The Hat Mon

For those that are interested, here is my general history of hat giving:

I started it as a reverse psychology scheme for new players, ranging from levels 1-10. I would give them a hat, then they would want more. I wouldn't give them more, so they would invest in TF2 and thus play the game more.

At that time, I had a selection of hats I would show the person in the trade. They would pick one and then I would give them that hat. It was a bit iffy because sometimes people just hit accept without reading the general chat, then get annoyed when i said i wasn't giving them all of the hats.

Soon, my leaderboard began to glitch. Certain players that weren't new were showing up as new. I began to give out hats to very high level players, without realising it. So, I decided to remove the level cap completely.

Around this time, I had moved to a new process. I had hats for every class, so after asking what class they wanted I would give them a random hat for that class.

Then, I got scammed. I lost a lot of items, and took a massive break from TF2 to play other games like Splatoon and Paladins. Even now, I play those games a fair bit more than I used to with TF2 (especially Splatoon). After a while, I picked the game back up and began to rebuild my inventory.

Then I got scammed again. Rebuilt once more, and here we are.

The process now is something people may be more familiar with. I just give you a random hat for all-class. But, this process was refined further when trades began to break. I couldn't send a trade in the new steam chat system - so i moved to trade offers.

This, so far, has had little problems. Maybe some removal of private inventories, but not much. And here we are today.

This is basically the full history of my free hat giving. Now, my main loadout is a pirate scout. If you look back through my SFM posters on my account, you'll spot a scout with an unusual. This used to be my old appearance, before the scam attempts.

So, history lesson over. Enjoy the free hats, friends.