Team Fortress 2 gets $100 in-game engagement ring

If children were not starving in Africa in I had the money on the side I'd buy it for a friend just for the lulz.

But yeah..

Do they also announce it when the proposal is rejected?

Forever alone.

Valve outright told us that it's "basically useless," so I don't see how anyone could be annoyed by it.

trolololololol

I didn't even know there was that big of a community still playing this game. 5 year old shooter? I found it medeocre and gave up after like 2 weeks, years ago. If this story is true, good for Valve - some people just have too much money. Blizzard has had useless vanity items in game for years now - I imagine they've made millions off them.

Fake? What happens if the person says no? April Fools Leaked?

First thing that came to mi mind was "whoever pays for this actually deserves to pay for it"

@dRuGGeRnaUt I think its partly a spoof of this once Free-to-Play racing game I saw (NFS?) where the developers said they added a 100$ car, and they were completely serious about the price.

It's tempting... I mean come on, wouldn't it be hilarious to be able to say you've been a part of this? Let alone in a game where it happens? How the hell would everyone react(I picture confetti flying everywhere, everyone just stops what they're doing and they start jumping while spinning shouting obligatory congrats phrases...this needs to be on Youtube)?

welp time to make a new tf2 meme. instead of hats it'll be rings

Any other company did this, it would be blasphemous, but blizzard/valve do it, and its "oh valve you hopeless romantic". I think its fine they sell things like this, dont like it dont buy it, but to come up with justifications why its okay that VALVE does this is ignorant. Blizz/valve have the most extremely dedicated defensive fanbase, and usually are incapable of admiting even the slightest faults.

Geeze. Valve gives an interesting way to propose to your girlfriend, Gamespot community poo-poos it because it doesn't give enough ingame benefit and/or is too expensive. How does everyone here feel about paying someone to write your proposal in the sky or other silly gestures?

I can't believe people are taknig this seriously.... Even the dumba$$es calling this a milking by Valve.... are you guys mentally challenged?? THIS IS A JOKE. A jest Valve made for Valentine's Day. They even wrote in it's description--- BASICALLY USELESS. Any moron who takes this seriously should probably steer clear of TF2, or any Valve game for that matter, and anyone who is stupid enough to buy this is either a major love sicknerd or is just an idiot, and deserves to have that money taken away from him. Well played, Valve, well played....

Uh, why?

wow, trying to milk money out of lovesick nerds. shame on you valve... shame...

Ffs please just use the money to buy a real ring....

What would suck is if she said no because you are a money wasting dumb@$$. *frowny face*

I'm waiting for DLC cars to sale for retail price.

does p.t barnum's ghost run valve cause this proves theres a sucker born every minute

marry me Valve

this is so ironic. Valve is like the hipster of gaming devs.

just ridiculous

Unless your girlfriend is that much into gaming and you really want to marry her, $100 on a fricken valentine's gift for something that can be used only in a single game......get her something better for that amount of money. though if you are spending $100 in a in-game engagement ring hate to see how much you are spending on the real one.

"it's basically useless" Oh, Valve, you hopeless romantic fool, you...

in a few months i bet valve will reward the ppl who bought these and make it tradeable and it will end up be worth more then 100$

I dont need to buy this. *forever alone*

well thats sweet, considering the multitude of female gamers playing TF2...definitely useless alright...

I'm gonna buy two just to flaunt my wealth. It's good to have land.

ahahahahahahaha

Don't buy it if you don't want it.

@decebal Thats because they KNOW its worthless, thats the point. Its not like they flaunt it to be an actually USEFUL item. They even say its useless. its for sentimental value only, and couples who both play tf2 might get it anyway.

When EA added a $75 super car that you can actually use, everybody ate them for breakfast. $100 ring it's all great, because it's Valve, and we should all suck up to them.

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@Gelugon_baat "Activision and EA won't tell the potential customer that they are wasting their money with a purchase." haha true.

....the Ultimate Rip-Off.....but i dont know why that made me Love Valve even More :D

While it does seem an bit stupid to add a useless Engagement Ring the Unusual Hats go for quite a bit more than $100 sometimes and people still buy them they don't seem to care if its a virtual hat. I hear the next update will release a $200 virtual C**kring. Non-tradable of course. =P

There are people that need new ways to dispose of their excess money, and Valve is willing to accommodate them. Why not? As long as the game is making money, it will survive. It is hard not to be a little peeved by this if you are scraping to make ends meet, but those folks need to dispose of that $100 somewhere, and perhaps it's better for us that they do so in TF2 than a real jewelers shop. This is the world we actually live in, like it or not. "Fairness" only exists in games and fairy tales. Now Valve needs to escalate this strategy, IMO. How about a $10,000 necktie, or a $100,000 pair of sunglasses? That could go a long way toward keeping servers up and running for a while. Heck, throw down $1,000,000 and they can make an island and name it after you.

Believe it or not, there is someone somewhere that wants this. Guaranteed.

Valve are hilarious. Can I buy one of these and marry GlaDos please?

The last game I played that added a $100 cash-shop item started an irl protest (albeit small) outside the company's European office, the game shut down about 2 months later due to lack of profits.

lol?

$100...FOR A DIGITAL RING?! You have got to be kidding me. At least Valve admits it's "Basically Useless".

Is this a joke? people who buy this don't deserve to have money.

I calmed down when I saw the part where it said "basically useless". Valve is great.

There's a saying about fools and there money being soon parted and this is just another example of how true that is.