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You can now snag Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger for free as part of Origin's "On the House" program.
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The Internet told me to hate Origin. Therefore, I refuse to play any Origin game.
I don't, but I do remember Nobody Beats The Wiz as being awesome.Also, does anyone else remember WC3 being referred to as "Eye of the Tiger" early on? I seem to recall seeing prelease boxes at Nobody Beats The Wiz with that title.
Wing Commander III's software and IP trademarks have expired?Oh neat they're finally releasing a 20 year old game to the public for free!
Note: This is not a knock on Origin's system, but more a knock on how ridiculously long IP laws last for software.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Free is still too high of a price to pay if it means having to use Origin.
haters gonna hate.
i have never had an issue with origin and they keep throwing free games at me.
Oh neat they're finally releasing a 20 year old game to the public for free!
Note: This is not a knock on Origin's system, but more a knock on how ridiculously long IP laws last for software. I mean the minimum requirements for this game was MS-DOS 5.0 for christ sake!
Literally everything you just said applies to Steam as well.Origin sucks because of the total lack of integration between it and the games it provides. What you download are first release installers and not the fully updated and packaged gamefiles.
I downloaded some of the free games on Origin before and EVERY SINGLE GAME required multiple updates before I could even play them. And when I loaded the game, even their lousy built in updater still needed to download more crap within the game itself.
It is the most inelegant and half-assed solution to online distribution.
Literally everything you just said applies to Steam as well.
Good Guy Valve does something, it's all praises and weird psudo-religious statements about their CEO being a deity. Scumbag EA does the exact same thing and it's incoherent hate and all-caps.
That'd mean using Origin... so not free in my book. Not even close.
Was it this one or the one after, that had Biff in their?
Copyrights last pretty much forever now. But that has nothing to do with EA's ability to give away one of their own games.
I don't, but I do remember Nobody Beats The Wiz as being awesome.
We were kinda low income as kids. My father ended up getting a settlement and took me there a few times to buy fancy electronics. It was...incredible.