A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123847
01/25/03 12:59 PM
01/25/03 12:59 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 183 Sweden
dimidimidimi
OP
Settled Boomer
|
OP
Settled Boomer
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 183
Sweden
|
A stupid guy is making money out of free games
Can somebody who is good at hacking just mess his '^&"*&^^& computer up please?
Last edited by looney4labs; 06/26/07 02:24 PM. Reason: remove broken link
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123849
01/25/03 01:18 PM
01/25/03 01:18 PM
|
Joined: Nov 1999
Posts: 10,323
gatorlaw
Adept Boomer
|
Adept Boomer
Joined: Nov 1999
Posts: 10,323
|
I know these games are all available for download, but if you look at the bottom there is a faint copyright credit to Islona Entertainment. I looked up the company on the web and it appears that they are the copyright holders for 6th Sense Investigations and put together the original compilation CD that is now for sale at EBay. Islona Ent Adventure CD Originally it retailed at 29.00. I don't think this is a ripped version, but a re-seller of the original CD. The disc label is the same. I'll keep checking though. OK I finally found a link to the company itself and it appears they are no longer around. They were retailing classic Amiga and other games on CD's. Laura
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123851
01/25/03 02:53 PM
01/25/03 02:53 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 183 Sweden
dimidimidimi
OP
Settled Boomer
|
OP
Settled Boomer
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 183
Sweden
|
Aparently as you can read in this thread in the Tierra forums they definitely didn't have the rights to include KQ1 remake, not the other ones either and not only that but they endagered the future of Tierra by this stupid action...
Last edited by looney4labs; 06/26/07 02:22 PM. Reason: remove broken link
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123852
01/25/03 02:56 PM
01/25/03 02:56 PM
|
Joined: Nov 1999
Posts: 10,323
gatorlaw
Adept Boomer
|
Adept Boomer
Joined: Nov 1999
Posts: 10,323
|
Bastet, I finally found a mention of this game at Adventure Archive. Both CineTech and EpicMarketing the original developers/publishers are non-locatable on the web. Although all the other games on the CD for sale can be found online for free download - not so with Sixth Sense. Laura
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123853
01/25/03 03:03 PM
01/25/03 03:03 PM
|
Joined: Nov 1999
Posts: 10,323
gatorlaw
Adept Boomer
|
Adept Boomer
Joined: Nov 1999
Posts: 10,323
|
Dimidimidimi, We almost posted at the same time - so I didn;t see your post right away. I had that exact feeling. The Sixth Sense game is older and was released on a CD. But the others all have active sites and developers. This seemed so wrong to me, so I sent a link to the EBay site to all 4 of them and asked whether it was an authorized version. From reading the Tierra forum link - I know the answer to that question now. Seems to me - they should go after this guy/store. I was happy to see that they are considering a united approach against this rip off. GRRRRRR Laura
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123854
01/25/03 03:51 PM
01/25/03 03:51 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 183 Sweden
dimidimidimi
OP
Settled Boomer
|
OP
Settled Boomer
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 183
Sweden
|
For those of you who want to download Ignac, a cute lucasartsy kind of adventure, but extremely short (will take you about 10 minutes to finish) here is the download page: http://www.downloadfreegames.co.uk/games/details.asp?id=55I can't wait for ignac 2 that is supposed to be a normal game and with a better interface/less pixel-hunting. As for those of you who haven't tried KQ2 remake yet, then stop what you're doing and head directly to www.tierraentertainment.com to download one of the best adventures ever. Laura I share your anger and I hope that they will stop these stupid persons.
Last edited by looney4labs; 06/26/07 02:24 PM. Reason: updated link
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123856
01/25/03 05:58 PM
01/25/03 05:58 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 7,858 North Florida
BillyBob
BAAG Specialist
|
BAAG Specialist
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 7,858
North Florida
|
I do not download much from the internet because I find so much of it is, frankly, confusing to me in the way it is presented. The links above to KQ1 and KQ2 for downloading are fine but at these download locations are also music downloads, etc. It doesn't say.....at least I didn't see that it did, but are these downloads necessary for playing the game? I understand the "patches" but not the others. Sign me...... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="confused.gif" /> and <img border="0" alt=" " title="" src="graemlins/woozy.gif" /> but
I didn't do it......and if I did I'm not guilty!
