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So, this is because it's an older game? Or are the going to be getting into the virtual goods business?
by herdrick 16y ago
So, this is because it's an older game? Or are the going to be getting into the virtual goods business?
- stevejohnson 16y agoI would say it's a move to get new Steam users, particularly users with Macs.
- ax0n 16y agoThe "Free" part will work for me. Although I dual boot my Mac with Windows 7, and I've always wanted to try Portal, I never really got into it. That will change when I get home.
- sliverstorm 16y agoabsolutely. Also, to rope in more Portal fans, because Portal 2 is being released soon-ish. I imagine Portal downloads and purchases have also probably reached all-time lows. With the press coverage and meme-ification it got, there are probably very very few people left who would be willing to buy it, and have not because they haven't heard of it yet. Thus, by giving it away free to people who wouldn't have bought it anyway, no money lost.
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- timdorr 16y ago2.5 years is "older"?
- devinj 16y agoWell it's older than any game released in the past slightly-less-than-2.5-years, sure.
- jfoutz 16y agoWhat do you call a movie that is not a new release? I'm not sure what the right terminology is. A catalog movie maybe? old: 1 having lived for a long time; no longer young portal is no longer young, older seems reasonable to me.
- cracell 16y agoIt's a push for people to install the Mac version of Steam. Secondly I would think they've decided most people that are going to buy it, have already. So why not try to pick up more fans before the second one comes out this fall.