{"id":4071,"date":"2011-06-24T09:18:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2011-06-24T09:18:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:18:31","slug":"team-fortress-2-goes-free-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/team-fortress-2-goes-free-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Fortress 2 Goes Free To Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/files.g4tv.com\/ImageDb3\/184951_S\/soldiers-battle-demomen-for-bonus-weapon-in-team-fortress-2-kill-off.jpg\" alt=\"Soldiers Battle Demomen For Bonus Weapon In Team Fortress 2 Kill-Off\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Team Fortress 2<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/games\/pc\/9458\/team-fortress-2\/\"> <\/a>has gone free-to-play. The full <em>TF2 <\/em>on  the PC and Mac can now be downloaded for zero dollars and zero cents.  &#8220;But how will Valve make money?&#8221; you ask. You won&#8217;t see in-game  ads and you won&#8217;t be prompted to subscribe. Valve will be taking advantage  of microtransactions to generate revenue, in fact the idea of making  the game free began as soon as they released the Mann-conomy update  which added the\u00a0<em>Team Fortress 2<\/em> store.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone gonna play this game now? I might go download it since I&#8217;ve never played it.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/thefeed\/blog\/post\/713959\/team-fortress-2-goes-free-to-play-tf2-for-everyone\/#ixzz1QCOfoMWV\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Fortress 2 has gone free-to-play. The full TF2 on the PC and Mac can now be downloaded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4072,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions\/4072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}