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123858
01/25/03 06:13 PM
01/25/03 06:13 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 10,663 Massachusetts
friedmonky
Adept Boomer
|
Adept Boomer
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 10,663
Massachusetts
|
Hi Snowmoon, You can find it here, along with alot of other games: http://www.ambrosine.com/
Even monkeys fall from trees sometimes.
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123859
01/25/03 06:29 PM
01/25/03 06:29 PM
|
Joined: Nov 1999
Posts: 10,323
gatorlaw
Adept Boomer
|
Adept Boomer
Joined: Nov 1999
Posts: 10,323
|
Just heard from Tierra (developers of the two KQ remakes) Yes, a number of people have brought this to our attention. This guy is selling these CDs illegally and without our permission. We've contacted him and asked him to remove them. We are currently awaiting his reply.
Tierra's games will never be sold for money. They'll always be free downloads. If you see someone charging money for them, it's someone who's taken the game without our permission and is doing it for their own selfish benefit.
Thanks for the concern. Thank you Dimidimidimi for posting about this. Obviously, there are always those who will prey on others creative efforts to line their own pockets. Laura
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123861
01/25/03 09:46 PM
01/25/03 09:46 PM
|
Joined: Nov 1999
Posts: 10,323
gatorlaw
Adept Boomer
|
Adept Boomer
Joined: Nov 1999
Posts: 10,323
|
You are wonderful yourself, Bastet <img border="0" alt="[kiss]" title="" src="graemlins/kiss.gif" /> Laura
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123862
01/25/03 11:00 PM
01/25/03 11:00 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 34,312 United Kingdom
Mad
Sonic Boomer
|
Sonic Boomer
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 34,312
United Kingdom
|
Hi. Have to hope this silly behaviour gets nipped in the bud These Tierra "game remakes" are just marvellous and give us another taste of what true adventuring was once really like Cheers. Mad
Time : The Most Precious Commodity
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123867
01/26/03 10:47 AM
01/26/03 10:47 AM
|
Joined: Feb 2000
Posts: 146 Ohio
Calypso
Settled Boomer
|
Settled Boomer
Joined: Feb 2000
Posts: 146
Ohio
|
This guy was left feedback on 12/7/02 from someone warning that the CD might not be original, so the seller claims he has a copyright on the CD. This is another one like the one demidemidemi found. So he has already sold at least one if not more.
Don't bother me. I'm living happily ever after.
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123869
01/26/03 01:10 PM
01/26/03 01:10 PM
|
Joined: Dec 1999
Posts: 31,224 Northwestern New Mexico, USA
Jenny
Grande Olde Dame
|
Grande Olde Dame
Sonic Boomer
Joined: Dec 1999
Posts: 31,224
Northwestern New Mexico, USA
|
Originally posted by Marian: BillyBob, on the King's Quest Tierra games you can download the basic game and will be able to play just fine. If you download the speech packs, there will be voices in the game as well as text to read; the music download will add a nice soundtrack. Not necessary for the games, but the speech and music do enhance them. Marian, I found the music download, but where is the one for speech... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="confused.gif" />
"Once you give up integrity, the rest is easy." Anonymous
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123871
01/26/03 01:51 PM
01/26/03 01:51 PM
|
Joined: Dec 1999
Posts: 31,224 Northwestern New Mexico, USA
Jenny
Grande Olde Dame
|
Grande Olde Dame
Sonic Boomer
Joined: Dec 1999
Posts: 31,224
Northwestern New Mexico, USA
|
Thanks, Dimi, I'll download it then. I wonder why they did speech in #1 but not in #2? But it's no big deal, I've played other very good games (like Passage) that didn't have speech...
