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A stupid guy is making money out of free games #123847
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A stupid guy is making money out of free games




Can somebody who is good at hacking just mess his '^&"*&^^& computer up please?

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Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games #123848
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I ran a search at Alltheweb.com about the first game that I didn't know about and it seems that he/she is selling more than just free adventures...

here

Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games #123849
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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. smile

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.

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Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games #123850
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Laura, do you know where we can download the 6th Sense Investigations? It looks sooo nice...

Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games #123851
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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...


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Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games #123852
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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. frown

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Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games #123853
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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. frown

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
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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=55

I 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.

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Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games #123855
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Dimi:

Take a look at some of this guy's Ebay negative feedback. One buyer says the Tetris disk he got had a message on it to scan for viruses. Another says that the FM Sim disk consisted of a bunch of demos and another buyer said he had been sent a pirated disk. Seems to be a pattern here; you gotta admit he's resourceful.

Let's see, I can burn a CD with Zork 1,2,3. Burn another CD with the Post Mortem demo. Finish it up with a CD of Dimi's Inventory 1-3 and sell the whole thing on Ebay as a 3-Disk Adventure Gamer's bundle for hmmmmmm $19.99!

Thanks for exposing this dude- I hope the companies with the original copyrights will put a stop to it (especially Tierra- here they make these great games (KQ1&2 remakes) for free and some twerps try to make money off it!).

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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="woozy" title="" src="graemlins/woozy.gif" /> but laugh


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Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games #123857
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That is a shame....... frown

Does anyone know where to get "Monster Manor" online? I haven't seen that one anywhere.....

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Hi Snowmoon,
You can find it here, along with alot of other games:
http://www.ambrosine.com/


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Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games #123859
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Just heard from Tierra (developers of the two KQ remakes)

Quote:
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. frown

Laura





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Thanks, Brave Lady Laura and Sir Dimidimidimi! wave

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You are wonderful yourself, Bastet <img border="0" alt="[kiss]" title="" src="graemlins/kiss.gif" />

Laura smile





Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games #123862
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Hi.

Have to hope this silly behaviour gets nipped in the bud mad

These Tierra "game remakes" are just marvellous and give us another taste of what true adventuring was once really like happydance

Cheers.

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Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games #123863
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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. smile

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Quote:
Originally posted by friedmonky:
Hi Snowmoon,
You can find it here, along with alot of other games:
http://www.ambrosine.com/
Thanks! wave

Re: A stupid guy is making money out of free games #123865
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Okay - some will understand, and others will not... Dimitri - Look I got it right!

Yeah, it's a shame. I surely hope it doesn't cause any problems for Tierra.

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Hi Inland - congrats laugh (yep, I knew what you were referring to) and nope, I'm not "the spy" wink


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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.


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Quote:
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. smile
Marian, I found the music download, but where is the one for speech... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="confused.gif" />


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Jenny, only KQ1 has a speech version. KQ2 remake only has a music pack, which you do not need to run KQ2, but it is highly recommended to install it also, since then the music quality will be much superior to the MIDI version.


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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...


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