Steam now offering F2P MMOs

In my humble opinion, this is a great move. One of the big deterrents to trying out many of the F2P games is downloading whatever installer they're using and then waiting forever for it to incrementally update and patch. The other big one is creating an account for reach service...I'm not sure yet whether my Steam account will link in or if I'll still need to do that.

The only potential problem is that Steam and Valve could become like Kindle and Amazon at some point down the road -- a huge, great online store, but one that the company has complete control over and uses to either keep profits of other publishers/creators down, or else keep out competition altogether. I haven't heard anything to suggest Steam/Valve moving in that direction yet, however.

Eh, Steam has been offering Global Agenda since its release I believe, so technically Global Agenda has "been at the party" for a while now, with Forsaken World and Spiral Knights arriving a little late

This is a good move, in my opinion! Just imagine how many players out there, who visit Steam everyday and don't play mmorpgs.....and then they see the "Free To Play" banner. A little thing like that, can do something great!

I'll care when MMOs are on Onlive and I can play MMOs that look awesome on even the crappiest computer.

My understanding is you can now use cash in your steam wallet to buy things in these games cash shops, a pretty large thing for a lot of these games, it will do them wonders though I'm sure

Just when I thought Valve couldn't make me love Steam anymore than I already do, they pull this.

I think I'm in love.

This is very, very cool.

Awesome! Now just waiting on Valve's DOTA and a Valve made MMO! Make it happen, Gabe. You know you wanna!

Best move they could make in my opinion. If Turbine were to hop on board too it would be even better.

Awesome news.

With an existing relationship with Funcom, we can hopefully expect to see AoC on there this summer once unrated launches.