When TF2 Gets Serious - 'Where's Ma Halo *****?'

If you managed to play some Team Fortress 2 today you may have heard about "Halo-gate".  No this isn't a reference to that crappy console game that the kiddies go gaga over its about this little halo on the right.  Yes, the good boys and girls of TF2 landed themselves a nice halo as a hat add-on.

Notice I said "good boys and girls".  Those of you who thought it wise to use that nasty little "idle program" out there to try and earn yourself some hats and various other accessories just had their hands slapped by Valve with little warning.  I myself never used it.  I spent some time idle in in-game servers well before the weapon-drops were added but never the third party client.  So now I have a nice little halo as you can above which ironically is my very first hat.

People who choose to use the idle program have had all their "illegally obtained" items (and I use that term loosely) taken from them as a form of just desserts.  Plus they miss out on the halo-hat which was giving to 95% of the TF2 populace.  This has angered the masses and they are out in force on the TF2 official forums *****ing and moaning over a hat that has zero substance within the game as if they were unfairly treated.

Were they?  I don't think they were to be honest.  In the "spirit of the game" clearly idling to give an advantage in random rare drops, while not down on paper as illegal, certainly seems against the whole concept from the get go.  If its supposed to be random doesn't idling go against the point of it?  If anything these people should be pissed at themselves as it was their own actions that brought this on.  The really amusing thing is that a lot of these gamers who idled never even got a hat but lost all sorts of other accessories.

Valve never explicitly came out and said this idling was illegal or against the TOS and this forms the basis of many complaints in regards to this whole issue.  The weapons are easy enough to get however and this punishment really adds up to a whole lot of nothing if you lost some of your items.

I will give the protesters some credit though, they are going about it in some creative ways.  First up is the "Healers Against Halos!" Steam group who are a bunch of healers who are refusing to heal players with halos.  With under 700 members there is a good chance you will never run in to them but be warned.  That is how you protest people, screw e-petitions.

And if you are really feeling slighted you can always bust out this custom skin to remind yourself how "f--- you Valve" you really are...






Cheaters never win?