Team Fortress 2 in particular is very interesting. The game started its life as an exemplification of product purity and exellence—only later did Valve decide t

Team Fortress 2 in particular is very interesting. The game started its life as an exemplification of product purity and exellence—only later did Valve decide to turn it into a test bed for microtransactions. Obviously that experiment has been very successful, but we also don't know how it would have fared had Valve stayed the course and stuck to a more traditional strategy, continually updating the game while selling it for a reasonable price. >What is more vexing in my opinion is when an organization creates works that are widely agreed upon as high quality, whilst still abusing monetization efforts to various degrees. The production values might be high quality, but the product as a whole isn't, because monetization efforts detract from the overall quality of the product.