Steam adds free to play games!

[Failhorse]

Official here: http://store.steampowered.com/news/5657/
Five F2P Launch Titles Offering Exclusive Content to Celebrate Launch

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today introduced support for Free to Play (F2P) Games on Steam with the launch of five F2P games.

Available immediately, the launch titles are Spiral Knights, Forsaken Worlds, Champions Online: Free for All, Global Agenda: Free Agent, and Alliance of Valliant Arms (AVA).

Beginning tomorrow (Weds) with Spiral Knights and concluding Sunday with AVA, each of the five launch titles will offer exclusive in-game content to those who try the "F2P game of the day" on Steam. In game transactions in all of the titles will be supported by Steam's micro-transaction backend system that is available to Steamworks partners and currently used in Valve's Team Fortress 2.

"The introduction of Free to Play games is another example of the constant evolution of Steam," said Jason Holtman, director of business development at Valve. "Free to Play games offer new game genres and game experiences for customers, while offering developers and publishers new revenue opportunities and the ability to reach customers in areas of the world where the traditional packaged goods model is less popular than F2P."

Specific details on the F2P games of the day and their exclusive in-game content will be made available in the coming days.

Steam is a leading platform for PC & Mac games and digital entertainment serving over 1,500 games to over 30 million active accounts worldwide. For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com


We'll check to see if any of these games allow for dedicated servers.

[Termz]

F2P games were like, free to start playing, but you can pay for overpowered items, right?

[Nikki Wolf]

The F2P games are MMOs.

[Jake]

The F2P games are MMOs.

Not necessarily. Global Agenda and Spiral Knights are both instance based games.

F2P games were like, free to start playing, but you can pay for overpowered items, right?

Depends on the model. If you've ever played a browser game on facebook where you were only allowed to make a certain number of turns or moves each day, but could purchase more, that's a lot like the Spiral Knights model. Some games such as the soon to be released free-to-play All Points Bulletin use weapon upgrades and additional player slots as incentive to pay a fee.

[Toaster]

The F2P games are MMOs.

Not necessarily. Global Agenda and Spiral Knights are both instance based games.

F2P games were like, free to start playing, but you can pay for overpowered items, right?

Depends on the model. If you've ever played a browser game on facebook where you were only allowed to make a certain number of turns or moves each day, but could purchase more, that's a lot like the Spiral Knights model. Some games such as the soon to be released free-to-play All Points Bulletin use weapon upgrades and additional player slots as incentive to pay a fee.

I got a beta invite a few months ago for the new apb since I wasted $40 on the failed game... +$60 of game time -_-

[Jake]

I got a beta invite a few months ago for the new apb since I wasted $40 on the failed game... +$60 of game time -_-

I played it a smidge, it's fun-ish if you're not stuck in a pub group

[BoB Dolen]

Oh jesus so get the flood of mostly bad F2P games....

[VoltySquirrel]

Fuck ijji.com. "Sorry, but your region is not supported." Are you fucking kidding me? Japan is not that far away from South Korea. I guess I'm going to try Champions.

[Spyder]

Global Agenda is actually a pretty good game imo.

Don't know about the rest of them.