Games 'Free to Play' time limit

[dragon_007]

I am currently downloading the "Rage" game and the free play time expires tomorrow. Once I started the download I find the game is a very large download (17.6 GB) and it takes quite some time for this download. I would like to suggest the 'free play' time be extended for several more days so most people can give this game a better evaluation after playing more than just a few hours prior to the expiration of the 'free play' time ends. On my computer it is taking from 7 to 24 hours to download and I know that most people after waiting for the download to complete will have little time for any kind of proper evaluation with such a small amount of time to be played.

[Mud'N]

• Well this is completely the wrong place for this thread.
  
• The game company desides on whether they allow, and for how long free weekend/free week lasts.
  
• you really should check on the first install screen how large it is.
  
• check the community during free weekend. I know for a fact that someone started a thread of whether the 20gig download is worth it.

I could get that link, but that is not in question here

[Zefar]

It's called "Free Weekend" and if you miss it on the first day then it's bad luck. You get to play the SP in this game and you can run through it if you want.

Adding several more days will just make people finish the game and quit it all together. The MP part is something I doubt kept people interested.

[dragon_007]

I started thia download at 10:39 AM 11/23/2013 with a peak D/L rate of 804.2 KB/s fluctuating to 0.0 KB/s with the final D/L completed at 1:29 AM on 11/24/2013. After I get a bit of sleep I will try to play this game for as long as I can. I would not have even considered this game at all except for a friend letting me know about it. After I watched the 6 videos about this game I decided to try it. But I did not expect the D/L to take this long before I could even try to play. I hope when I wake up later this morning I will be able to play for at least a little while.

[Mud'N]

I did not even try because of the download size, and the fact that worms listed its free weekend a few hours sooner (But that clanwars is bust imho)

[Tsu]

That is an excellent topic you have uncovered, dragon_007! The time the game is downloaded for me the weekend will be over.

I'd like to suggest this: The window one has for trying the game should not be not absolute (15.11.–17.11.) but relative: »As soon as the download is at 100% you have two days for…«.

[Mud'N]

They can rather make the downlaod available from the start of the week (monday or so) and only enable the license through the weekend. It is a weekend event to pull alot of players for that weekend. if you split it you would get a moderate weekend and the slow downloaders will geet no sence of community (on the other hand such community does not really exist activly sometimes).

[dragon_007]

After my download completed, I managed to get some sleep and ended up playing for about 1.5 to 2 hours before the expiration time. What little I managed to play was interesting but still leaves quite a lot of content that I never got to see at all. What little I managed to play was interesting but after the time limit expired I don't think I was afforded enough time to give this game any kind of reccomendation good or bad. I definately feel slighted because of this and in future "Free Play" weekends I am not sure I would go through this again.

[Hempest]

Free to play weekends are just that, weekends where the game is free to play. It is your own for waiting till so late to start downloading the game. Also no one really cares whether or not you download a game for free again or not get over it.

[Silicon Vampire]

For the $6.23, you should have just bought it w/ the DLC for the single player.

My opinion only but I had a ton of fun with it. Played through a few times and when Scorchers came out and I got it cheap, it was worth another run through.

[ReBoot]

Actually, the game has been available for download since Friday.

[76561198110241428]

Originally posted by dragon_007:

I am currently downloading the "Rage" game and the free play time expires tomorrow. Once I started the download I find the game is a very large download (17.6 GB) and it takes quite some time for this download. I would like to suggest the 'free play' time be extended for several more days so most people can give this game a better evaluation after playing more than just a few hours prior to the expiration of the 'free play' time ends. On my computer it is taking from 7 to 24 hours to download and I know that most people after waiting for the download to complete will have little time for any kind of proper evaluation with such a small amount of time to be played.

[76561198077421294]

Originally posted by Zefar:

It's called "Free Weekend" and if you miss it on the first day then it's bad luck. You get to play the SP in this game and you can run through it if you want.

Adding several more days will just make people finish the game and quit it all together. The MP part is something I doubt kept people interested.

OP is right,"free week" countdown should start from the moment you had downloaded game,which makes more sense then it is now.And I dont see why would adding several more days make anything unfair because everyone would have same amount of playtime as one who DL-ed it on day first.(Eg.Day you first DL-ed game + X days{Moment it became available - end of the week})