Valve Tries To Clean Up The TF2 Economy, No More Idling!

Is connected to a VAC secured server. - Easy to do, wouldn't cause any problems.
Is responding to in-game drop notifications while not utilizing external programs to do so. - This will be the biggest annoyance, but only requires you to not be AFK while idling.
Is running only one instance of the game. - Sandboxie allowed you to bypass the one instance of Steam limit, otherwise VMWare would do it.
Is not in textmode. - Only increases the resources required.

Sounds more like a deterrent to stop people from starting since it's so easy as i, but this will not put an end to idling. I'd hazard to say it's too little too late if they're wanting to "correct" the economy.

You are exactly 1 week late

You can probably still use macros to bypass the second part. The rest are non-issue.

Ok, good for them?

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My thought on that.

Well, dota is then.

finally!

While you're active on the computer, just run it muted and windowed in the background at a tiny resolution and check it to hit "ok" every 30 mins or so. A tad more work, but still idle-able.

I'll just find a vac server and periodically check if I got any drops to approve while doing other stuff

Won't change anything. Well, it will probably deter the guys who have just one account and idles by leaving the game running when he goes out to dinner but the guy with 1500 accounts running on a farm? He won't even care.

There is exactly ZERO problem in the terms above for any big idle farm already existing. Ok, non-text mode can put idling calculators out of business, and depending how the 'one game instance' is handled big idlers can have problems, but still, they already can do all to bypass the new limits...

I'm not a serious programmer, but can't you have the console to press enter every now and then? Or maybe click at a certain location xD

Wasn't there someone who had thousands of premium accounts?

Now I really feel sorry for that guy who bought premium for his 160 accounts. <--- Seriously?! Why on the earth would you do that?

Am I the only one that hates Idlers?

Hat Simulator.

Meh, i hope this not destroy the trade part of tf2 keys for games or the metals for keys, if that´s destroyed i´m gonna be really angry with valve, because this time they are really like the politics, they f... cof cof destroy the things the people want and not help in the things the people want help like support(robot support ¬¬) and other things...

Couldn't you just put something heavy on the W and A key so that your character runs in circles so it's not really idling ?

I wasn't aware there was an official announcement from Valve regarding idling. I had previously found a workaround to circumvent the new update, though with Valve being fairly anti-idling now, I'm just not going to bother idling from now on. I had a fairly small idle farm compared to others and while it was profitable, it's simply not worth the risk to me. I'm a bit sad I cashed in on my small warehouse of refined metals just 2 weeks ago now.

It will probably take quite some time before pricing levels out a bit, since there's an absurd amount of metals and items just floating out there.

By cleaning it, it means killing it. Team Fortress 2 will die and people will start to move on to Dota 2.

To late, TF3 should be out by now if you ask me...not that I care, didn't care for TF2.

Just seems silly to do it this late in the game.

Crisis, crisis everywhere

good, I seriously like the news.
I want to see the world burn

I have 2 accounts to get more items, but that's only due to the fact that I run out of drops within around 3 days. I'd much rather just keep playing and keep getting items.

Does anyone know if they've applied this kind of thing to card drops? I normally have a game running in the background while I watch youtube to get my cards, but since this news item, it doesn't seem to work too well anymore. I get the first card after about 20 minutes, as usual, but then nothing more drops. I have to restart the game to get another card.

Yes! I Can finally Uninstall TF2!!!