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Old 11-10-2008, 12:23 PM   #51
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I got this game for free in a magazine back in 1997 in its full version. It's a pretty cool game, but I never understood why it came for free since the magazine was the equivalent of about 5 U.S. dollars.
The way this works is that the magazine paid LucasArts a licensing fee. LA agreed to that, since the sales of the game were dropping (or almost nonexistent), in order to get a little more cash out of the title.
The magazine might have ran a few more ads in that issue to balance the costs.

It's not really unusual - Polish gaming mags do it all the time, with between 2 and 4 full games per issue on a regular basis.
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Old 11-10-2008, 02:31 PM   #52
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The way this works is that the magazine paid LucasArts a licensing fee. LA agreed to that, since the sales of the game were dropping (or almost nonexistent), in order to get a little more cash out of the title.
The magazine might have ran a few more ads in that issue to balance the costs.

It's not really unusual - Polish gaming mags do it all the time, with between 2 and 4 full games per issue on a regular basis.
cool! I didn't know that. I haven't really noticed if we still do that around here lately since it's been a while that I didn't buy any of those magazines - they became very expensive here and we have the internet to tell us things now.
I loved that game tough. and it was all tranlated in Portuguese in a very good translation. They adapted the jokes and everything. It was a very funny game. Since I read this thread I'm trying to find where I put it... I hope I find it.

Thanks for the explanation :amused:
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