Games Now! Lecture: Free-to-play Games – A Critical View

Currently the majority of digital game revenue comes from games that can be accessed and played for free. While embracing this free-to-play model has brought more opportunities for both game industry and playing audiences, it has also faced criticism and raised questions about fairness and ethics. Drawing from her almost ten years of research into Free-to-play games, Kati Alha´’s lecture looks into current research on the model and discusses what opportunities, problems and values are connected to it.