Tony Bark@pawb.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agoPC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us nowwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up1767arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1764arrow-down1external-linkPC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us nowwww.pcgamer.comTony Bark@pawb.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agomessage-square186fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareGoumLeChat@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 hours 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.
minus-squarelogan_hero@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 hours ago3/5 games from that list also launched as paid games, but gained majority of its players after becoming f2p. Yeah people love free stuff ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
minus-squareOrygin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoWhich ones ? Apart from CSGO, the others have always been free (on the technicality that Fortnite BR is different from the original game)
minus-squarelogan_hero@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·31 minutes agoCS 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.
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.
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)_/¯.
Which ones ? Apart from CSGO, the others have always been free (on the technicality that Fortnite BR is different from the original game)
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.