One year ago, during a game exchange with a friend, i have bought him a game on steam (Idle Slayer), and one month ago the game turn into a permanent F2P ...

So want to know if that thing happen to someone else, the game could be for you / for familly / for a friend / whatever ... but must have turn into a permanent F2P (100 % discount during a limited time like Titan Quest Anniversary Edition or ARK: Survival Evolved do not count)
(Also, game that steam version have been removed and a unique F2P edition have appear on Epic do not count (i think about Rocket League and Fall Guys))

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Have you ever bought a game that turn into a permanent F2P ?

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No, never.
Yes, only 1 times.
Yes, and multiples times :(

I remember 2 games, Rocket League and PUBG

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I don't count Rocket League because the steam version cost a lot now (+100$), but i feel sorry for PUBG.

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I would count Rocket League. I bought it for Ps4. Really dissapointed.

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What about csgo?

I'm assuming you have it, I can't check, you have too many games, the page doesn't want to load.

1 year ago
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What browser are you using? The page loads instantly for me on firefox.

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Yes, also pretty rude to imply that I don't know what I'm talking about.

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Well, because I use Firefox too so I'm surprised, that's weird.
After 5 minutes I closed the tab, it wasn't loading.

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That's a bummer. Could be anything at this point, then. ISP, add-ons etc.

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Do you by chance have the SteamDB extension on Firefox?
The SteamDB extension by default 'optimises' game pages to load quicker.

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CSGO too, I didn't remember I bought it 😅

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I bet there is dozens more game like that :P

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Yes, but without a ':(' emoji, a game going f2p is usually good news, more fresh meat to slay.

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What was it name... um... was fun coop but they made it unballanced and asked for too much money AND marketing made it sound like Overwatch even if it was completely different thing... oh yeah, Battleborn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwWhuGwPGp0

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Totally forget it was a paid game before ...

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I bought Fall Guys two times (for me and a friend (full price T_T ), Rocket League and Overwatch? (dont know if it counts now :P)
I saw the other reply and remember I bought Battleborn for 5€ too.

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For Fall Guys and Rocket League will say no because the steam version cost a lot now, but for Overwatch yes.

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Wait why is overwatch a yes but not fall guys and rocket league. Overwatch was never on steam, and even if you can still buy rocket league and fall guys keys at crazy prices, they're both f2p right now on epic.

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For overwatch i have say yes because now that exactly the same if you have paid or not the game (same launcher, battle.net), but for Fall Guys and Rocket League people that i have paid the game still have the posibility to choice there launcher (the Steam one).
After that only my own interpretation.

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Guild wars 2. I bought it when it came out and as a physical copy, and quit when it went F2P. The gold sellers and bots, the world chat became insanely busy. I couldn't stand it and took a break which ended up with me never coming back. I tried to log in again, but everything was so different It felt like a new game, so I left. That, and Lions Arch new look disgusted me.

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I also paid for GW2 (digital deluxe or whatever) when it first launched, and had zero disappointment about it becoming free-to-play. It's an amazing game and I'm happy that others can play the base game and LS1 for free. I had actually forgotten about the gold sellers; I haven't seen one in years.

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Was expecting more Team Fortress 2 comments.

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Goes to tell most of us came to Steam AFTER TF2 went F2P. Specially when you see the game menttioned the most is CS:GO and Rocket League.

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PUBG, but not bothered by it since I didn't even play it that much.
Bought it cause of the hype and FOMO back then, lesson learned!

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damn, I feel like we in same boat XD
played like under 10 games with friends and there went my money :P

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CSGO. Most of my playtime was spent before it went F2P though, so I can't say it was money wasted or anything.

I also got Hammerfight in one of the very early Humble Bundles. It went permanently free in 2019, but it doesn't have microtransactions or anything like that. It's a nice, unorthodox game as well, but very janky. I can recommend it for a unique experience.

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Guild Wars 2
Rocket League
Ark Survival Evolved
Battlerite...

Probably others and I could only thing of Ark, but others posting here had me realize what other games had gone F2P. Surprised to hear GW2 did...

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I thought it was, because they were releasing its sequel or something?..

