Game Updater Software Now Free

WingaWinga MrSouth Africa Icrontian
edited May 2006 in Science & Tech
GameShadow, the company behind the innovative automatic update and patch technology, has announced that it is now offering its popular service to gamers for free.

Their success at growing their user base to a critical milestone of 300 000 registered users, have enabled the company to do away with the subscription fee for the service entirely.
Visit Gameshadow for more information and downloads.
By signing up to the now FREE service, users will be able to: find out what updates are available for over 1,500 games and graphics cards; download as many patches and drivers as they need; download up to 1Gb of the best demos, movies, trailers and other content available on the web each month and personalise the service to include automatic alerts for when their favourite games issue updates and additional content.
Source: Gameshadow

Comments

  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    This actually looks very interesting, I am signing up now.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    I feel sorry for the 300k paid subscribers.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    This program is fanfreakin tastic! Detected all my games, makes it as simple as it gets to update software. I guess the only way it gets simpler is for it to update without my intervention. Kinda like steam.

    I never heard of this service before.

    Thrax, I guess those paid subscribers don't have to pay anymore is all... but I suppose being that for free you only get 1GB downloads per month then if you want more you keep your subscription. Either way, this is great.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Yeah, they don't have to pay any more, but everyone who is now signing up is getting (For free) what they already paid for. I would be pissy.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    I would not be pissy. I would:

    1: Be happy I no loner have to pay...
    2: Maybe continue to pay since I already was before... for an even better kind of service.
    3: Be happy still becuase I know now it'll probably gain more popularity and potentially fill the gap of other games which it doesn't currently have. I dont know what games that would be, but I am sure it doesn't have every single game out there.

    There is no reason to be upset, that'd be like being upset if MMO's decided to not charge anymore, or if food becomes free. You were paying for it before.... but no longer. They simply didn't have the user base to do this freely before, granted now they make money from advertisements, but I am sure most of us have grown to be blind against ad's by now. I don't even notice them anymore :P
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