Looking at my Steam account, I have 412 hours played on Team Fortress 2. My friend gifted me a premium account, but to this day, I have never had a hat or a item drop for me. I read on the wiki that it's possible and I've had hundreds of drops so chances are I should've received a hat or something by now. What gives?
It's especially annoying when you're trying to make a buck on the Steam economy.
Hat drops are very rare. The exact probability is unknown, but it is very small. To find it out, you would need to log your hours of playing over a very long period of time, and not to log the time over 10 hours per week (as it is not counted for the drop system). There is some data, but I don't know if you can actually trust it.
Robot Unicorn says here:
I have 13 idling accounts, and ill talk about what I get in one week counting all of them. I always find something special like objector or name tag.
More likely I find 1 or 2 hats per week, some of my last drops were Fast learner and Bootie time.
My most lucky week was 4 hats + mann co. orange. Sometimes I find 2 hats in same week same account
Another guy says:
I've got 2 in an old account it had nearly 1000 hrs
All about luck bbg
And one more guy:
2780 hours and I have had many. Around 7
So, again, just don't bother and play. Most hats are not worth much anyway. If you really, really want a particular hat, buy a Key, sell it for metal, and trade metal for the hat you need.
In Team Fortress 2 Hat drops are very rare, so that is most likely the problem.
A second thought is that there might be a bug in the game, although the probablility is that the 1st one is the problem.
What to do:
Check your game is fully updated If your game is not fully updated, update it now.
Continue Playing Continue Playing the game. If nothing has dropped in 600 hours, Then THere could be a problem.
