Why is this game not offered for free?

[MrTekniQ]

I have the original CD's that came as a gift in a gaming magazine in christmas of 1999.

The game does not use any sort of game-key verification, you can literaly download the game and play it on official servers, as like i said it uses no cdkey/serial key.

The game is super-old.

As a die hard fan i can't understand why would they charge for UT: GOTY,

One of the best FPS's ever made, for the time it was released it had amazing graphics, the BOT AI was like a new thing in gaming.

Forever in my hear, Deck-16, Coret, Liandri and Gauntlet.

Offer this game for free, i would like to have in my library, i'm not sure how much longer will my CD's last.

[{FLS}Anarkiswar]

I own all them from unreal to UT 3 black edition but bought them AGAIN for my steam account and to show love for these epic games Played the he77 out of 2004 on the nacho`s and beer server with clan UBR.

[Doomcrew]

I bought this game back in the day and the GOTY patch was free from unreals official site. I don't own it on steam, but the last time i played online there were still alot of people playing and alot of modded stuff which to me, was one of the best things people did. I own UT, Unreal gold, and Unreal 2. The cost of those games when i bought them is far more expensive then buying the unreal deal pack which gives you 2 more games. Honestly, i wouldn't mind paying for it again, i would just hope that the online population is strong and that people are still modding.Some game mods were simply phenomanol, and the population was very healthy. Yes I'm an old time fan and i guess i reminisced too much. Seriously, I get your point about having to pay for a game twice, but, thats just how things are. Same applies to consoles and stuff. You pay for the convienence and the support. Wait for it to go on sale. It can't be that bad.

[Cichutek]

After all these years playing UT almost days and nights I hoped I would be nicely surprised... Well. The administrators decided otherwise ;)

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Hero님이 먼저 게시:

That's exactly my point, the game is free to download in so many places, and it's the real deal, so i don't understand, it's like charging 10 dollars to buy League of Legends, when the latter is free to download.

Free to download where? On illigal sites, yes...

Thats the only place youy will find a 'free' UT99...

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Guybrush Threepwood™님이 먼저 게시:

The Unreal Tournament v436 patch effectively made it a NOCD patch, this was an official release

This was not true.

The 'No Delta' patcfh was not an official patch by the game devs.

[Pad.Trick]

436 was the last official patch and it also contains no-cd.
all updates later, wasnt official but with support from epic.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

-De@dlY-님이 먼저 게시:

436 was the last official patch and it also contains no-cd.
all updates later, wasnt official but with support from epic.

Your wrong. The latter patch where not supported by Epicgames. They where community made server patches. UNreal Engine was very easy to mod, patch etc.

The no delta patch was created with content of 436 that includes a no cd crack.

You may be confusing iwth the old 436 creative patch...

[Pad.Trick]

Nali Warcow - Mooing'님이 먼저 게시:

-De@dlY-님이 먼저 게시:

436 was the last official patch and it also contains no-cd.
all updates later, wasnt official but with support from epic.

Your wrong. The latter patch where not supported by Epicgames. They where community made server patches. UNreal Engine was very easy to mod, patch etc.

The no delta patch was created with content of 436 that includes a no cd crack.

You may be confusing iwth the old 436 creative patch...

ur wrong, the later patches are unofficial patches. epic gave the source code to choosen community member which done the patches together with 1 guy from epic.

just read ur self @ about http://www.utpg.org/

[GamingWithSilvertail]

-De@dlY-님이 먼저 게시:

Nali Warcow - Mooing'님이 먼저 게시:

Your wrong. The latter patch where not supported by Epicgames. They where community made server patches. UNreal Engine was very easy to mod, patch etc.

The no delta patch was created with content of 436 that includes a no cd crack.

You may be confusing iwth the old 436 creative patch...

ur wrong, the later patches are unofficial patches. epic gave the source code to choosen community member which done the patches together with 1 guys from epic.

considering the n o delta patch doesnt really work with 440+ servers, what makes sence to you?

Steam version of UT doesnt use the no delta versiopn :P

[Pad.Trick]

Nali Warcow - Mooing'님이 먼저 게시:

-De@dlY-님이 먼저 게시:

ur wrong, the later patches are unofficial patches. epic gave the source code to choosen community member which done the patches together with 1 guys from epic.

considering the n o delta patch doesnt really work with 440+ servers, what makes sence to you?

Steam version of UT doesnt use the no delta versiopn :P

looks like u doesnt know, why no delta patch was made ?!

No Delta is a special patch for people who have CD reading problems when patching, or have the Japanese version of UT, or the 428 version bundled with some Creative Labs products. Version 436 clients are network compatible with all previous public release.

So why Steam should use a Patch, if they doesnt use any sort of this?

if u cant connect to any server goto http://www.utpg.org/ download latest version (most servers running this) and install it.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

-De@dlY-님이 먼저 게시:

Nali Warcow - Mooing'님이 먼저 게시:

considering the n o delta patch doesnt really work with 440+ servers, what makes sence to you?

Steam version of UT doesnt use the no delta versiopn :P

looks like u doesnt know, why no delta patch was made ?!

No Delta is a special patch for people who have CD reading problems when patching, or have the Japanese version of UT, or the 428 version bundled with some Creative Labs products. Version 436 clients are network compatible with all previous public release.

So why Steam should use a Patch, if they doesnt use any sort of this?

if u cant connect to any server goto http://www.utpg.org/ download latest version (most servers running this) and install it.

Your confusing with the creative436...

Eitherway... Take a lot at all steam games mkay, especially those of the unreal engine, like Rune...

[AN BIFFED ELF!!!!]

No he's not. Traditionally a UT patch would be based on binary delta file differences to keep the size down, but always either targeted the retail release or special OEM bundle releases (like Creative). NoDelta is intended for an end-all full file extraction solution of a patch for any version and every SKU and it is official.

436 is the final official version, 451 is the unofficial UTPG version. 436 officially removes the SafeDisc check it has had since 400.

Epic wasn't the first to do such a thing in official patches either. id software removed their cd check on Quake 2 for v3.20.

[Lepo]

I really hope this goes free one day. People actually loves F2P, i'm sure thousands of people will play this!

[Pad.Trick]

since bf1942 is F2P.
maybe someday.
we can just hope ^^

[GamingWithSilvertail]

-De@dlY-님이 먼저 게시:

since bf1942 is F2P.
maybe someday.
we can just hope ^^

Huge difference: BF series have like 10 games. UT have 3 games, and are not developed anymore. UT4 isnt even thought of.