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Originally posted by ownagefool View PostFor the record though, valve previously gave portal away for free (and probably still do unless you've got an Intel graphics card), currently give Team Fortress 2 away for free, claim to be giving away DOTA2 for free, and, I suspect, will give L4D away for free for too (as its the linux lauch title, and not super new). When steam comes to linux (and the games get ported) theres almost no excuse for not trying them unless you really hate first person games (which dota2 isnt). They're all relativly modern, and 90%+ games.
So no matter if it's free or even if they pay me if it calls home, scans memory, or does many of its other questionable acts.
So yeah, I could try it in a VM that doesn't have net access. Except the VM's horrible 3d performance. And that they wouldn't allow that, because without net access they can't call home, among other things. But this is getting offtopic.
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Their business model
Once the item store was introduced, revenues from item sales alone were four times larger than revenues from sales of TF2 itself, and after the free-to-play transition was finished, overall revenue was up 12 times higher than monthly TF2 sales were.
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Originally posted by curaga View PostTrue, I measure by bang per buck, or ((playtime / $) * quality).
I've never played anything Valve, so I didn't know that was an episode for 19.99$. By how long they took to make it I just assumed it had to be a full-length one.
For the record though, valve previously gave portal away for free (and probably still do unless you've got an Intel graphics card), currently give Team Fortress 2 away for free, claim to be giving away DOTA2 for free, and, I suspect, will give L4D away for free for too (as its the linux lauch title, and not super new). When steam comes to linux (and the games get ported) theres almost no excuse for not trying them unless you really hate first person games (which dota2 isnt). They're all relativly modern, and 90%+ games.
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Originally posted by rustybroomhandle View PostJust an aside - don't measure the value of any game by the time it takes to complete it.
I've never played anything Valve, so I didn't know that was an episode for 19.99$. By how long they took to make it I just assumed it had to be a full-length one.
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Originally posted by curaga View PostAverage finish time less than 7h? For a full length game?
Dear god, Valve is worse than I thought.
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostNot necessarily, I'm sure they could figure out something to see what OS it's used on/bought for. Perhaps by checking how many downloads were done for a particular version of a game.
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Originally posted by curaga View PostAverage finish time less than 7h? For a full length game?Last edited by kwahoo; 20 August 2012, 07:46 AM.
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Average finish time less than 7h? For a full length game?
Dear god, Valve is worse than I thought.
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostPerhaps by checking how many downloads were done for a particular version of a game.
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