Hi Lockett,
Have you psted in the wrong forum??? I make no mention of Game Top here, Until replying to your post that is (see below for details) but you did.
Gametop is not a Warez site, but a sponsored site. The games offered are paid for elsewhere through revenues gleaned from their advertising and Forex . Sorry you feel you have to make a personal comment against me by accusing me of promoting Warez; (and therefore implicit in that accusation that I use such programs). I would never promote Warez, or cracks If they were these sorts of sites do you think the giveaway moderators would have allowed the comments to remain??? I think not. Read my reply to your insistence that these sites are crack sites in the comments section. - comment #66
http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/quest-atlantis/
You should be sure of your information before you post such remarks as they will undoubtedly put otherwise interested parties off visiting them and therefore stop them from gaining some excellent free games. ‘One’ of the reasons I post these links to such sites is because I know there are some community members who would otherwise not have the pleasure of downloading extra games as they are unable to afford them as I can. I also post them so that community members can check out similar games to those being given away.
I do not support cracks and Warez because the people who post such stuff take away valuable resources that would otherwise be better spent on game and applications development.
I personally spend an inordinate amount of money on software and games in particular, (I buy most of the fps games that are released regularly, as well as other genres such as RTS and RPG's as well as simulations. All usually on pre-order, so I pay premium prices for them, not the knock down prices you find a few yer dow the line, though I do buy some titles from such sources; usually games I though I wouldn't enjoy, for example I recently picked up Full Spectrum Warrior for the equivalent of less than $10, which three years ago cost more than $50 . I also received a full version of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 for free a few weeks ago for renewing my subscription to fileplanets founders club, despite already having purchased it (I've already given that one away to a friend). That has obviously been purchased by the IGN corporation who own the vast fileplanet sysem (for those wh don't know file planet is a place to get all your mods and maps as wellas patches and oter files for all your favorite games (I have around 200G's of mods and maps just for Battlefield 2 alone). I personally think the price I pay for a game such as Crysis, CoD4, or Unreal Tournament (as well as other non fps games such as World in Conflict, Company of Heroes and other genres. {And that’s not counting the games I buy for my children who use consoles}) is money well spent, simply because of the amount of pleasure one can get from such games. I could easily spend four times as much treating my wife to one meal at a restaurant, whose pleasure is soon lost. Not only that I happen to own hundreds of Arcade games, but not those given away by the giveaway project, but from purchasing them from sites such as Alawar, Game house, Garage Games, Big Fish Games, and Reflexive (to name just a few distributors/developers I buy from). I always try to purchase games from new and upcoming games developers as well. When I discover them that is, as I believe it will go towards making even better games. – e.g. I've just paid for World of Goo on the basis of the freeware version Tower of Goo and I've also requested I be informed when the Crayons Deluxe game is released as I will certainly be purchasing that one as well, (after playing the short freeware version recommended by Phil last week.
The point of all the seemingly pointless twaddle I've just mentioned above is to try and show you that I'm a dedicated gamer, who enjoys paying for his pleasures, not getting them for free; though there are some i do enjoy for free ;)
No I do not support Warez, but I do support sites that give away games for free as I get just as much pleasure from playing a free game as I do from those I frequently purchase
By the way, keep up the great reviews you've been writing recently. I think it's great to get someone writing a review such as your's as they add to my own which often don't detail the stuff you choose to write about. :)
