Team Fortress 2 raises $300k for Japan

By Fred Dutton Published 30 March, 2011

Limited edition DLC does the business.

Last week Valve started offering Team Fortress 2 players three different pieces of limited edition in-game headwear, with all proceeds going to the post-tsunami relief effort in Japan.

According to a message on the official Team Fortress 2 site, the promotion has now raised a whopping $300,000.

"Wow. Seriously, people, WOW," read the post. "We knew you had it in you, but we're still amazed you've raised over $300,000 so far.

"Take a BOW, TF2 community - because that is an incredible, frankly astounding, amount of money from a dedicated number of gamers, to one heck of a lot of people in some real need right now."

The three items will be available until 6th April if you still want to get involved. The Humanitarian's Hachimaki is going for the local equivalent of $7.99, the Benefactor's Kanmuri $19.99 and Magnanimous Monarch $99.99. The hats can be equipped by all classes but can't be traded or used for crafting.

Valve is donating the proceeds to the disaster fund set up by the American Red Cross.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • Goodfella #1 1 year ago

    That's actually very impressive, bravo everyone.

  • bad09 #2 1 year ago

    Well done TF2 community, pat yourselves on the back. Kudos to Valve as well for doing it.

  • stegabba #3 1 year ago

    some other developers should do things like this because it the players want new items they get them and you are helping the people whose lifes havee been destroeyd the the tsnuami

  • patchbox360 #4 1 year ago

    awesome

  • matrim83 #5 1 year ago

    Amazing stuff. Hats off to the amazing TF 2 community.

    What? Someone had to do it.

  • Squidgywidgywoo #6 1 year ago

    Fantastic. Would definitely buy a couple of bits for other games or my Xbox Live avatar.

  • DirectAim #7 1 year ago

    Blizzard should do it, well done Valve and the awesome TF community, how come I have only just heard about it, EG have u posted about this previously?

  • djed #8 1 year ago

    What was the DLC called? "No Asian"?

  • handsonhips101 #9 1 year ago

    Eurogamer admin; Ffs sort these bots out. I don't want cheap sunglasses or Nike air Jordan. It's becoming annoying.

    Well done valve, is this available to xbox/ps3 tf2 players? I'm interested to know how much Sony raised via the psn as well.

  • metalangel #10 1 year ago

    How does this compare to the amount Valve have made off normal hats/keys to the boxes/that polycount DLC which was, as I understand it, all community-made stuff?

    EDIT: I should have said before, but it doesn't look like Valve are matching player donations themselves.
    Edited by metalangel at 31/03/11 @ 11:45

  • Alf-Life #11 1 year ago

    I play TF2 every day... and this is amazing. However I've yet to buy a hat because I feel it would be selfish to get something [a hat] in exchange for donating money. People who donate to the Red Cross normally don't get something to reward them (although they claim their tax back, so that's another issue with that...) ...so, do I buy a hat...? I'm donating, but I'm also getting something in return which goes against the selfless part of 'charity', right? :s

  • spongebob #12 1 year ago

    Yeah, great job! I wish MS did a similar thing with Avatars.

  • Skooch #13 1 year ago

    Great idea. Great game. Great work everyone.