It was fairly cool final week when Valve, builders of the traditional Group Fortress 2, stated that the sport was getting “a full-on update-sized replace”. It’s much less cool per week later to seek out that the corporate has edited that announcement put up in an try and pump everybody’s brakes.
You may’t blame people for getting excited! As uncared for as the sport has turn out to be over time, it’s nonetheless an enormous deal for lots of followers, and the information {that a} 16-year-old sport was going to be getting an enormous replace so lengthy after its final was welcomed accordingly.
Sadly, it’s now time to decrease each your pleasure ranges and expectations, as a result of as noticed by billcage32 the weblog put up written as much as inform everybody in regards to the replace has now modified some key phrases to make it sound so much much less main than it did at first.
Right here’s the important thing passage because it first appeared final week:
The previous couple of Group Fortress summer time occasions have solely been merchandise updates. However this yr, we’re planning on delivery a full-on update-sized replace — with objects, maps, taunts, uncommon results, warfare paints and who is aware of what else?! Which implies we’d like Steam Workshop content material! YOUR Steam Workshop content material!
And right here’s the way it seems as we speak:
The previous couple of Group Fortress summer time occasions have solely been merchandise updates. However this yr, we’re planning on delivery a full-on holiday-sized replace — with objects, maps, taunts, uncommon results, warfare paints, and different community-contributed fixes for the sport! Which implies we’d like Steam Workshop content material! YOUR Steam Workshop content material!
What’s modified is that the time period “full-on update-sized replace” has been edited to “full-on holiday-sized replace”, and the very excited, teasing “and who is aware of what else?!” has been deleted completely. Which means Valve probably noticed the response to the preliminary weblog put up, realised immediately “holy shit these followers expect an replace so much greater than the one we’re really going to be delivery” and have tried to dial again expectations by softening the language accordingly.