Widescreen Gaming Forum

When the hell did "FREE" become "PAY MONEY"?

You just realized this? This particular scam dates back at least to P.T. Barnum. Surely you must have heard of Columbia Record Club, or cereal box tops, or one of the bazillion "free reward" companies that popped up and vanished within the past decade.

It's the first time I've seen it for PC games, outside of spam and phishing attempts.

I want F1 2010, but now I might think again...

At this rate, it won't be long before the only damned games I buy are indie ones, as all the big publishers seem to be on a mission to get me to boycott them at the minute.

[quote]I make sure to have backup copies of all my GOG purchases, just in case. I don't trust them to be around or offering the same wares in a few years like I do Steam or other such services.

Yeah I do the same with my GOG library. I'm hoping GOG will be around for a long time. The fact that they landed Activision on their service I take as a good sign. If they are able to get EA or Lucasarts or both then I would see that as an indication of a very healthy business. Fingers crossed....

Landing Activision and a second round of Ubisoft products tells me they definitely make a profit for the publishers, so it encourages me as well. I am a box collector now-a-days and want these games in their boxed versions, but for $5.99 with no DRM and updated installers and such it is nice to get the GOG version, burn it to a CD and then put it in my old box for safe keeping. Steam has no such temptation.

Liars ?
Register any of these games and you will really get a FREE cheat/unlock. (A totally dispensable one of course, in a list of much more exciting codes that you can... buy.)

So they're basically trying to strip games of part of their content and sell it. For Codies, cheats are "DLC"...

Codemasters are publishers, and publishers are low-down rats. Simple as that :?

*sigh*

They have a button saying "FREE CHEATS"... which takes you to a page which demands money. To my mind, that is saying one thing then doing another... or forcing you to.

Oh, forget it.

I agree Paradigm Shifter
they are not the only business doing that though ...