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Will YOU BUY Freelancer? - Post it here!!

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Post Tue Feb 25, 2003 11:49 pm

In an attempt to save you all some money, DONT BUY THIS GAME.
It is one of the most shallow games I have ever encountered. They spent 4-5 years developing this game and there are only 3 responses from NPCs, "right", "Uh huh", or "Great". Every planet or station is the same as the last, the "Bar" is a "Bar" on every planet and station. The missions don't adapt to you. If you are flying a fighter or a frieghter, the missions remain the same.
If you want to be a trader, good luck. You will find no work and you cant hire escorts. Want to be a pirate? You better be able to kill the fleet with a cargo ship if you plan on taking enough of the loot with you to make money.

If you think you will enjoy KIll all Rouges missions 1000 times, go ahead a waste your money. If you where looking for something to immerse yourselves in, keep hunting.

My 2 cents

Post Tue Feb 25, 2003 11:57 pm

Me? Unfortunately no. I don't live in North America, Europe or Asia. I live in a 3rd World Country called Ghana. Though I am what you'd called an Upeer Classed Citizen (Equal to a WELL to do family in UK (i.e. We own the house, both parents own their own companies. etc stuff like that).

Now, according to the law of Economics, Good are supplies acording to demand. I can see why no retail store in UK,US,CAN,ASIA is not willing to set a store in Any 3rd Country. (Eygpt and South Africa Aren't) Nor are they willing to ship here (Or are my parents will to use their Foreign Aquired Cerdit Cards (you guessed it, they is no such thing as a Cerdit Card system in here) on international deal, which are most likely to be stolen or lost.) I can only aquire store bought game in June + (When we go on our yearly trip to US (Florida mostly) or Europe (UK -Lodon mostly. France sometimes)).

******LONG STORY MADE SHOT & POINT********

There is no possible way to get a store bought copy of this or any other game(which is why me X -box/ GC collection is small 1 game each) hence the download (Which is slow by the way. Cable/Dsl does not exist here. Lan 10mbit has not mannage to maintain over 15kbps. I hate this place).


I used to hate weddings; all the Grandmas would poke me and say, "You're next sonny!" They stopped doing that when i started to do it to them at funerals.

Post Wed Feb 26, 2003 1:02 am

Will I buy the game?

Well, I'll find that out in 2 minutes and 30 seconds, when my demo has finished dowloading.

Post Wed Feb 26, 2003 1:26 am

Already purchased.....now I am looking whistfully at the receipt....only a week to go...OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHRAHHHHH

Post Wed Feb 26, 2003 2:44 am

I have preordered it

Post Wed Feb 26, 2003 5:59 pm

Yup On Pre-Order here

Post Wed Feb 26, 2003 11:42 pm

Im buying... As soon as my dad lets me borrow his credit card

Post Thu Feb 27, 2003 12:29 am

Absolutely not.

No stick support.
No radar.
Forced key/mouse button mapping.

Hopefully, DA will see the stupidity of their ways in shunning the one group of players where they'd guarantee a sale, but I doubt it. The arrogance in their dev diaries tells me they've got their heads too far up their collective asses to realize this.

- Z

Post Thu Feb 27, 2003 1:16 am

Im just wondering what you are doing here then Zapaan?? If you dislike the game so much?

Post Thu Feb 27, 2003 1:24 am

I pre-ordered it over Chips&Bits last year, now I am only waiting for the mail from US =))

Post Thu Feb 27, 2003 1:27 am

He/she is here because he/she is expressing their opinion.

Can I ask this though, what group of players are they shunning? The group that only plays games with a joystick?? The die-hard space sim fans are wetting themselves over this game so they're not being shunned .... plus almost all games these days are mouse/keyboard.

I was skeptical of the control scheme at first but it actually works.

Post Thu Feb 27, 2003 1:36 am

bhaal why not when you go on a trip to somewhere you just buy it from the store. i mean if u understand the language and all. (no offense but just to show u, i only speak english, know how to count to 10 in spainish and know a little bit of french.)

-I trade for a living, rouges piss me off, come get me, catch me if you can, i will leave you in the dust, or you'll die trying, take your pick.-

@Heretic Inc. We trade because we own.@

Post Thu Feb 27, 2003 8:37 am

I'm gonna buy it when it comes in stores over here...
Which will probeply be the 18th of April...

boohoo

Post Thu Feb 27, 2003 9:09 am

Im holding out on this one, atleast untila true space sim arrives

Post Thu Feb 27, 2003 5:50 pm

Why do you want to wait until April.18th?
At Austria, you can buy the UK version at 7th March!

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