Team Fortress 2 Now Lets You Buy Items With Real Money

No longer will you have to endure hours of Team Fortress 2 play just to unlock the game’s hidden weapons, defensive items and wearable accessories. Today, Valve opened the Mann Co. Store, which lets you buy goods with real-world cash.

The update not only introduces a way to buy new guns, hats and fish-wrapped-in-newspaper melee weapons, it includes the long-promised Polycount Pack update. That’s the community created item sets, which add 17 new items for five of the game’s classes. Players can blow real-world cash on those items starting today. Prices range from 49 cents to $4.99 USD. Funds can be deposited to the newly launched Steam Wallet.

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Update: It appears that the TF2 store is full of items priced higher than $4.99 USD. Some hats run $7.49, $9.99 and even a ludicrous $17.49. Yikes

What’s not in this update? The new game mode that Valve had previously promised

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While Valve stands to profit from selling in-game items, so does the community. The in-game store FAQ notes “community contributors will receive a percentage of sales on items they’ve created.”

The Mann Co. Store may be goods news for the lazy, but the miserly needn’t be overly concerned about the change. Valve notes in its new Mann Co. Store FAQ that the Polycount Pack items are unlockable and craftable through normal means, just like other items.

Read more about the new “Mann-conomy” in the service’s newly released FAQ and peruse the new item sets at the Team Fortress 2 official site to see if that five dollar Spy knife is something you’d like to buy.

Probably not a big deal, but… [TF2 Blog]