Microsoft and Sony determine Team Fortress 2 DLC pricing

Valve may want their downloadable content for Team Fortress 2 on the PS3 and Xbox 360 to be free, but it seems they aren’t the final arbiter for how their content gets priced. Kotaku reports that it actually happens to be Microsoft and Sony who get to do the pricing in this case. More on this after the jump!

Well, we can be sure that new maps will be coming to Team Fortress 2 for the PS3 and Xbox 360. Valve even wants the said downloadable content to be free, but admitted that such might not be the case. The reason for this was recently uncovered over at Kotaku, and it’s quite surprising to know that Valve doesn’t have power over the pricing of their DLC.

Kotaku contacted Valve for clarification regarding this matter, and Doug Lombardi, Valve’s VP of Marketing said, “The platform holder owns the final call.” As Kotaku put it succinctly, “whether or not we see these maps for free is indeed up to Sony and Microsoft.”

Personally, we’re left wondering what kinds of DLC may have, in the past, been released for free, were it not for the policies of Sony and Microsoft. While we can’t change the past, perhaps this knowledge might make it possible for gamers to properly ask for better prices on downloadable content.

Via Kotaku