Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
GoumLeChat@jlai.lu 2 weeks agoI’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.
logan_hero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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)_/¯.
Orygin@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Which ones ? Apart from CSGO, the others have always been free (on the technicality that Fortnite BR is different from the original game)
logan_hero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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 ganemode and still costing money, but was originally planned to transition to f2p.
Orygin@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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