Free Tribes 1 and 2 Downloads, DVD Forthcoming

PoopShipDestroyer writes "In celebration for their upcoming game, Tribes: Vengence, Vivendi Universal Games is distributing the videogames Starsiege: Tribes and Tribes 2 for free via FilePlanet.com on May 4th, and also on a special-edition DVD-ROM bundled with the newsstand edition of the June issue of Computer Gaming World magazine. The price is certainly right."

Comments

Free not Free Enough

[jvmatthe]

To Vivendi and all the other publishers giving away older games for free, let me say thanks but no thanks. I appreciate the price you're offering, but I'd like to offer my humble feelings on the matter: This free is not Free enough.. Read that article to see what I mean.

In short, a better option for everyone (publisher, developer, game players) is to make games available at the source level. The effect is that the game will live forever, far beyond the original's limitations, as it is updated and modernized and built for newer, more capable systems. Furthermore, the game data itself, in the form of cheap CDs, could be sold by the publisher for an ongoing revenue stream.

Just something I'd like more game companies to consider.

Re:Free not Free Enough

[jvmatthe]

Because it's a point I feel strongly about. Should I cease to voice my view, just because the discussion comes up again, even in a different context? No, not at all. In fact, since game companies are making what appears to be a poor choice over and over, I think that makes it more important that I voice my opinion.

Frankly, this isn't the game company caring about the fans. This is drumming up interest in an upcoming game, plain and simple. It's just that some companies are better at portraying their craven stunts as good acts than others, while some don't even bother with the stunts in the first place. To VU, the fans are nothing more than money-generating aphids.

Werd!

[Lord Kano]

Now I don't feel so bad about warezing Tribes and buying Tribes 2 at a flea market for $2.00

Seriously, I think that Tribes was meant to be warezed. It was a multiplayer only game that had a small footprint, the CD wasn't required to play, and there was no CD key copy protection.

LK