Valve: Sony, Microsoft Looking to Charge Gamers for Team Fortress 2 Updates

[Onyxmeth]

Gnizmo said:

Onyxmeth said:

skip said:

criterion games and ingognito entertainment don't seem to have a problem giving away free game content over ps3/360.  So I call bullshit on valves part.

 

edit: add ubisoft to the able to release free content group too as they just did today with a haze mappack.

This is exactly what I was going to say. If Criterion can give us updates that actually should be paid for entirely for free, then Valve should have no trouble. They're all under the same EA label. I second bullshit on this.

 

 So what do you think they are trying to gain from this? The updates exist, and it would be trivial for the PR departments of the consoles to come out and deny trying to make them charge for the update. What is the endgame for Valve in this scenario of yours? Why wouldn't they want to update the game?

How am I supposed to know? I'm not Gabe Newell. All I know is, plenty of other publishers have gotten away with free content.

Regarding the rest of the topic, that is merely Gabe not understanding the difference between PCs and consoles. There is a pathway on consoles because there are console makers. If the PC had a dictator the same way as consoles do, it would be no different for it.

That comment he made regarding releasing four updates for a PC game in one day is exactly why Valve and other developers need to be kept in check on their console offerings.