Team Fortress 2 - Free Halo Hats. (Cheater's Lament)

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From the official TF2 website:

Erik Johnson

Over the next few days we'll be removing all TF2 items that were earned using external idling applications. We're going to adopt a zero tolerance policy for external applications used to manipulate the persistent item system. Due to us not having a policy in place prior to today, this time we're only removing the items earned through cheating the system. Going forward, if we find users using external applications, we'll remove all of their items. If you're interested, only about 4.5% of the players in TF2's community will be affected by this cleansing process.

Meanwhile, everyone who took the moral high road will soon be finding a new hat in their inventory. We've also significantly increased the chance of finding any of the existing hats.

We realize there is a high level of demand for items, and we're still working on systems to allow you to find them in new ways (via Trading, and crafting duplicates into desired items). However, we need to draw the line at running external applications.

I got a halo in TF2 now. Yay! biggrin  

[Garynook]

Don't forget to not wear it as a spy as it stays visible when you are camouflaged.  

[Executive Anubis]

Eww a thread was made about this and I never saw it? Yeah I was one of the main people who inspired the "Dirty Idlers" group on Steam. I wore that tag for about 4 months after September 2nd, AKA the Idlercaust. Refused to heal people wearing Halos, killed them all the time, etc. Good times. The whole "Idler vs. Halos" was the funnest s**t ever. All of this was protesting in Valve's decision.

Ahh... those were the days!

Yeah, needless to say, I idled. I wasn't offended by losing pretty much nothing (I lost a Football helmet, which, at that time, was my least-favorite hat), I was honesty much more offended by Valve making idlers out as "cheaters" even though the terms and conditions never said anything against any 3rd-party programs. neutral