Half-Life 2: The Orange Box (Xbox 360)Valve: we won't charge for downloadable contentGamesindustry - May 21, 2007
Submitted by welshbloke (60)
at 8:19AM PST on May 22, 2007
"Counter-Strike is number one and has been since '99 because we kept the game interesting, not because we tried to charge people more, and that's come back in sales of Counter-Strike," he added.
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Gears did say they would not charge but MS poo pooed that but at least they still only do time related charging.
I guess this is another reason why Valve are proud to be independent.