The
GameTap Blog announces a large
number of games will be removed from their library of free offerings as of
Thursday, at which time one of their paid "Gold" memberships will be required
for continued access. Their reasoning is this: "As many of you know, over the
past year or so we’ve released well over one hundred games for free, in order to
entice people to sample what GameTap has to offer and, hopefully, subscribe to
our service. This strategy has worked incredibly well for us, and now we’re
ready to move on." This leads to a pitch to subscribe, but they offer the
following outlook for penny-pinchers: "If you can’t afford that, don’t worry,
we’ve still got quite a few games for you to try out. Not only are we keeping
over 40 games around for you, we’ll also continue to entice you with weekly
samplers - full, free games you can play for one week only. Going into the
future, these games include Sid Meier’s Pirates!, Garou: Mark of the Wolves,
X-Com: UFO Defense, and many more we have not yet announced. You can guarantee
that a lot of the games we’re removing will make brief appearances in the
future!" Thanks
Voodoo Extreme.
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As was mentioned in an earlier post Valve has already promised to "free" the games if it becomes clear the Steam servers have to go down. That is simply not true although it is an often repeated myth (but not by Valve). If it were true, it would be specified in the Steam Subscriber Agreement, but it isn't. It would be very easy to do so. In addition while it is far more likely that you as an individual will lose your Steam account than for everyone to do so, it could still happen, and Valve guarantees nothing in return in either case.
Edit: Sorry about the flapping your keys reference. I guess that was a tad impolite. If you were really sorry for it, you would have removed it in your edit.
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