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Companies Offer AAA Games For 'Free'

Posted by Zonk on from the depends-on-your-definition-of-free dept.

Both Ubisoft and EA are offering up free games to cash-conscious gamers this week. For the low, low cost of nothing you can play titles like Command and Conquer Gold, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and Far Cry. The catch? Well, EA's offering is totally gratis; 1995's C&C Gold is a gift to gamers for supporting the series for all these years. The Ubisoft games, though, are only "free". They're available from Fileplanet in ad-supported format.

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  1. Re:First... by riffzifnab · · Score: 2, Funny
    Curse my lust for first postage. from tfa

    We are providing the original Command & Conquer Gold as a free download, compatible for Windows XP! Internet: Lots
    Me: -1
  2. Boo ads by Cervantes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Take a game that's already made it's money back, and probably sells all of 2 copies a month, but hey, let's make some more money from it! Always with the string attached. Dang money-grubbing companies. *sigh* I tell ya, as far as I can recall, there hasn't been a game released without strings since Guitar Hero.

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    1. Re:Boo ads by QMalcolm · · Score: 4, Funny

      'Guitar Hero' with strings would end up just being 'Guitar', I reckon.

    2. Re:Boo ads by Cervantes · · Score: 4, Funny

      Joke:   ->
      You:     O
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  3. Re:Games with subscriptions should be free. by MikeFM · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just stopped playing those games anyway. None of them was really any fun and I got sick of seeing real life friends refusing to go do real life things because they had to camp and wait (for hours!) for the magic penis stretcher to reappear so they could continue on their quest.

    Still, I think they should just roll the development costs into what is covered by subscriptions. I'd be more likely to try more of the games if I could do it without having to buy anything.

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  4. Re:Rockstar by mazarin5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why couldn't they have followed Rockstar's lead and just released the damn game without any strings? It sure as hell would have simplified localization!
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  5. Yeah, but which AAA games? by RoverDaddy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did they release any of my favorites, like TripTik Hunter IV, Roadside Assist - The Awakening, or Extreme Traveler's Check Speed Signing?

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