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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 1 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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