If you haven't yet had the chance to play Team Fortress 2, you really don't have an excuse now. Valve is is making the popular shooter permanently free-to-play; the only form of monetization will be through micro-transactions.



"We've been toying with the idea of making Team Fortress free-to-play ever since the Mann-conomy update [in September 2010]," Valve's Robin Walker told Develop.
According to Walker, Valve has no plans to implement a premium subscription model or "pay-to-win" options. And despite the new focus on micro-transactions, free in-game items will continue to be available.
Valve's main goal in making Team Fortress 2 free is to get as many people as possible playing it online. It's the end result of months of experimenting with the price, which saw it dip as low as $2.49 at some points.
While Valve believes Team Fortress 2 will be more successful as a free product though, they caution that the same might not be true for their other games.
"It seems dangerous to assume that [free-to-play would work] for all our products," Walker said.


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