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Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun free to download
- CoryMathews 17y agoI wish they would do this with more games. Give it something like a window after so many years (5/7/10 w/e) then just release them as free. They have made all the money they are going to from it.
- mrduncan 17y agoI suspect that it's mostly an issue of money. Releasing a game, even for free download, costs money in the form of staff, servers, bandwidth, etc.
- presidentender 17y agoIf there's DRM involved, the conversion from disc to bare .exe would have a minimal cost involved, I suppose. But releasing your game as a torrent would erase the cost of servers and bandwidth. EDIT: MechCommander was released as a torrent. Microsoft (you know, that Microsoft) owns the IP.
- klipt 17y agoBut releasing your game as a torrent would erase the cost of servers and bandwidth. A game via torrent? It's probably already been "released" for them...
- daveungerer 17y agoThey only get the promotional benefits if they create an official release.
- rogermugs 17y agoor if some idiot out there finally figures out how to monetize torrent... even an included movie ad or something... or a modified game that shows a boot screen with an advert would be completely acceptable to me.
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- Batsu 17y agoNot to mention with the advent of digital distributors such as Steam, making an ancient game available for $2 still draws in a couple buyers every now and then without any marketing or much effort. In fact, Commander Keen, a game that was released by iD Software 20 years ago, is available on steam right now for $5. Naturally, there should be some drop off point in sales where the PR becomes more worthwhile than the couple bucks.
- johkra 17y agoI personally like Good Old Games (gog.com), a store for DRM-free and compatibility tested old games. I bought quite some games which are running perfectly well on my notebook with integrated graphics. And since the prices are low enough and I want to encourage this behaviour (DRM-free, tested), I happily pay the publisher of these old games.
- pmjordan 17y agoI suspect they haven't fixed the requirement of IPX (!) for LAN play in this version, which seems to be the primary stumbling block for multiplayer in older C&C games (up to RA2) on modern computers. I suppose now you can just all play via the internet instead, without having to make sure you've got enough serial numbers.
- _delirium 17y agoIt doesn't help with these old Windows games, but DOSBox provides virtual IPX-over-IP emulation so LAN play works on old DOS games. I wonder if there's a way to do something similar for Windows games?
- roschdal 17y agoGreat game. If only they could release the game under a GPL license as well. That would be a great way for open source developers who want to learn from the code, and possibly improve the original game.
- dantheman 17y agoThen they won't be able to port it to new platforms and sell it again.
- dmaz 17y agoJohn Carmack did just this with Wolfenstein on the iPhone.
- ido 17y agoAre you comparing Id to EA? Totally different corporate cultures.
- euccastro 17y agoNo, he's not. He's saying that if id did it it can be legally done.
- racy_rick 17y agoI'm sure it is a licensing issue. If they had agreements for the models or the sound files they'd have to pay those people. I think doom was released without the original sound files. Perhaps that was quake.
- pmjordan 17y agoI very much doubt that. Generally, either the publisher or (sometimes) the developer owns it all. In the case of EA, those entities are the same. I can't see EA open-sourcing anything, ever, though.
- wenbert 17y agoThis is nice. I remember this game. I got interested into hacking and the web development because of this game! I remember that for CnC games, you could just edit the .ini file and you could basically change everything in the game. I ran a small fansite called Tiberian Sun Oracle -- back in the days, most people submit their sites to Yahoo Directories, etc. I also remember RADen, Battleground TS. I also remember using Newspro (later renamed Coranto) for the news management. Good old days. The game was still under Westwood back then.
- kajecounterhack 17y agoYeah, CNC 3 was a pretty decent game but since it was made by EA, all the units were like the same between the 3 civilizations. Anyway for Tiberian Sun, yeah the ini editor was the best!! I remember there was this thing, SunEdit2k or something like that, where you could create your own units or modify the stats of other units
- petercooper 17y agoYou could edit INI files for all of the 2D C&Cs and even the sorta-predecessor Dune 2 :-) For our multiplayer games we used to crank the buildings and units to produce almost instantly!
- wenbert 17y agoFYI, if you remember, that chatroom for RA2 was in webchat.com #ra2 People like ASFM, Mr. President, others still go to that room.
- amohr 17y agoAw this just brings back traumatic memories of the day I found out Westwood was acquired by EA.
- abyssknight 17y agoThey're doing this so people have something to play until C&C 4 comes out (unless you're in the beta). Of course, this game is absolutely nothing like C&C 4. In fact, C&C 4 will probably be the worst selling game in the franchise's history. I cancelled my preorder after playing the beta. It's just not the same game anymore. edit: Weird, I guess someone didn't like my opinion. That's fine, but at least leave me some feedback so I can make sure I don't do it again. :)
- bugs 17y agoI think the same thing happened with dawn of war 2 the game got such horrible reviews from fans of the old series (which I liked) so I never purchased it.
- houseabsolute 17y agoI liked some aspects of 3, although it didn't really feel like the same game. I watched a couple of multiplayer replays and the way people mass units in this game makes Starcraft look like Warcraft 3 by comparison.
- coryl 17y agoI never really got into the CC franchise. Was always more of a Warcraft/Starcraft guy.
- joeycfan 17y agoAnybody got this sucker rolling under WINE?
- rogermugs 17y agonow if only i hadn't switched to mac about 5 years ago...
- rogermugs 17y agop.s. C&C original was my intro to RTS and led to a 3 year serious addiction to starcraft.... glad those days are behind me... but secretly miss them somehow too.
- kentosi 17y agowow i thought i was the only one. yes i'm glad that my starcraft addiction is well and truly behind me, and that warcraft III "just didn't do it" for me. i am however, secretly anticipating starcraft 2, and at the same time somewhat glad that it hasn't gone anywhere in the last god-knows-how-many years.
- mrinterweb 17y agoInstall wine with macports and you should be good. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=176 http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application...