Far Cry, Prince of Persia Free Downloads

I just got an e-mail from UBIsoft saying the "promotional" free version is no longer available. Well that sucks. I didn't know this was a "promotion."

I downloaded the game sucessfully, but it tells me that I must be a US resident to play. I am a US resident and my Ubisoft.com login I had to create ALSO says I'm a US resident. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks,!

I CAN NOT install any of these games! Is says I MUST BE A US RESIDENT ! WELL I WAS BORN HERE AND HAVE NEVER LEFT THE COUNTRY! OK so does anyone know what the crap is the problemo?

it keeps telling me you need to be from us. And i am and I made like 7 accounts saying Im from us. It wont let me play Far Cry!!

So what the hell, can you not play Far Cry MP or what?

It keeps asking me for a CD-Key.

started up rayman again today and the ads no longer play every time you lose, just every ten or so times (didn't count but it seemed like a lot). then after i beat the second arena it told me i was "top player in nation" or something. thats a pretty quick patchless fix on those ads. good job.

I'm not a psychology major, but I'm pretty sure the psychology here is not "If we show the player a Big Mac ad, he will then desire a Big Mac". As hopelessly misguided as advertisers usually are, they at least know that people don't work that way.

I think what they wish to achieve here is an association between the fun/pleasurable feelings you get from playing (or replaying) the game and, in this case, McDonald's. Similar to advertisers that use people partying/playing/having fun to sell things like beer or cigarettes, even when nobody in the commercials are drinking or smoking (Here in Canadia I believe its actually illegal to show people drinking beer in adverts).

The desired result here being, the next time you see a McDonald's you have a positive feeling and in turn have a desire to eat at McDonald's.

As far as in game advertisements go, this seems like a pretty effective system. I mean, the games are free, and the advertisements themselves don't seem too intrusive. What advertisers need to realize is that if they make people loathe their advertisements they probably hurt the product more than they help.

As for me, the ads during loading put me off downloading any of these. Unless the ads are silent. Could anyone who's tried one of these tell me what the loading screen ads are like? Are they pictures? video? sound?

I wouldn't mind trying farcry since I only played the demo (and didn't impress me enough to buy it, the AI was messed, though i dunno if that has changed).

I don't know if it was just my PC, but Far Cry was crashing back to the desktop from the loader splash screen.

I tried a few things, and was about to uninstall, when I got a hunch and disabled my 2nd monitor.

It started working. Bleh.

ATI X850, Catalyst 7.5 (7.8 has bugs with Richard Burns Rally :(

Just FYI if anyone encounters issues like this.

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anyone get this to work under windows 2000? I originally played the game under windows 2000 then my friend lost the 5th install cd : ( I get the "error the procedure entry point getrawinputdata could not be located in the dynamic link library user32.dll"

Anyone recommend a good download manager to use with the Mercury server? My D/L has failed 3 times now, using FireFox and IE.

I have downloaded this game 3 times but it keeps saying the file is corrupted and will not unzip. I even subscribed to use the mercury servers. Anyone else having this problem and is there a fix? Thanks!

Gren

oh crap they require a U.S. ubi.com account. :(

never played farcry, awesome now I can.

For some reason when I play Prince of Persia or Far Cry on my MacBook Pro starts chugging bad and I have to turn it off. This also happened with the MOH:A demo. This is after I was playing Bioshock fine (I forget what settings though, but if it can handle Bioshock it should be able to handle PoP).

rabbids is all but unplayable. i have failed on the damn cow toss mission like five times now and you have to watch the same fucking ad thats longer than the damn mission every time. i would not worth playing. i also tried far cry and that was fine.

FC, POP:SOT and GR are all great games and make sense on the PC. I'm surprised to know that RRR got a PC port, though. (I realise it's out for some of the other consoles as well.)

How does it work without the Wiimote? Is it fun or does it take all the bad things of a minigame-fest and remove the novelty of motion-sensitive controls?

I have still barely played the Wii version. Had no interest in it single player. Busted it out when a bunch of friends came round to try it out with them, but as far as we could tell you had to unlock everything to be able to play it which sucks donkey cock in a party environment. What the fuck is that about?? Or did we miss the "have fun and do what you want" menu item?

All of these games are on Gametap (aside from Rayman Raving Rabids - but there are other Rayman games there). Pretty cool how Ubisoft is really trying out the digital distribution channels.

I hope id and splash damage are taking notes. If there are ads then the game should be free, or at least not full retail price.

The Raving Rabids are in their natural environment, costing absolutely nothing to represent it's worth.

oh cool does it come with the 64 bit far cry special edition with enhance graphics and such?

I should DL Far Cry. 5 CD install FTL.

Holy shit that's awesome. Who cares about the ads, 2 of those games are good.

Dont forget about Ghost Recon too. http://www.gamershell.com/news/41338.html

this is VERY cool. i hope more game publishers adopt this idea.... just as long as the ads dont get in the way of the gameplay, im cool with it.

Is this the final version of the game, all patched up? i never got a chance to try the HDR lighting they added later on, as my old copy was less than legit.

Is this a limited time offer?

Some questions

- I this a web-browser like deal? As in, are those ads in the game coming from the files installed or being pulled off of the web?
- Are the ads always going to be the same? (related to the above question I suppose)
- Is that all? Like, is it just ads in the game or is there some sort of special software doing this for them (like what was rumored to be in BF2142)

If it's really just some free games for the price of watching some ads, then that's pretty awesome.

Holy shit, Prince of Persia is free too? I might have to hook up a USB mouse and KB to this laptop since Rainbox 6: Vegas is kicking my ass on the 360.

NO WAY!!! FAR CRY is FREE!!!! That's awesome!!!!=)