• GoumLeChat@jlai.lu
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    1 day ago

    I’m old enough to have bought TF2. Played a little less than a thousand hours. Even counting a few in-game purchases, the cost per hour is very low.

    But free means no barrier, you can join anytime,m and stay if you like it. Your friends can try it out too.

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      24 hours ago

      3/5 games from that list also launched as paid games, but gained majority of its players after becoming f2p. Yeah people love free stuff ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

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        10 hours ago

        Which ones ? Apart from CSGO, the others have always been free (on the technicality that Fortnite BR is different from the original game)

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          6 hours ago

          CS was paid, Dota and Fortnite had “early access” packs before being released. Yeah fortnite is the odd one out here with keeping early access stuff to seperate gamemode and still costing money, but was originally planned to transition to f2p.

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            4 hours ago

            Dota was always going to be f2p, and maybe you could buy the beta access, but I, like many others, never paid and just got invited. So I would not consider it to be a paid game going f2p