve.  Of course the US will get it on the 17th, but for those in the UK it's now 23:10 and it's still not open. Disgusting and mislead.

This whole time thing is ridiculous. We had to wait back in the 80's for a release of a Japanese game for months, possibly years, so things are getting a bit better, but when a Valve, who releases all of it's products online, says the 17th, it should be GMT, not EST, PST or anything else. I don't care if your business is on the north pole, basing a release date on location in this century is idiotic. We are all linked up, adjust to it. Btw I live on the east coast, US

Honestly, at this point I almost hope it doesn't come out tomorrow just so all of the whiners get shafted.  That, and I have to leave for work now.  8^D

to Somedude, the world revolves around the US, not the UK :D

:waiting:

Why should a business not work based on location in this century? Aren't we still susceptible to the rising and setting of the sun in our respective locations? I don't fly over to somewhere in Europe and arrive 11pm local time and demand that they open their post offices because it's 5pm on the east coast of the US.

Until we're all living under a dome with artificial light and no longer use time zones then locational operation of businesses is entirely reasonable.

Why should a business not work based on location in this century? Aren't we still susceptible to the rising and setting of the sun in our respective locations? I don't fly over to somewhere in Europe and arrive 11pm local time and demand that they open their post offices because it's 5pm on the east coast of the US.

Until we're all living under a dome with artificial light and no longer use time zones then locational operation of businesses is entirely reasonable.

When your clients are based in Japan you adjust to their schedule to keep their business, if you have clients world wide expecting an online release, people who have already paid money, many, probably, paying for a package of products they aren't interested in or already own, just to gain access to a bonus, they should expect the bonus to be there, regardless of local time. If this were anything other than a game you'd lose clients. A little professionalism in the industry would be nice, I'm not asking for ties, just taking care of your client base.

Why should a business not work based on location in this century? Aren't we still susceptible to the rising and setting of the sun in our respective locations? I don't fly over to somewhere in Europe and arrive 11pm local time and demand that they open their post offices because it's 5pm on the east coast of the US.

Until we're all living under a dome with artificial light and no longer use time zones then locational operation of businesses is entirely reasonable.

LOL! I can't believe people stayed up all night practically. I admit I woke up this morning and started up steam just to see if it loaded before I went to work. Bottom line is I'm sure you'll all be gibbing before you know it and I'm sure at launching the game over steam is more than just flicking a switch.

BUT! Valve should have given a general 3 -4 hour span on when it would become ready, because Monday 17th means 12:01 am whatever time zone Valve is in.

Why should a business not work based on location in this century? Aren't we still susceptible to the rising and setting of the sun in our respective locations? I don't fly over to somewhere in Europe and arrive 11pm local time and demand that they open their post offices because it's 5pm on the east coast of the US.

Until we're all living under a dome with artificial light and no longer use time zones then locational operation of businesses is entirely reasonable.

Why should a business not work based on location in this century? Aren't we still susceptible to the rising and setting of the sun in our respective locations? I don't fly over to somewhere in Europe and arrive 11pm local time and demand that they open their post offices because it's 5pm on the east coast of the US.

Until we're all living under a dome with artificial light and no longer use time zones then locational operation of businesses is entirely reasonable.

Lionel-Richie 

Refreshing the page duplicates your post.  Go to the home page and enter the blog post again and then you can refresh anytime.

To Sprinkles, actually the world revolves around GMT, London happens to be GMT which is also in the UK.  The Americans just think the world revolves around them, they also think they have a Democracy.

Man, SteamPowered forums are getting slammed right now. I can't even access any threads.

On a side not, I can't wait to own you guys with the Heavy... =)
"CRY SOME MORE!"

Haha...wow. Sorry about that >< Guess I can't delete them either.

