Valve Team Fortress 2 Restart In Free-to-play Title

Valve Team Fortress 2 Restart In Free-to-play Title: Develop has posted an audience with Team Fortress 2 developer Robin Walker in which he says that accompany has decided to make the popular class-based shooter all free-to-play, supported only by micro transactions. Walker says the game has experimented with multiple cost points over its long history (admitting allowing actors to act for free during temporary periods) and that making this transition now "feels like a fairly straightforward next step along the 'Games as Services' path we have been walking down for a while now. Walker also says that this is a model that specifically fits the multiplayer game at this moment in the product's life, when Valve is trying to reach as more actors as it possibly can. The permanent price drop won't affect development on the game at all, but monetization will only go through the game's item shop. You can read more in the audience, live now over at Develop. There's no official word on any of this from Valve yet, on either the Steam blog or the official Team Fortress 2 site. We're scheduled to hear about the next update today (and even see a "Meet the Medic" video) and the game was set to go free for just a week, but this is obviously a more permanent direction. We have contacted Valve and will post more here when we get it.Valve Team Fortress 2 Restart In Free-to-play Title