Free Stuff: Air Force Drops Bombs on Gamers

I think this is a good idea if done right. I mean pirates will pirate no matter what but some people who pirate today are just too poor to pay. If the ads weren't too intrusive I'll bet a lot of people would do this. The great thing for the company is that instead of selling the game and never seeing more moeny, as long as a people are still playing your ad-supported games you still get paid by advertisers!

I think the smart companies will begin more offerings like this, as broadband penetration goes up more people are able to direct download a game and then if you pay nothing you get to play if you look at the ads, or you can pay a small amount, like 50 cents or $1 for 1 day of ad free play or you can pay them $20-30 and you own the game. Alternatively you could go to the store and pay $49.99 and get the box with really nice color manual, beautiful disc holder, and a few extras thrown in, collectable kind of stuff or in-game weapons or pets or whatever.

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Companies could make a lot more money that way and get around some of the piracy.

You guys remember the original, now laughable, FMV lightgun Area 51 from the 90's?

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I don't recall why Area 51 would have been rated M (been a few years), but I wonder if the game was cleaned up to T-rated levels.  I only remember you killing aliens and mutant things.  However, David Ducovney (sp?) from the X-Files is in this game...and he is the most lifeless, zombie actor money could buy.

I know that the USAF also sponsored the free release of Full Specturm Warrior, so why isn't that there. As for Area 51 and what that has to do with the USAF, a simple google search of the term "area 51" or "groom lake" would easily tell you why it's related. The suffering though, that i'm not sure why thats there, maybe the gore to make sure you can handle it, but rise and fall i guess because its about war.

oh and JT has already lost his ability to practice law, i wonder what the USAF would do about him speaking up about this, probably something involving use of force and a specops team, or a CIA rendition team.

So the government is distributing Violent Games, for free, to anyone without age verification....

Holy Shit. JT Get's to sue the government this time!

 I've been playing The Suffering (and watching ads every 2 minutes) for a couple mounths now.  Yay for free stuff.

No Call of Duty 4? Not worth it.

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I don't care if there are ads, I'm thankful for free games.

EDIT: Hey, Area 51 is rated M, why aren't people complaining about kids getting access to M rated games?  LOL!

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Wasn't The Suffering already available free, ad-supported?

Anyway, seeing if I can install Area-51 (I'm British - let's see them make me join the USAF!)

And soon begins the bitchfest over them doing this.

Sweetness. Im downloading Area 51 and Rise and fall at 1.5 Mb/s. Thank you college.