WOW seems to be a bit of a bash on us euro's here. People are  just a little over  eager i think.
Well i'm one of those damn euro's but i'm just waitin here patiently. And i ain't gonna be sleepin till i played some TF2.
Don't really care what time that is. Its already 0035 here. Oh well it won't be long till i play the game i been waiti along time for now :-)
Not all euro's are moaners ya know

WOW seems to be a bit of a bash on us euro's here. People are  just a little over  eager i think.
Well i'm one of those damn euro's but i'm just waitin here patiently. And i ain't gonna be sleepin till i played some TF2.
Don't really care what time that is. Its already 0035 here. Oh well it won't be long till i play the game i been waiti along time for now :-)
Not all euro's are moaners ya know

WOW seems to be a bit of a bash on us euro's here. People are  just a little over  eager i think.
Well i'm one of those damn euro's but i'm just waitin here patiently. And i ain't gonna be sleepin till i played some TF2.
Don't really care what time that is. Its already 0035 here. Oh well it won't be long till i play the game i been waiti along time for now :-)
Not all euro's are moaners ya know

Omg...Its already 7:40 here and still not unlocked...

Omg...Its already 7:40 here and still not unlocked...

Peggle Extreme high score in Adventure mode anyone?

Just play Fortress Forever for a few hours, its basically TFC on Source....should tide you over until TF2 is out!

Omg I checked for updates and a steam client update showed up but apparently that wasn't TF2...I think its close now though.

OMFG! Im in Mountain time, and i waited so long for this, and i went to school and it still wasn't unlocked... GOD!

6,024,1055 for Peggle in adventure Somedude ^^

Zombies FTW ...  *sigh :(

Do i need to buy the orange box or pre-order it to play the beta???

I feel sorry for all the non-US players out there who are already on Tuesday without a game. I have to side with you folks, what VALVe did is just bad business IMO. While they aren't doing this just to screw with us, I think they made a big mistake in their ad campaign. They are victims of their own marketing. They advertised this as the deal of the century, and are without a doubt completely aware of the significance TF2 has to all of us who have waited so many years. To announce it's coming September 17th without a set time is a mistake on their part, and a mistake on ours for not reading between the lines when we first saw it. What they should have done is given a specific time of day in PST, and come clean with an apology if they had gone a minute over that. Sure they have been late in other releases, but how is that a legitimate excuse? They have taken my money, and I currently have nothing, plain and simple bad business practice.

I feel sorry for all the non-US players out there who are already on Tuesday without a game. I have to side with you folks, what VALVe did is just bad business IMO. While they aren't doing this just to screw with us, I think they made a big mistake in their ad campaign. They are victims of their own marketing. They advertised this as the deal of the century, and are without a doubt completely aware of the significance TF2 has to all of us who have waited so many years. To announce it's coming September 17th without a set time is a mistake on their part, and a mistake on ours for not reading between the lines when we first saw it. What they should have done is given a specific time of day in PST, and come clean with an apology if they had gone a minute over that. Sure they have been late in other releases, but how is that a legitimate excuse? They have taken my money, and I currently have nothing, plain and simple bad business practice.

Its 1.41 in London, im going to have to admin defeat and see if its out tomorrow then...:(

Its 1.41 in London, im going to have to admin defeat and see if its out tomorrow then...:(

Zombies FTW ...  *sigh :(

Zombies FTW ...  *sigh :(

I feel everyones pain, in and out the US. hope they hurry this up....

Well to you Eurpean players... time is nearly up. Happy Tuesday!
For you East coasters it looks like it might be Happy Tuesday to you too (Mabey).

For you West coast bastards, you MIGHT see it by midnight.

For those who skipped school and work ..... well you deserved that.

And for all of us lesson learned, Valve never keeps their release date promises.

errr its 9:02pm est and still nothing ><

Well to you Eurpean players... time is nearly up. Happy Tuesday!
For you East coasters it looks like it might be Happy Tuesday to you too (Mabey).

For you West coast bastards, you MIGHT see it by midnight.

For those who skipped school and work ..... well you deserved that.

