Alan D
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Posted: June 24 2007, 04:21 |
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| Quote (Bill Bobaggins @ June 23 2007, 22:59) | | Both say that they are version 1.3c. |
Ah, thanks Mary. So the versions that are available free are clearly marked as the most up to date versions (mine are 1.3b).
I must say, I think this is a nice and very welcome gesture on Mike's part. In a way it's kind of sad, because it tells us that as far as he's concerned, the MVR experiment is at an end. But we knew that already, so this is really only confirmation of it.
He never was going to recoup any significant amount of money from the games, and he's clearly lost interest in them himself. He could have simply let them fade away quietly. But in giving them away like this, and in abandoning the awkward online registration scheme (which no one liked, and which was a bother if you needed to reinstall the game more than once), he's effectively allowed them a second chance to have an influence on people.
Nice one Mike. These games have been a hugely enriching experience in my own life, and I think it's great that this way, they're still out there for others to discover. [Good to know from Onion's post, too, that they work OK with Vista.]
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That's bad, isn't it?? But this may have been more appropriate for another topic. 
