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Steam To Support Free-To-Play Games

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by Adam Biessener on June 14, 2011 at 02:31 PM

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Tomorrow will mark the launch of the first free-to-play game on Steam, Valve's digital delivery platform. The service, which dominates digital retail for PC games, has supported microtransactions (Team Fortress 2's famous hats, for example) for some time but had yet to partner up with any fully free-to-play titles. Five titles to launch over the next week will change that for good.

The five games – each of which will offer exclusive content to players who try them out on the day of their Steam launch – are among the upper tier of free-to-play titles currently on the market, and range from full-on MMORPGs to session-based competitive shooters:

Spiral Knights
Forsaken World
Champions Online
Global Agenda
Alliance of Valiant Arms

Valve will never tell, but you have to wonder how big of a cut it is taking on the microtransactions. The game publishers obviously feel like getting access to Steam's reach is worth whatever the terms of the deal are.

[via the official Steam blog]

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Filed under: News, Valve, PC, steam, Free-to-Play, microtransactions, Champions Online, Global Agenda, alliance of valiant arms, spiral knights, forsaken world

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by Binghammer Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 02:35 PM

I like this very much.
by 4dyce Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 02:44 PM

Lets face it no one is going to be as big as steam in terms on digital delivery of games! <3 Steam!
by shooterboy23 (⌐■_■) Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 02:47 PM

i feel so stupid for thinking half life was gonna be on the list.cant find that oranfe box anywhere and i hate ordering stuff online.
by gabe Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 02:47 PM

Im pretty sure Gabe Newell is Santa Claus with a shave and dye job. The wonders of steam never end!
by Rothen Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 02:48 PM

Hat Fortress 2! Anyways it will be cool to try out some of these. I love trying to get to max level in Free to Play games without buying anything using real money.
by Evil Deej Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 02:50 PM

I love Valve, Steam, and Newell....i only wish my rig were better so i could run better games.
by Him Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 02:53 PM

Oh, yes! Digitally downloaded games for free... I like the sound of this. I just hope the microtransactions in these games don't pester us too much, otherwise bye-bye.
by XxQuickKillaxX Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 02:55 PM

ah i think you guys mean today cause im already downloading some of these games as we speak lol
by eyros2k Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 02:59 PM

The only F2P title I intend to investigate at all (probably EVER)is the revitalization of Hellgate London...
by Packerfan 2.0 Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 03:11 PM

Micro$oft and $ony would die if they released anything decent for free. Great move steam.
by Tyler Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 03:28 PM

League of Legends should join the fold! :D
by Ace Karsh Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 03:37 PM

Just downloaded Spiral Knights, hopefully I can try it sometime later with my brother.
by Moon Knight Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 03:49 PM

Do I get a hat for already having an account for one of the games?
by Boyzby Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 03:55 PM

The question I'm wondering is if the exclusive content is payed for, which it likely is and making me less enthused to wait for the download on day 1.

I have, however, downloaded Spiral Knights and in the process of getting Global Agenda because I know the people on my Steam list will play those.
by Dimok Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 04:05 PM

I dislike having to be logged into steam just to play games. What happens when steam gets hacked, pretty sure you cant play your single player games. I might have to do yardwork in that situation..thank god I rarely use steam to purchase/play games.
by JakeDaGr8 Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 04:14 PM

seeing this makes me wonder if steam will get hacked. theyre a massive company though idk if hackers would attack them..
by Nate77 Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 04:15 PM

Nice!!
by Dusknight6 Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 04:25 PM

This is great!
by Blake Eaton Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 04:35 PM

This seems cool. I may have to check them out tomorrow.
by AomiArmster Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 04:48 PM

Well... my curiosity has spiked. Definitely will be checking these out.