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PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] logan_hero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

3/5 games from that list also launched as paid games, but gained majority of its players after becoming f2p. Yeah people love free stuff ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

[–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Which ones ? Apart from CSGO, the others have always been free (on the technicality that Fortnite BR is different from the original game)

[–] logan_hero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

CS was paid, Dota and Fortnite had "early access" packs before being released. Yeah fortnite is the odd one out here with keeping early access stuff to seperate gamemode and still costing money, but was originally planned to transition to f2p.