I think people are overreacting a bit. You can still get everything for free. and who cares that noobs can buy stuff now I mean serious, we know how to play the game, how to adjust our tactics based on used weapons and they don't. People are looking totally wrong at the idea behind the shop. Picture it as their donations button, you guys donate for gc too why can't they ask money for weapons too. The only difference being that you can earn all the stuff from the shop without paying and you can't with gc. Valve is still a company which has to pay bills, employees, taxes, etc.