260 hours or $7.99?
by benpack
So I play TF2. I have been playing it a lot, actually. I recently checked and I've played 260 hours of it over the years. If you don't know, there is a feature in TF2 called crafting, where you can get randomly generated weapons or other items and combine them to make other items that you want. Along with weapons, you can craft hats, but they are much harder to make. They require 81 different i...
So I play TF2. I have been playing it a lot, actually. I recently checked and I've played 260 hours of it over the years. If you don't know, there is a feature in TF2 called crafting, where you can get randomly generated weapons or other items and combine them to make other items that you want. Along with weapons, you can craft hats, but they are much harder to make. They require 81 different items to be combined. Long story short I finally got my last weapon I needed to get in order to make a hat. The hats are random, sometimes they suck. Sometimes they are awesome. I hit the button, and lo and behold I got my very own hat, pictured below.
I was happy. Sure it isn't the coolest hat, but it was my hat.
What is also true about TF2, is you can buy items, including hats. So I thought to myself, "I wonder how much this costs in the store!" And there it was, my hat, with a $7.99 price tag sitting under it. 260 hours for $7.99. Sure those hours were me playing and enjoying the game, but... it just felt wrong. My huge accomplishment could be accomplished by any jagoff with a credit card and eight bucks. I just feel kinda... dirty. So what's the point of all this? Good question.
TL;DR - I put the lotion in the basket.