And for all of us lesson learned, Valve never keeps their release date promises.

errr its 9:02pm est and still nothing ><

So now its almost 9pm EST .. this is almost becoming some sort of sick joke. If they release @ 11:55 pm EST I am going to be slightly annoyed. I agree with who ever posted about feeling sorry for non-us players. I have first hand experience with releasing a game so I know that there a quarks that come along with any beta , but the last thing you want to do is piss off your audience. I mean in reality tomorrow after everyone has the game  no one will even remember that it came out so late. But its not unlike valve to pull this kinda deal so I guess I am not surprised.

Wasn't TF2 supposed to be released before the millennium?  Ha - PSYCHE!  I can tell you one thing, on valve's calendar, September 17th is April Fools Day!

Hahaha Fraud :D

errr its 9:02pm est and still nothing ><

As another poster stated way above "As many others have said, you waited 10+ years, whats another few hours?"

Whats a few hours? How about the fact we fucking payed for it. Cold hard fucking cash.

Valve FTL

RELEASE IT NOW DAMNIT

    By that of course i mean, I'm dying out here -- can't wait to play :)

Whats the stance with you guys. How many of you pre-ordered the Orange Box specificly for the beta release today (well apparently today), and how many of you guys would have pre-ordered it by now anyway, reguardless of beta release?

I for one did it specificly for the beta release

same, just for the beta, i would of gotten it later if it wasnt for it

Beta I'm eager to get some Pyro action going!! BURN BURN!

Beta I'm eager to get some Pyro action going!! BURN BURN!

the waiting sux, but hey its a big release and they want to get it right, so give em a break.

Beta I'm eager to get some Pyro action going!! BURN BURN!

Mabey we should take this time to channel our energy and discuss how to solve the worlds problems, like disease, poverty and hunger.
Because god knows by the time this fucking beta comes out we would have figured it all out.

So is everyone enjoying their $45 copy of Peggle Extreme?

:D

haha I pre-ordered so I could play this but I am not at all surprised.  Valve just keeps us foaming at the mouth and then gives us a bone and we will take it and we WILL like it.  That is what Valve does whether that is fair or makes us happy, sad, or whatever the fuck you feel.  It will come out and we will love it and all of this will go away.  I just keep pushing good thoughts towards the Valve offices saying "Release it...I am bored"  =P

beta, need to get my fix

" So is everyone enjoying their $45 copy of Peggle Extreme? "

That's actually a good game. Friking addictive.

A few minutes ago there was an update on STEAM.  I am too quick for my own good and already got rid of the pop-up telling me what it was about, but I'm almost positive I saw Team Fortress 2 littered in the writing.  Anyone know what that's all about?

beta, need to get my fix

A few minutes ago there was an update on STEAM.  I am too quick for my own good and already got rid of the pop-up telling me what it was about, but I'm almost positive I saw Team Fortress 2 littered in the writing.  Anyone know what that's all about?

A few minutes ago there was an update on STEAM.  I am too quick for my own good and already got rid of the pop-up telling me what it was about, but I'm almost positive I saw Team Fortress 2 littered in the writing.  Anyone know what that's all about?

PS - if you refresh the page after posting a comment apparently you'll get double - triple posts.  My apologies. 

That update on steam was NOT tf2, it was a client update which took care of some bugs. The one think that really makes me mad are the steam forums. I dont know if you guys can go on there, but I cant, its too populated.

"A few minutes ago there was an update on STEAM.  I am too quick for my own good and already got rid of the pop-up telling me what it was about, but I'm almost positive I saw Team Fortress 2 littered in the writing.  Anyone know what that's all about?"

this is the last update I got:

Steam Client

• Fixed in-game overlay causing a crash for users running Windows XP without Service Pack 2 installed
  
• Fixed mouse clicks in-game sometimes not registering in the correct position for the in-game overlay
  
• Reduced CPU useage when using chat and group chat
  
• Reduced CPU useage while idle on the Store and Community tabs
  
• Fixed Steam windows showing up in the task-bar but impossible to restore

I got the STEAM update to, nothing related to TF2 thou :(

beta, need to get my fix

It was just an update to the steam client.  Team fortress wasn't one of them.     

