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That's not the kind of "free to play" that Valve promotes. The phone apps are much, much more spammy. Valve mostly takes AAA games and can open them for free be
by cookiecaper 14y ago
That's not the kind of "free to play" that Valve promotes. The phone apps are much, much more spammy. Valve mostly takes AAA games and can open them for free because the money they make as a facilitator between content creators and consumers pays for the game. The content makers make awesome stuff and get paid, the consumers get awesome stuff and have fun. Valve takes a commission for providing both the entertainment and payment platform. Everyone wins.
It's a one-way street on most phone apps. The devs write a little phone game, and then put 90% of it behind staged paywalls. Quite a different thing than what Gabe has done, and what he discusses here.
- tedunangst 14y agoI guess I've never thought of TF2 as a AAA game. It was just a bonus you got for buying the Orange Box, or a kind of goodwill offering that kept you hooked on valve/steam. I'm not surprised their revenue spiked after making it free, I'm surprised people paid for it in the first place. :)
- Pkeod 14y ago>I'm surprised people paid for it in the first place. :) Based on this, as a developer, I wouldn't take your opinion that you hate F2P games seriously, and I would never want to make games for the audience you belong to. TF2 is one of the best games available to play and my second favorite game ever made. Haters gonna hate.