Yes, the news is that Volvo's once unique Dive and Lift Control will be free from Valve, drastically impacting the Swedish automaker's sales and signaling Valve's entry into the heady car manufacturing market:
Valve has told Eurogamer that it has no intention of charging customers who download additional content for games like Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2, despite the widely spread increase of paid-for updates in the PC and console world.Oh right. Anyway, this makes for an interesting sidebar to the current debate over the late Black Box and in-game ads, and speaking of new content I'd like to see an official de_vertigo source sometime this year. Read the full article at Eurogamer here.
Valve's marketing director Doug Lombardi admitted the company had "pretty strong opinions" about how to handle post-release content. "Our philosophy there is, if you buy the product, we put more content out to keep the game interesting, we sell more products."
"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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