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Valve's Team Fortress 2 Goes Free-To-Play

Posted by Soulskill on from the we're-seeing-which-way-the-wind-blows dept.

heptapod writes "Valve has announced that Team Fortress 2 is now free to play. 'We've been toying with the idea of making Team Fortress free-to-play ever since the Mann-conomy update [in September 2010],' said Valve's Robin Walker. 'Team Fortress 2 would only be monetized by microtransaction payments. No advertising model will be pursued, Walker said. No premium subscription model will be used. No cynical "pay-to-win" options will be implemented, he assured.'"

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  1. Free to play accounts are limited by VGPowerlord · · Score: 4, Informative

    They've also made it so new accounts have limits, such as:
    No random cosmetic item drops.
    Can receive items in trades but not send them.
    Cannot gift items to other players
    50-slot backpack (as opposed to 300-slot for normal accounts)
    Limited crafting recipes.

    Of course, the way to "fix" this is to buy anything from the Mann Co. Store. That'd be easy... if it weren't for Valve having a $5 minimum on funds put into your Steam wallet.

    These restrictions make sense, though. They are in place to prevent people from creating a whole bunch of Steam accounts to farm item drops.

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    1. Re:Free to play accounts are limited by Ced_Ex · · Score: 5, Funny

      However, you can add $5 to your Steam wallet, buy a Rocket Jumper for $0.99 and have $3.99 left to spend on Steam daily sale games.

      $5 - $0.99 = $3.99?

      I believe Steam approves of your arithmetic.

      He had to subtract his 2 cents for his thoughts.

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