Some of you may know this already, but this is just a reminder that PAYDAY 1 will be free for 24 hours on the 18th of October . I think that this will be a great opportunity for people to get a game where we can maybe play together as a group (since other free games such as Team Fortress 2 aren't liked as much by some people). I've already put a couple hours into PAYDAY 2, and that's a pretty good game, despite some flaws. And I've heard many people say that its predecessor is just as good.

One of the problems with Payday 2 is that it does have some issues with optimisation, so although I'd advise that everyone get the 1st game when it goes free anyways (because naturally, it's a free game), some people with more lower end computers/laptops may struggle to run it without lagging horrendously. Although I'm not sure if those optimisation problems are exclusive to the sequel or not.

Furthermore, the last couple times Steam gave out free games for a day or so (Red Orchestra 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Sniper Elite V2 come to mind), there seem to be huge problems with servers, as well as the store and user interface of Steam, just crashing. Due to so many people rushing in at the same time, to get a free game. It can get pretty bad. And lots have people have been given at least a month heads-up on this free game thing happening. So I imagine that the servers may be bothersome, and that you should try and add it to your account as soon as possible.

That's all for now! Just add it to your calender or set an alarm on October 18th to remind you, or do whatever you technological people like to do to these days to remind you about something. I hope to be robbing banks with a few of you relatively soon. :D

EDIT: IMPORTANT NOTICE. 14/10/14

The developers of Payday (Overkill) have recently announced that Payday 1 will be available for free, now on OCTOBER THE 16TH, which is this Thursday. Please make haste and re-arrange your calender schedules and whatnot, as soon as possible. Sorry for the confusion!!

UPDATE NUMBER ONE: 16/10/14

As predicted, the servers appear to be going down a lot, since millions of people are trying to get it at once. At the moment, the purchase button on the Payday: The Heist store page appears to have disappeared. When it comes back, just add the game to your account and it's yours forever.

Make sure to join the PAYDAY 2 official group page, just in case it only lets you get it by being a member of the group for some reason. I'll keep this updated for when I see the store page working. You should have until 18:00 on the 17/10/14 to get the game added to your account.

UPDATE NUMBER TWO:

The button is now working!! Just click 'install game' and it's yours to keep forever. Note: You do not have to finish installing it by tomorrow, just make sure you start installing it and then pause it, if you need to finish it another time.

Get it here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/24240/

Happy heisting everyone!

We'd like to send out our warm congratulations to one of our own members - Liam - who has been doing some work raising money for charity. I believe that the charity is the 'RNLI', which if you don't already know, is a charity that does lots of work in help saving many lives at sea. If you're interested, their website is listed as follows: http://rnli.org/Pages/Default.aspx

I know that quite a few of our members happen to know Liam in real life (as I do), so I'd just like to say that if you haven't already donated, please give what you can . Liam has consistently showed qualities throughout the process of him raising money, such as: determination, perseverance, bravery and also most importantly - patience. These are skills that I would only be able to dream about achieving myself.

We hope that MHC can become a vital supporter of Liam's cause.

Thank you for all of your donations so far.

As for Men Has Class itself, we hope to have more updates on upcoming meetings/events soon, so until then..

Stay classy, gentlemen.

A big thank you to all those who attended our recent meeting on the 16/3/13!
It was a success, and we did manage to make some good progress on some topics and issues we were able to discuss. The highlights of the meeting include:

• We have formulated some simple, group rules that we are all to follow as members, these should now be posted on the homepage.
  
  
• We have officially decided for this group to be a semi-serious one, meaning that we will still try our best to win matches etc. But that we won't exactly be 'butt-hurt' if we lose matches. We play for fun, and if we win, even better.

It is advised that as members, you make an effort to attend as many meetings as possible. Otherwise, it means you miss out on getting your opinion across etc. It also means that you have less of a chance of being eligible for promotion, as an example.

Stay tuned for our next meeting, and remember, stay classy, gentlemen.