Wednesday, August 22, 2012  Penny Arcade on F2P  A few days ago,
Penny Arcade posted a comic that matches a lot of my feelings on
F2P:  I preferred those days too.   spinksville said...  The F2P
boom reminds me of the dotcom boom (the bit where every online
company was offering crazy cheap/free deals because they wanted
more eyeballs on their site.)  I just don't see how it can work
once they can't guarantee getting huge numbers of players unless
they can find a way to produce games/content more cheaply.
Redbeard said...  You could say the same thing on Valor and
Justice and Commendations and....  SoundsAV said...  Difference
is you don't buy Valor, Justice, etc. with real money like
tickets and vouchers in TF2  Durentis said...  Talking about F2P
is like talking about politics rather than, say, democracy -
there are many different models of F2P. Most of them, including
the one I co-designed and ran for three years, make awful
decisions so I can see where the sentiment comes from. But there
is one model that