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Re:Team Fortress 2 now free forever by InclinedPlane on Friday June 24, 2011 @02:20AM (#2691239)
Valve doesn't need to provide server infrastructure, individuals do that. They only provide the front-end for server searches. The only thing they need to continue to fund is ongoing development.

Also, yes, they can fund continued development solely on the hat-conomy, as crazy as that sounds.

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Re:Team Fortress 2 now free forever by __mark on Friday June 24, 2011 @10:13AM (#2692271)
Actually, it would seem valve has actually started hosting vanilla servers, which is great for new players.
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Re:Team Fortress 2 now free forever by JL2010 on Friday June 24, 2011 @01:43PM (#2693102)
I think what the OP meant was paying for their content distribution servers, not game servers.
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Re:Team Fortress 2 now free forever by InclinedPlane on Friday June 24, 2011 @03:28PM (#2693544)
That infrastructure is amortized over all steam titles though, so effectively very tiny for TF2.
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