Team Fortress 2 Free-to-Play for PC, Mac

From DailyTech: Video game developer Valve has announced that "Team Fortress 2" will become entirely free to play for PC and Mac customers.

"Team Fortress 2" is a first-person shooter multiplayer video game that was released in October 2007 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Mac OS X. It was developed and published by Valve Corporation.

"Team Fortress 2" has undergone several updates, with over 200 for the PC edition alone. But this may be one of the largest updates of all, as Valve offers the full experience of "Team Fortress 2" free of charge.

"Over the years, we've done a bunch of price experimentations with 'Team Fortress 2,' going all the way down to $2.49 in our random one-hour Halloween sales," said Robin Walker of Valve. "The more we've experimented, the more we've learned there are fundamentally different kinds of customers, each with their own way of valuing the product.

"We've been toying with the idea of making 'Team Fortress' free-to-play ever since the Mann-conomy updates [in September 2010]. The data we got back from that update leads us to believe that TF2 would be more successful as a completely free product."

Walker assured that "Team Fortress2" will not have any pay-to-win options, premium subscriptions or advertising models. It will be completely free, with the exception of in-game items. In-game purchases will be the only way Valve will make any money from "Team Fortress 2."

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