Have you ever played Hero Academy?

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(08-10-2012 02:13 AM)GreatGonzales Wrote:  

(08-10-2012 02:01 AM)Anyr Wrote:  Though obviously this is a subjective matter, I don't consider something a 'sell-out' unless it hurts the game/playerbase for the sake of material gain. By choosing Team Fortress as the skin for its new team, Robot doesn't seem to have harmed either of those things; Quite the opposite, in fact. Association with such a high profile franchise will probably draw in plenty of new players who'd otherwise never have touched Hero Academy, while depriving the existing players of nothing. And as you yourself pointed out, the mechanics for the new team look excellent, so they clearly haven't cut any corners there. The flavour, of course, is a matter of taste; Some will like it, and some won't, just like always. But I'd be willing to wager that more people will be pleased at being able to play these iconic, renowned characters in Hero Academy, than will be upset that a forum suggestion wasn't used instead.

I agree that this move does not hurt the playerbase - indeed, steam users will greatly increase and improve it - but I do think that this new team hurts the game. They have contaminated the purity of its vision. I don't think they needed to use a forum suggestion, I mentioned that as a means of illustrating how TF2 is, to a slight extent, a betrayal of the game's hardcore community, and of the fact that there were a million better team ideas at their disposal than TF2. The game is called "Hero Academy" and it has a fantasy setting with fantasy characters, and now there will be large men with machine guns fighting elves. I don't like that. But as you said, this is my subjective opinion.

Can't "fantasy" have a broader definition? I certainly don't think there are any invisible men or medics with guns that shoot green waves at their allies in order to boost fire power in the real world. If it's fun and balanced, I don't see how it hurts the game. With so many different units, they must have had a heck of a time balancing that team.