I think its should not be free cause look what happen too TF2 when they did that. I think making it free to play will kill the game faster. But one thing I like about the update is for community servers is they added a setting ?sv_prime_accounts_only. When enabled, only prime accounts can connect to the game server. So community servers are fine if they enable this so any free to play player cant join. But problem right now the people that did not have prime and bought the game before the update now have prime, which means allot more cheaters for a few months until they decide to update VAC to detect some cheats and ban a few cheaters. But in my thought on this is Free to Play is a bad idea for a game like this.