Note: This is the video's script and may not be formatted well for reading.

This video covers Premium Benefits, the server mod. Not to be confused with anything related to upgrading a Team Fortress 2 account from Free to Play to Premium.

Premium Benefit is a Team fortress 2 server plugin. Unlike most mods presented in this series, Premium Benefit isn’t a full blown mod-gamemode. It’s a significantly game-changing mod but doesn’t affect standard game objectives.

Premium Benefit servers in Team Fortress 2 first appeared shortly after the game launched in October 2007. Currently there are roughly 200 servers with Premium Benefit.

So what is Premium Benefits?

Premium Benefit is a mod where players who donate money towards a server receive benefits when playing on said server.


Premium Benefit servers can be separated into 2 categories. Cosmetic benefits and pay-to-win.

Cosmetic benefits servers basically reward players who donate with cosmetic rewards. Things like particle effect on their weapons or something not really game-changing like being picked last to be autobalanced.

Pay-to-win Premium Benefits on the other hand are essentially cheats rewarded to player who donate. Benefit granted to a player differs from server to server greatly. Some example of Pay-to-win Premium Benefits are: faster momement speed, no recharge timers on items, playing as a tiny player and no respawn times.


Pay-to-win Premium Benefit servers exist as a constant point of discussion in the Team Fortress 2 community. Players despise and blacklist these servers. Playing on and supporting these servers is frowned upon. A recurring point of criticism about theses kinds of servers concerns their inclusion in the quickplay system. Players argue these servers shouldn’t be available in quickplay as they don’t represent a true Team Fortress 2 play-experience and could leave new players with a bad first encounter with the game.


And that’s basically Premium Benefits in a nutshell. A way for servers to make money in either a reasonable or an arguably despicable way.

Thanks for reading. Don't forget to like/fav if you did.

• Don't play on pay-to-win premium benefit servers. Even for messing around.
  
• Minecraft is game notorious for having pay-to-win premium benefit servers. In Minecraft almost all of all competitive or minigame servers offer advantages for money.

- Next Guide:
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=210879754
- Previous Guide:
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=206965371
All My Guides