[glouch]

Valve != Blizzard/EA/Activision and slippery slope is a bad argument to use in any case.

This update reeks of blizzard. If you had told me one year ago that valve was going to have a store in tf2 that used real money to buy unlocks, I would have said that valve isn't that kind of a company. Yet here they are doing it. If this shit is successful, what's to stop them from implementing it in future games?

Even if I'm not directly forced to buy anything, there's now constant reminders about purchasing items. Hell, there's fucking advertising on the main menu for items in the store. Yeah, no one is making me, but payed items pervade every aspect of the game, to the point where the game is secondary to the items (at least it seems this way to me). Where before people would say "nice shot" after dieing, now they're seeing the freezecam and saying "nice hat."

tl;dr: I DON'T LIKE IT WAAAH.