Freemium is best for software firms with accounting departments, not developers, and not users. 99% of people writing software do not work for Valve or Google.

Freemium is best for software firms with accounting departments, not developers, and not users. 99% of people writing software do not work for Valve or Google. If you are writing quality software, charge for it and people will pay for it. If you're porting another butt scratching tip calculator with twitter integration, then perhaps freemium is just the 5th buzzword you need to get that billion dollar eval.