Team Fortress 2 becomes free to play... forever?!

[Scott-105]

Well, A TON of people already own this game, so they've already made a lot off of it. Making it free is good for people who don't have it yet.

 

[CarbonX13]

To anyone downloading at this moment, how fast is your DL speed? I'm hitting a maximum of 600KB/s, though averaging only around 200KB/s.

 

[BloodyFlame]

To anyone downloading at this moment, how fast is your DL speed? I'm hitting a maximum of 600KB/s, though averaging only around 200KB/s.

I'm just kinda stuck at "Download paused" even though I resumed it after my Steam client crashed.

 

[doyama]

Mine kinda varied but it took about 20 minutes to download the 200mb file

 

[Eckin]

the worst part is after your download is finished and you can't even open your loadout.

ugh.

 

[CarbonX13]

Mine kinda varied but it took about 20 minutes to download the 200mb file

200MB? How come mine is 10GB?

 

[BloodyFlame]

Mine kinda varied but it took about 20 minutes to download the 200mb file

200MB? How come mine is 10GB?

I think he meant that it took him 20 minutes to download 200MB.

 

[Eckin]

Mine kinda varied but it took about 20 minutes to download the 200mb file

200MB? How come mine is 10GB?

probably the update, not the whole game

 

[deathking]

the update is around 500 meg

 

[BrightNeko]

what is Temp Fortress ip?

 

[ZaeZae64]

If anyone needs a coach I'd be more then happy to give them a tip or two.
just add me on steam.

 

[YayMii]

Holy crap, just logged in, and it seems that they also released the FULL Source SDK FOR FREE.
WOOT Now everyone has access to all the Steam mods

 

[naglaro00]

I hate you Valve.

Give the premium accounts more benefits :|

 

[Valwin]

Lol Valve screws everyone silly the people that actually pay for the game

 

[Saddamsdevil]

Good business model, even if not the most ethical business model.

So they have made a massive amount of money on the game when it shipped in the orange box, and through separate steam purchases, meaning the people who were going to buy it would have BOUGHT it by now. (its been out for like... 2/3 years?)

So they introduce a new game-shop function and BOOM, continuous money flowing towards them, even from people who already paid. Then they just need to introduce the game to a wider audience and make the offers in the shop more attractive. This gives them more profit than the sale of the game would ever do.

As for the cheater problem, I imagine if you are found cheating they will reset your account somehow, losing your micro purchases.

 

[CarbonX13]

This gives them more profit than the sale of the game would ever do.

It also allows Valve to expand the incredible lifetime of the game even further.

I don't see how making Team Fortress 2 F2P is unfair. Those who really wanted to play the game would've bought it, and you weren't complaining until they make it free? That doesn't make any sense. You've still got your game, and essentially you got it earlier than everyone else currently downloading on Steam.

 

[ZaeZae64]

I guess it'll be nice to have more folks from the temp on TF2.
Also good luck with finding some hats in TF2. you're gonna need it~
http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Pocket_Medic
Good lord do I want this item :c

 

[Saddamsdevil]

I am actually going to start playing this. I know nothing about it yet.. we'll see when I get home from work if it'll be done downloading.

 

[deathking]

This gives them more profit than the sale of the game would ever do.

It also allows Valve to expand the incredible lifetime of the game even further.

I don't see how making Team Fortress 2 F2P is unfair. Those who really wanted to play the game would've bought it, and you weren't complaining until they make it free? That doesn't make any sense. You've still got your game, and essentially you got it earlier than everyone else currently downloading on Steam.

I really dont care that new players get in , in some ways its good and will mean more servers and players
but with free means more hackers , more greifers and more accounts made for getting items

 

[ZaeZae64]

This gives them more profit than the sale of the game would ever do.

It also allows Valve to expand the incredible lifetime of the game even further.

I don't see how making Team Fortress 2 F2P is unfair. Those who really wanted to play the game would've bought it, and you weren't complaining until they make it free? That doesn't make any sense. You've still got your game, and essentially you got it earlier than everyone else currently downloading on Steam.

I really dont care that new players get in , in some ways its good and will mean more servers and players
but with free means more hackers , more greifers and more accounts made for getting items

I fear the first 2 things as well.
But you can't trade items on free accounts so the 3rd won't be as big of an issue.