Tuesday, June 14, 2011

New Steam Free to Play games.


Good news on Steam today. Check out the release Valve put out on their website.
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today introduced support for Free to Play (F2P) Games on Steam with the launch of five F2P games.

Available immediately, the launch titles are Spiral Knights, Forsaken Worlds, Champions Online: Free for All, Global Agenda: Free Agent, and Alliance of Valliant Arms (AVA).

Beginning tomorrow (Weds) with Spiral Knights and concluding Sunday with AVA, each of the five launch titles will offer exclusive in-game content to those who try the "F2P game of the day" on Steam. In game transactions in all of the titles will be supported by Steam's micro-transaction backend system that is available to Steamworks partners and currently used in Valve's Team Fortress 2.

"The introduction of Free to Play games is another example of the constant evolution of Steam," said Jason Holtman, director of business development at Valve. "Free to Play games offer new game genres and game experiences for customers, while offering developers and publishers new revenue opportunities and the ability to reach customers in areas of the world where the traditional packaged goods model is less popular than F2P."

Specific details on the F2P games of the day and their exclusive in-game content will be made available in the coming days.

Steam is a leading platform for PC & Mac games and digital entertainment serving over 1,500 games to over 30 million active accounts worldwide. For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com.
 If you haven't installed Steam yet, here is a great reason to. I'm installing Champions Online and  Alliance of Valiant Arms to check out. AVA looks to be pretty good. Which ones do you plan on installing? Let me know if you have played any of the games.
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23 comments:

  1. ThirtySevenJune 14, 2011 at 12:48 PM

    Steam is setting the bar so high for console gaming. I don't think I can go back. Steam FTW!

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  2. andrewJune 14, 2011 at 1:13 PM

    dude your right , dunno what they are gonna do next :)

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  3. NeonJune 14, 2011 at 1:15 PM

    That's awesome. :D

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  4. mycetismeJune 14, 2011 at 1:24 PM

    valve, that's a good enough reason for me

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  5. HashJune 14, 2011 at 1:48 PM

    Good!! +follow

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  6. BradenJune 14, 2011 at 1:58 PM

    I haven't been able to check any of these out but I would hope at least one of the five would suit my interests. I will have to check them out!

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  7. DeadJune 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM

    spiral knights, heck yeah!

    Foresaken World and Champions Online look good too.

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  8. minecraft129June 14, 2011 at 5:31 PM

    I heard global agenda was pretty good, I'm downloading it right now.

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  9. TIMMYTHEROBOTJune 14, 2011 at 5:32 PM

    cool beans - thanks for letting me know

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  10. AnonymousJune 14, 2011 at 6:39 PM

    wow I haven't been on steam for a while but now I'm going to check it out for sure now!

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  11. ryelzJune 14, 2011 at 7:05 PM

    hahaha steam does it again

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  12. CodyJune 15, 2011 at 12:49 AM

    Thanks man. I'll have to check this out.

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  13. ChaelaJune 15, 2011 at 1:02 AM

    Thanks for letting me know!
    followed

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  14. DIYgamingJune 15, 2011 at 1:20 AM

    I've already played a lot of these, but nice to see them get more advertisement

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  15. AndrewJune 15, 2011 at 1:35 AM

    Love Steam! ♥

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  16. DanielJune 15, 2011 at 2:28 AM

    thanks i didn't know of forsaken worlds
    i'll give it a try

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  17. D3N00B1F13D™June 15, 2011 at 2:31 AM

    I'm in love with Valve! Simply the best!

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  18. PocketsJune 15, 2011 at 5:50 AM

    It's about time, Steam. Spiral Knights ho!

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  19. AnonymousJune 15, 2011 at 9:22 AM

    will check one of these out when I have the time...

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  20. AmeridionJune 15, 2011 at 11:05 AM

    Sounds like a great idea, this will add so much revenue to publishers and steam itself

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  21. ShonaJune 15, 2011 at 11:48 AM

    http://spitefulbanter.blogspot.com/2011/06/600-followers.html#comments

    yay for you :D

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  22. Corb MacLarenJune 15, 2011 at 2:26 PM

    Oh steam, I heart thee. Global Agenda is quite underrated, I recommend it a lot.

    followed

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  23. AnonymousJune 15, 2011 at 4:28 PM

    love steam

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