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That makes more sense to me.

See others mention it here, so I assumed they weren't talking about one of the EGS freebies.

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Yep, "Evolve" (now its called - Evolve Stage 2). Bought it twice for full price: first time after I played a day of closed beta - its was like "shout up and take my money".
And the second time was like a several days later, after the devs added to Steam page of the game a complete edition (yeah, thous old good time when it really WAS complete edition with all future possible DLC): Evolve PC Monster Race Pre-Purchase. Since there was not a possibility for an upgrade of the game version, so the only way for me was to ask Steam support to delete the game from my account and to buy it again as full edition.
And I dont regret it, it was worth every cent. To bad the publisher ruined the game later with too strict rules for devs with adding patches like only 1 time per 3-6 mounths (at least as i heard it was like that).

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I still play Evolve. (you have old Evolve, known as Legacy Evolve and the newer Evolve Stage 2, both versions are separate but playable)

Join Evolve Reunited Discord Server if interested.

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Fall Guys, Team Fortress 2, Postal and Awesomenauts are some paid to FTP games I know of having before they went free. I am perfectly fine with the change to free, except for Fall Guys. It should have started out free to play, because all the microtransactions make it a mess.

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Crusader Kings 2

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Yup. Although all that dang DLC never become free!

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and the DLCs are too much expensive

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Mimpi Dreams is a cute and inexpensive game. I bought it, and then this part became free. By the way, I recommend playing it 😊

Well, there was also a funny case on the SG - I won the Go Go Nippon game, and a week later it was distributed for free ^^

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I honestly never thought CS-GO would go F2P, It's one of those must have games on Steam.

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they made it free so more people will play it and spend money on knives and boxes or whatever it is you can buy on there, idk i've never played it. it's basically free money. same with tf2 keys and its giant market. that's why the f2p model can be so lucrative.

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This just reminded that the person who owned Tremorgames had around 150000 TF2 keys when he shut the site down

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Not exactly "bought", but back when I used to play The Lord of the Rings Online, it switched from a subscription model to a free to play model about a year or so after I started playing it. Guild Wars 2 was not free to play when I quit, but it did go free to play later and I did buy it at full price, one of the more expensive versions at that.

In recent years/Steam games, no. I haven't bought any Steam games that went free.

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Destiny 2 (Battle.net - Steam)
Rocket League (Steam)
Rocket League (PS4)
Rocket League (Nintendo Switch)
Fall Guys (Steam)

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I think one of them was Defiance, and another one was Wildstar (it even had subscription... the servers closed years ago); I got for both physical collector editions at that time...

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Team Fortress 2 and Awesomenauts. (Maybe others? I dunno, I don't keep track of these stuff... would have forgotten TF2 if Blando didn't mention it.)

I don't really care. ^_^

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Oh wow I assumed team fortress 2 was always free thats insane. Just searched it up went from 50 to 20 to free. I wasn't even pc gaming until like 4 years later so no wonder I never knew

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It was the main reason I made a Steam account in the first place (cough "cracking" TF2 needed a Steam account, though it was kind of a bogus crack cough). And then the Orange Box (TF2, Portal and all of Half-Life 2) was the first thing I actually bought on Steam (about two and half years later... ^_^' ).

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Oh damn my 1st 2 games were lucius. I had a disc cuz I didn't know about steam until I brought it and it asked me to activate the steam code. I could not find that code until a year later when throwing it away and there it was as clear as day

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Crusader Kings 2, Destiny 2, Guild Wars 2, CS:GO, Awesomenauts, Rocket League, Dirty Bomb.

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Rocket League, Fall Guys, CS:GO, PUBG, GuildWars2, Overwatch, Destiny 2 that i got free when purchased my PC... I'm sure i'm missing lot more.

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It happened for Republique and Overwatch

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Yes, multiples times.
Rocket League, CS:GO, Overwatch, Destiny 2, Crusader Kings 2, Awesomenauts and Postal are the ones that pop up in my mind without to think long or to search in my library.
I assume there were much more.

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Death Skid Marks, CSGO, Rocket League, Crusader Kings 2 from the ones I remember. Probably a few more that I don't remember.

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