No, I got the update too, and read what it included -- nothing concerning TF2, unfortunately.

No, I got the update too, and read what it included -- nothing concerning TF2, unfortunately.

Do you honestly thing "late in the day" is going to be like 11 pm PST making it 2 am for EST?  I mean, would you THINK "late in the day" would mean the business day?  I wouldn't be so ticked if I didn't pay the pre-order JUST for TF2.  I could care less about HL2-EP2.

think***

No, I got the update too, and read what it included -- nothing concerning TF2, unfortunately.

How long is the beta going to run did valve say anything about that?

I believe it runs until the offical release of the game. So once beta is unlocked, beta should just run into the release

I live in Pacific Time and its not sun down yet.  I hope they hurry before vampire monkeys come out.

OMFG THIS IS ANNOYING

I WANT TF2 NOW

The next question is - once they open it and we all rush it - will the servers support us?  Or will it just crash all night :P

OH FUN TIMES

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.  Come on now.  This is ridiculous.

Oh I'm getting something!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Looks Good. Something is happening!!


False alarm, I just farted.

Will Valve have servers or are others supposed to provide them.  Isn't the client release going to come after they release the server files?  What we should be waiting for is the servers to get loaded, not the clients.  I'm actually waiting for 10000 beta testers to trying and play when there are like 5 servers  :)

Will Valve have servers or are others supposed to provide them.  Isn't the client release going to come after they release the server files?  What we should be waiting for is the servers to get loaded, not the clients.  I'm actually waiting for 10000 beta testers to trying and play when there are like 5 servers  :)

If thinks keep up this way, there will be NO one on the servers.  Everyone will be in bed dreaming of burning down Valve HQ.

Will Valve have servers or are others supposed to provide them.  Isn't the client release going to come after they release the server files?  What we should be waiting for is the servers to get loaded, not the clients.  I'm actually waiting for 10000 beta testers to trying and play when there are like 5 servers  :)

things***   geezus!

Who is up for some counter strike source?

lol raged newfags.

I just read a post on Steam saying TF2 has been delayed 3 days

I just read a post on Steam saying TF2 has been delayed 3 days

10,000 beta testers? I sure hope there weren't 10,000 suckers who bought games they most likely already had just to play a promised beta that still hasn't showed up.

I'm one of those suckers and I feel pretty stupid about it.

Disregard that, I suck cocks.

So, yeah.  22:00 EST and still waiting.  Pretty peeved at this point.  Thanks for letting us down, Valve.  After 11 years, and saying it's finally going to happen, we get this.

ZOMG shut your hole you disrespectful idiot.

ZOMG shut your hole you disrespectful idiot.

If there's one thing we know to expect from Valve, it's delays.  There's no use getting worked up over it since we should have known it was going to happen.

Its prolly going to be released 11:59 pm PST with a handful of servers. If we ever get that far lol. I remember this exact thing happening with half-life 2 release through steam. Even with the game preloaded, that small file required to download in order to activate it caused my steam to crash like 3 times before it finally downloaded.

The part about it being delayed 3 days is untrue I take it?

well iam out of time it seems. waited the past 24 hours for either hellgate or TF2 to pop up but o well, next time i can play will be in 17 hours so i hope by then one of the 2 will be up.

Its prolly going to be released 11:59 pm PST with a handful of servers. If we ever get that far lol. I remember this exact thing happening with half-life 2 release through steam. Even with the game preloaded, that small file required to download in order to activate it caused my steam to crash like 3 times before it finally downloaded.

10,000 beta testers? I sure hope there weren't 10,000 suckers who bought games they most likely already had just to play a promised beta that still hasn't showed up.

I'm one of those suckers and I feel pretty stupid about it.

i like men

So do I.

it's been delayed until 9/18

I found the preloaded files, in the Program files\Steam\steamapps. Just so we can stare at them completely powerless. We are at the mercy of valve.

team fortress 2 content.gcf - 1389220 kb
team fortress 2 materials.gcf - 1146446 kb