Microsoft is giving away Tinker for free

[lanux128]

Backstory: Microsoft is launching an online games store not unlike Steam, GOG, etc with the moniker "Games on Demand". you can call it GoD if you want.

In conjunction with this launch, Microsoft is giving away Tinker, a 60-level puzzle game, previously only available to owners of Windows Vista Ultimate. Tinker is free but you must create an account and install the "Games for Windows LIVE" client.

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Source: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/12/16/download-microsoft-tinker-game-for-free/

[f0dder]

Dislike. There's enough game services already... another competitor, along with another stupid game manager, isn't going to be any good.

I just wish steam would have slightly better pricing, and that all the competitors would die off.

[Lashiec]

I just wish steam would have slightly better pricing, and that all the competitors would die off.

Erm, what? o_O

[Deozaan]

28MB for a game download service?

Is Tinker worth it?

[f0dder]

I just wish steam would have slightly better pricing, and that all the competitors would die off.

Erm, what? o_O

Might sound slightly counter-intuitive, I know - the sentence is really meant as two points, not a "point B follows point A" . I find it drop-dead annoying that some games are available through service foo and others through bar, forcing me to have several game distribution platforms installed... especially when some of those platforms SUCKS (EA Download Manager, for instance)... STEAM is the most non-intrusive, easy-to-use and nice platform I've seen so far. Problem is that pricing is too high (for the major games at least, the various discounts and indie game prices are OK) - I feel I should pay less for an electronic distribution, since the distributors don't have the hassle of shipping physical goods.

[y0himba]

I am still waiting for Hold 'em

[tinjaw]

,,.,...,.

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Um, that's how it is supposed to work. That is called the Free Market. We like the Free Market. 

[lanux128]

Steam is one of the better platform for digital distribution out there and they have quickly carved out a niche for themselves. that's one of the reason why they lead the market.

[f0dder]

The idea of the free market doesn't work, and what we have isn't free market anyway.

[tinjaw]

The idea of the free market doesn't work, and what we have isn't free market anyway.

I hope you know I was just yanking your chain. 

And yes, true, what we have (at least in the U.S.) is far from a Free Market.

Political opinion expressed inside

Vote Libertarian

[f0dder]

A regulated market is far superior to a truly free market anyway, too bad a lot of the current regulation across the globe is more in the interest of the Evil Korporations than us lowly endusers.