This drives you to build new content to attract new people," Ludwig said, "There's a fundamental tension between building the game to satisfy existing players and attract new players." "The trouble is, when you're a AAA box game, the only people who can earn you new revenue are the people who haven't bought your game. However, Valve soon found that the business model for a triple-A boxed game didn't quite mesh with their development strategy. "Adding so much stuff at once gave the press and community a reason to talk about it, which got more people to try it for the first time." "Although small updates to the game started immediately after launch, it wasn't until the medic update in 2008 that significantly changed revenue," Ludwig said. Valve's Joe Ludwig ran a GDC session Wednesday that explained exactly how four years' worth of content updates, tweaks, and community engagement helped Valve transition TF2 from a triple-A boxed title to a free-to-play game built around microtransactions.īuilding large updates with additional content was key to maintaining player interest and expanding the player base. And this means we are free to experiment with any kind of different features, despite how complex they are to implement.”Įlsewhere in gaming, Rockstar is reportedly working on a remastered trilogy for GTA.In June of 2011, Valve Software took its four-year-old online first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 and made it completely free-to-play - and ended up increasing revenues by a factor of twelve as a result. “Getting Team Fortress 2 to work on Source 2 breaks that barrier completely we have full control over the entire code. “A lot of us have been in the Team Fortress 2 modding scene for a very long time, and throughout all this time, we’ve been very limited in terms of what we can and can’t do in Source,” he added. And the goal of the project is to show that.”
In short, Team Fortress 2 on Source 2 would run much better than Team Fortress 2 on Source, while still preserving all the visual improvements of Source 2.
Which, in general means drastically improved performance with better visuals. “Redoing everything from scratch, in our case, means redesigning the aforementioned poor decisions in a more optimized way. “Migrating to a completely new engine means redoing everything from scratch,” the project’s lead programmer Daniel Basiuc-Brinzei told Kotaku. The original game launched almost a decade and a half ago utilizing Valve‘s Source engine, but the system is unsurprisingly showing signs of age and so Amper decided t0 rebuild the title on the yet-to-be-released Source 2 engine, promising enhanced visuals paired with much better performance.
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