"Once you give up integrity, the rest is easy." Anonymous
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123873
01/26/03 02:43 PM
01/26/03 02:43 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 15,679 England
tigger
Graduate Boomer
|
Graduate Boomer
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 15,679
England
|
I Do remember the agapito and other games being made available on Ebay UK, I steered clear as I didn't recognise the games and thought that if we needed an emulator to play, it wasn't 100% Kosher. ie a rip of an older game. This was about 6 months ago....
I think we are back into the freeware/abandonware saga with this.. Someone bothered to create the game, oh for a scenario where we could just send a royalty to the creator and be allowed to play!!
The other thing these guys do is create a fake id for Ebay, use it for a while, then start pushing bogus stuff. Not sure if this guy comes into this category, but it Does happen.
Tig
A bounce a day keeps the doctor away!! Playing Sims2, Sherlock, Phantom of Venice Reading Storm Breaking
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123875
01/27/03 02:22 AM
01/27/03 02:22 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 2,964 San Francisco
fov
Addicted Boomer
|
Addicted Boomer
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 2,964
San Francisco
|
I wonder why they did speech in #1 but not in #2? But it's no big deal, I've played other very good games (like Passage) that didn't have speech... it's because KQ2VGA is a *much* bigger game than their first remake (with a lot more dialogue). the KQ2 download was already 40+ MB and they didn't want their downloads to be prohibitive since online distribution is their only distribution. emily
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123876
01/27/03 03:26 AM
01/27/03 03:26 AM
|
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 15,679 England
tigger
Graduate Boomer
|
Graduate Boomer
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 15,679
England
|
No need to apologise Dimi, I'm sure quite a lot of us feel the same way Tig
A bounce a day keeps the doctor away!! Playing Sims2, Sherlock, Phantom of Venice Reading Storm Breaking
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123877
01/27/03 12:27 PM
01/27/03 12:27 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 183 Sweden
dimidimidimi
OP
Settled Boomer
|
OP
Settled Boomer
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 183
Sweden
|
VICTORY!!!!!
The item has been closed down by Ebay. I want to thank everybody who helped in this.
Last edited by looney4labs; 06/26/07 02:26 PM. Reason: remove broken link
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123881
01/27/03 08:00 PM
01/27/03 08:00 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 808 Los Angeles, CA. USA
lakerz
Settled Boomer
|
Settled Boomer
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 808
Los Angeles, CA. USA
|
Hmmm, I hope ebay's legal team goes after this guy for including those freeware games on the cd without proper authorization. I did notice on the website link on the first page of this thread, the site kinda implied that the user wasn't paying for the freeware games. It acted like the user was paying to receive Sixth Sense Investigations and the other games were thrown in for free. Of course, it doesn't mention anywhere that they were free to begin with! So, wrong wrong wrong not to give any credit for developers. Very shady.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas...
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123883
01/28/03 07:28 AM
01/28/03 07:28 AM
|
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 15,679 England
tigger
Graduate Boomer
|
Graduate Boomer
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 15,679
England
|
I too sent it to a contact at eBay UK.. the manager of the sports division. He sent it on to the gaming chap, so I can always ask if other action is being taken Tig
A bounce a day keeps the doctor away!! Playing Sims2, Sherlock, Phantom of Venice Reading Storm Breaking
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123884
01/28/03 11:40 AM
01/28/03 11:40 AM
|
Joined: Nov 1999
Posts: 10,323
gatorlaw
Adept Boomer
|
Adept Boomer
Joined: Nov 1999
Posts: 10,323
|
Well done! I love it when folks get together and take action. Take that evildoers, GBers are on your tail. Booya!
Laura
|
|
|
Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games
#123885
01/28/03 11:43 AM
01/28/03 11:43 AM
|
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 183 Sweden
dimidimidimi
OP
Settled Boomer
|
OP
Settled Boomer
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 183
Sweden
|
I have to admit that the folks from Gameboomers along with the folks from the Tierra forums were the ones that took action more than anyone else. Congratulations boomers! You are one hell of a group of adventurers (in the good meaning - just writing this because another term I used before, bomb, got misunderstood ) Dimitris
|
|
|
|
|