"Oh God, it's happening." is my only thought.

I don't really care for the app, but I guess now I have a good reason to use the authenticator.

Now there's another beta I get to hope I get into while I have my hopes crushed with every wave of invites.

This is an awesome step forwards! Are there any conformations of any new ones yet?

tfw can't get in because phone can't download app :(

To be honest it would be better to only give MM Passes to people with Premium Accounts and with, let's say, 300 hours in-game.

download an android emulator on your PC

personally I use bluestacks but whatever probably works

It's honestly really dumb but I see where they're coming from; they've been trying to get people to do the authenticator for months now for security reasons and this is one way to encourage its use

I think its more theyre sick of cheaters in their games and forcing them to register accounts to phone numbers is a massive hassle for people using alts and dodging vac bans.

I never even thought of that. Genius.

Scare cheaters off by simply annoying them. Genius.

Can you even have more than one account tied to the same phone number? Or same phone? Otherwise we'll only see cheaters that are a bit too dedicated for their own good. Imagina buying a new phone to continue cheating in a video game.

quick reminder, this is a thing:

https://github.com/Jessecar96/SteamDesktopAuthenticator

you still need a way to get SMS on hand, but that's a one-time thing

You can have as many accounts you want on the same phone number, having 1 account on 2 phone numbers isn't possible. However the process of actually getting your account fully verified AND also adding up money to that Steam account to purchase the premium status in game is annoying and it's a decent way to put off people who want to live a simple life instantly from cheating how easy it is to do for pubs, but it won't keep them away forever from matchmaking like you mentioned about people who could be too dedicated for that if they just want.

Can't wait until the first wave of passes and to hear all the salt from the people that didn't get in.
The chance is pretty small, there is 62 000 people in the group. Let's say they invite 2000 people, that is 3.2%.
I wish they would base it at least a little bit on the amount of hours as well so we don't get all the pub pyros.

Why not prioritize people who have played on ESEA, UGC, or CEVO servers? Maybe prioritize people that have accounts linked to here or tf2center?

Because they want to know how all the different kind of players approach to the MM. They're already prioritizing those players who care most to the game and are at least informed by websites/social media (and not some random user that played 100hrs of tf just cos it's f2p)

You are just assuming that everyone in the group has premium and mobile authenticator.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/tfcompetitive/discussions/0/405692224226879090/

Tl;dr guy wants match making to be like pub.

"but mom if i dont like it no one should ever have it or even THINK of wanting it!!!"
Doubt valve will listen to these people much.

Is it possible to get cancer from a post? I think I just did.

what the fuck does he mean by "matchmaking will kill tf2"

it's literally an ADDITIONAL feature

so many people take this kid seriously.
from reading 2-3 sentences you can clearly see he cannot write anything worth while, none of his points are valid and with his english it's incredibly hard to understand what he wants to say.

"I talking about public player, iam good exaple of it and know that MM is going kill TF at all."