[CodeArtisan]

The move to f2p games with micro transactions was done with the help of Yanis Varoufakis, a libertarian-marxist (his own words) Greek economist and politician who once served as Greece's Minister of Finance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis

https://web.archive.org/web/20140328192036/http://blogs.valv...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140219161902/http://blogs.valv...

[1propionyl]

This is, at least to me, a very strange leap of a conclusion from the sources posted (and general awareness of Valve and TF2 and Varoufakis etc otherwise)

[whazor]

You don’t need an economist to know that micro transactions are lucrative.

[m463]

But an economist would know how to keep the money flowing.