Valve's making its own F2P

[Rakewell]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/35330/Portals_Valve_Creating_FreeToPlay_Game.php

Report: Portal 's Valve Creating Free-To-Play Game

Following up on last week's news that microtransaction-based free-to-play games will be coming to its Steam service, Valve has confirmed that it, too, will release its own title using that model.

Speaking to French website Barre de Vie, Valve spokesman Doug Lombardi was characteristically cryptic, simply saying "yes" when asked if the company had its own free-to-play projects in the works.

Some have speculated that the company's upcoming Dota 2 may be sold under this model, referencing the fact that Riot Games' popular League of Legends -- a strategy game clearly inspired by the original "Dota," Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients -- is a free-to-play game.

Valve's Steam storefront currently offers five free-to-play games: Ijji and Redduck's A.V.A., Perfect World's Forsaken Worlds MMORPG, Atari and Cryptic's Champions Online Free For All, Hi Rez Studios' Global Agenda: Free Agent shooter, and Three Rings Design and Sega's Spiral Knights MMORPG.

"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," Valve director of business development Jason Holtman said in a statement last week.

Valve did not immediately respond to a request by Gamasutra for clarification.

 

[skace]

fyi FTP != F2P. I thought they were making a new walnut creek to go with Steam. Had me boggling.

 

[Rakewell]

fyi FTP != F2P. I thought they were making a new walnut creek to go with Steam. Had me boggling.

Ooops. LOL

Sorry about that. Fixed

 

[bunnyfubbles]

yeah, good idea on the title change, I was thinking this had something do with Valve introducing some sort of FTP feature for Steam to make it easier to share files with friends (game recordings, etc) considering the recent additions they've made with sharing screenshots and videos

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

It's going to be called TF3.

 

[gothamhunter]

I would be interested in a Valve mmorpg.

 

[gorcorps]

Really? You have time to make a F2P game but you can't give us Half Life in a decent time frame?

 

[BD231]

Really? You have time to make a F2P game but you can't give us Half Life in a decent time frame?

Probably just another half baked form of income (Battlefield FTP)

 

[zerocool84]

Yet still not Episode 3

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

It's going to be called TF3.

Hats will have guns mounted in them.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Really? You have time to make a F2P game but you can't give us Half Life in a decent time frame?

they have time to make games that they think will make them the most money for the least amount of effort

games like Half Life or even Portal 2 simply aren't cost effective because of how huge and scripted they are relative to anotherwise extremely simple game like TF2 or even L4D

Hats will have guns mounted in them.

I'd rather have hats for my guns

 

[Powermoloch]

F2P...sigh

 

[crisium]

Yet still not Episode 3

And therein lies the current problem with Valve.

 

[makken]

so, is TF2 it? or do they have another F2P title in the works?

 

[Muscles]

It's probably going to be DotA 2.

 

[bart1975]

I hope portal 2 gets this treatment