{"id":7891,"date":"2010-09-28T08:27:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T15:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7891"},"modified":"2018-08-02T21:49:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T21:49:17","slug":"tf-2-gets-virtual-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/tf-2-gets-virtual-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Fortress 2 Gets Virtual Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9727\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/teamfortress2-S.jpg\" alt=\"TF2-EApcSLP03\" width=\"285\" height=\"400\" \/>SEPT. 28, 2010 \u2022 Virtual item sales were added to Team Fortress 2 in an update by Valve Inc.\u00a0 The 17 unlockable items can be purchased from 49 cents to $4.99, and were created by players. A percentage of each sale will be split with these item creators. Players who don&#8217;t want to pay for the new gear can unlock them for free in-game, but there is no easy way to do so. Valve also introduced item trading to the game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: In the new DFC report, Virtual Property and Real Money Trade: A Business and Legal Survey, we take a look at the issue of companies taking a cut of virtual item sales.\u00a0 Our overall conclusion is that, while this could be a nice ancillary revenue stream, it probably isn&#8217;t worth the hassle for a publisher to try and handle player-to-player trading themselves.\u00a0 Instead there are services like the Live Gamer Exchange that will handle player-to-player trading in games.\u00a0 Of course, Valve, with its expertise in digital distribution and basically acting as a distributor, may be a major exception to our rule.\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEPT. 28, 2010 \u2022 Virtual item sales were added to Team Fortress 2 in an update by Valve Inc.\u00a0 The 17 unlockable items can be purchased from 49 cents to $4.99, and were created by players. A percentage of each sale will be split with these item creators. Players who don&#8217;t want to pay for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137,78,66],"tags":[388,88,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16750,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions\/16750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}