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Posted February 26, 2011
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KavazovAngel: Man, you need to relax a little more. No, the FBI will not come at your house. I don't understand why some western folks are so scared of the government these days.
But the Feds say "I'm coming for your Mama" ;)
Posted February 26, 2011
There are a lot of mods going around but a lot of game developers actually encourage it by including level editors in their software.

If anything it just keeps old fads alive and makes it easier for game developers to release new additions to their franchise while the franchise is still familiar.

Plus there's more of a creative pool for developers to pull from.

If you're releasing something nobody cares about you actually have to go out of your way to hire play testers and get innovative input from the actual players.

In these situations these kids are doing all the footwork for them proactively and free of charge.
Posted February 26, 2011
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Roberttitus: Well its not just that.... there were fan games & such there as well. I was under the impression that fangames were illegal (I'm talking blatent Mario ripoffs here & Nintendo is known to be insanely protective of there IPs).
Actually, they seem to turn a blind eye to a lot of stuff if it's free and not pretending to be official.
Posted February 26, 2011
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KavazovAngel: Man, you need to relax a little more. No, the FBI will not come at your house. I don't understand why some western folks are so scared of the government these days.
Both government elements as well as the large media conglomerates have had their propaganda machines working overtime the past few years on IP-related issues. It's a bit sad to see how much they've managed to influence some people.
Posted February 26, 2011
The only thing of questionable morality about it is that it's owned by Rupert Murdock.
Posted February 26, 2011
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carnival73: I think there are some politicians out there pushing for retroactive justice where in they can come put the slam down people for crimes before they were officially made 100% crimes.
While you are correct there, that is actually specifically forbidden in the U.S. Constitution. "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."--Article 1, Section 9. In a separate place, States are likewise forbidden to do the same thing, making it one of the very few things forbidden to both States and the Federal government. Doesn't stop the politicians from trying to do it anyway.
Posted February 26, 2011
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domgrief: Given that the filename is "crocdem6.exe", and that the path is shown as "Home / Gaming / Adventure / Croc: Legend of Gobbos / Demos", I'm pretty sure that'll be a demo :)
Y'know..... I never noticed that....

I think I should note the entire reason that I made this thread now.

I read on wikipedia's free game article thingy that this game was no longer being distributed as freeware since it's copyright changed hands.... yet here it is.... still free.

[url=http://www.fileplanet.com/216672/210000/fileinfo/Area-51-(Free-Game]http://www.fileplanet.com/216672/210000/fileinfo/Area-51-(Free-Game[/url])
Post edited February 26, 2011 by Roberttitus
Posted February 26, 2011
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carnival73: I think there are some politicians out there pushing for retroactive justice where in they can come put the slam down people for crimes before they were officially made 100% crimes.
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catwhowalks: While you are correct there, that is actually specifically forbidden in the U.S. Constitution. "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."--Article 1, Section 9. In a separate place, States are likewise forbidden to do the same thing, making it one of the very few things forbidden to both States and the Federal government. Doesn't stop the politicians from trying to do it anyway.
I think it's pretty dirty but there's nothing stopping it in other countries - I'm no longer in the US.
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domgrief: Given that the filename is "crocdem6.exe", and that the path is shown as "Home / Gaming / Adventure / Croc: Legend of Gobbos / Demos", I'm pretty sure that'll be a demo :)
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Roberttitus: Y'know..... I never noticed that....

I think I should note the entire reason that I made this thread now.

I read on wikipedia's free game article thingy that this game was no longer being distributed as freeware since it's copyright changed hands.... yet here it is.... still free.

[url=http://www.fileplanet.com/216672/210000/fileinfo/Area-51-(Free-Game]http://www.fileplanet.com/216672/210000/fileinfo/Area-51-(Free-Game[/url])
That's Midway's. They're the ones whom are ad-supporting some of their games now. You can also get PSI-Ops The MindGate Conspiracy and Rise & Fall free but you're going to get pestered with ads.
Post edited February 26, 2011 by carnival73
Posted February 26, 2011
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carnival73: That's Midway's. They're the ones whom are ad-supporting some of their games now. You can also get PSI-Ops The MindGate Conspiracy and Rise & Fall free but you're going to get pestered with ads.
Thats what I'm talking about.... after Midway went out of business they sold the rights off & the owner of the rights supposedly said that it was to no longer be distributed as freeware.
Now if somebody could only point me to a WORKING PSI-Ops fileplanet link...
Posted February 26, 2011
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carnival73: That's Midway's. They're the ones whom are ad-supporting some of their games now. You can also get PSI-Ops The MindGate Conspiracy and Rise & Fall free but you're going to get pestered with ads.
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Roberttitus: Thats what I'm talking about.... after Midway went out of business they sold the rights off & the owner of the rights supposedly said that it was to no longer be distributed as freeware.
Now if somebody could only point me to a WORKING PSI-Ops fileplanet link...
Not sure about Fileplanet but it looks like Psi-Ops has been completely pulled from Big Downloads. BD still has Area 51 and Rise & Fall though.
Posted February 26, 2011
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Roberttitus: Thats what I'm talking about.... after Midway went out of business they sold the rights off & the owner of the rights supposedly said that it was to no longer be distributed as freeware.
Now if somebody could only point me to a WORKING PSI-Ops fileplanet link...
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carnival73: Not sure about Fileplanet but it looks like Psi-Ops has been completely pulled from Big Downloads. BD still has Area 51 and Rise & Fall though.
I might pick them up then... hell if they are legal, then why not?
Posted February 26, 2011
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carnival73: As for Fileplanet - they're like BIg Download the game says 'free' but after you spent half a day pulling it down it's either

A: Just the multi-player part of it to encourage more players to join.
B. They blatantly lied and it's a friggin' demo.
C. It's ad driven and you get slapped with a Tampon ad right in the middle of a boss battle.
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Roberttitus: I kinda got that impression

For example
[url=http://www.fileplanet.com/10617/10000/fileinfo/Croc:-Legend-of-Gobbos]http://www.fileplanet.com/10617/10000/fileinfo/Croc:-Legend-of-Gobbos[/url]

I'm almost certain that the full game was not 16MB.... I could be wrong though. I'm thinking of downloading it to see, but I'm still not 100% on the legality. I believe the most of you and all, I'm just a bit iffy because of the things like what you said about Pirate Bay.
Sorry to hijack the thread but that Croc game gave me a nostlagia rush. I need to go dig out my copy now :S.
Posted February 26, 2011
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Whiteblade999: Sorry to hijack the thread but that Croc game gave me a nostlagia rush. I need to go dig out my copy now :S.
I never played it, but was strongly considering downloading it if it was legal.... & apparantly not a demo////
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