Continuing on from Scotty's bargain of C&C Gold for free, Ubisoft have release 3 great games for free.
100% free and legal, these games have ads put in to make them available to us.
Be warned that these games are over 1GB in size, so it's best to only download if your internet plan permits.
Far Cry - Full Version:
FilePlanet
/ Internode
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Full Game:
FilePlanet
/ Internode
Rayman Raving Rabbids:
FilePlanet
/ Internode
Looks like they've made them US only. I downloaded Rayman but tried it yet. The download worked then, but I can't access it now.
To download them from Internode:
Pulling all of them down now just in case this method stopped working :)
Who is your ISP, scotty?
I'd do the same, but I can't afford downloading 1.5gig worth.
I think I'll just wait till Telstra host the games.
I am on Exetel and downloading from Internode via PIPE so pretty fast for me. I am on a 12GB plan but usually download only 3-4GB a month so not too worry about the limit.
This just in. I went browsing the GameArena forums for more information…
Apparantly this is only available to those in the US due to legal reasons.
You need to have a ubisoft account with USA listed as your location.
Person 1:
"my guess is that there are some legal issues regarding the software being used in Australia… hence the whole requirement to have your location set to USA on your ubi account (or so I'm told… I still haven't downloaded it yet…)"
GameArena Mod:
"You are correct, Ubisoft have specifically asked us not to mirror the recently released free games for that exact reason. Apparently they've also asked a bunch of others sites to remove their links, but hey it's the Internet. Seems a bit silly to me really, but what can you do."
Well. The conclusion now is — don't bother download it from Internode. Or maybe I just have not worked out a way to play it.
After I have downloaded the binaries (almost 5.3GB), it asks you for Ubisoft username/password before the installer will try to install. However when I created an account and then put the username/password there, the installer still came back with a prompt saying
"Sorry, you must live in the U.S. to play this title."
And then they will send you an email to your registered email address:
"Thank you for downloading one of the promotional PC titles made
available for ad-supported freeplay over the Labor Day weekend. The
promotion is now closed and it is no longer possible to play the games for free."
What the?!
Do note that my set up is about as US as I can be -
The only thing that comes from AU is downloading the installation binaries from Internode's server.
Bummer. There goes 5.3GB downloading quota for me this month. Maybe I'll do some packet inspection to get through the installation stage but since I don't game much anyway, I think I'll just give it up. :(
anyone else not being allowed download via internode?