Talk:Shareware

Someone needs to add in info about Strife's shareware version. I would assume... - Damien Solta

shareware doom
how come that shitty shareware version came on my three different CDs? HOW??? i don't have the full version. why is that? i wanted the full version!!!!
 * 1) This is a talk page; kindly sign your edits on talk pages with four tildes ( ~ ).
 * 2) Talk pages are for discussions of how to improve the article, not of the article's subject generally. However, you raise a point that might be worth including in the article.
 * 3) If the CDs' descriptions didn't make it clear that the Doom you were getting was the shareware version (which is the only edition which may legally be distributed without authorisation from id), you were probably ripped-off. However, the registered / retail version may (I believe) be eaily and cheaply purchased from id, or from Steam; in the latter case, download your game, then download and install one or more source ports of your choice (I favour ZDoom) and copy the WADfiles to the ports' installation directories. This will enable you to play the games without having to get permission from Valve Software. -- RobertATfm 11:45, July 3, 2012 (UTC)
 * oh, i'm sorry robert. i am angry because NEVER had the full version of doom (even though I paid my fucking money for those CD-ROMS, some of them said that the games were demos). but i got it by just googling DOOM.WAD. but dont buy doom 1, it sucks and costs too much. and i can't play mods for it because shareware version is so shitty and doesn't play mods. however if i play with ZDoom source port, it works some mods but i'm only limited to first episode. i prefer more doom 2, has more mods than 1. and has more monsters and weapons too. so yeah, get that one. 79.117.191.247 10:24, July 13, 2012 (UTC) i used the four tidles and by the way, how come doom registered wasn't available on CD-ROMS that i have bought or even exists!!! in fact i have doom 2, heretic, hexen, strife, duke nukem 3d and quake full versions? but only doom shareware with about 3 different versions? what the hell?
 * As the "Registered" in the name implies, "Doom Registered" was only ever available as a licenced (registered) version of the shareware Doom; that is, only directly from id, not as a retail product. When Doom was finally released as a retail product (in the light of the success of Doom II, which was only ever retail), it was upgraded with a fourth episode, and remaned "The Ultimate Doom". This version is still available, from id for US$20, which I think is about £10 at the current exchange rate (I don't know if this price includes physical media), or from Steam for £3.59, about US$8. — RobertATfm (talk) 12:00, July 13, 2012 (UTC)


 * but this does not make sense, i mean look what i saw at wikipedia about heretic (exactly same information about registered doom)
 * "The original edition of Heretic was only available through shareware registration (i.e. mail order) and contains three episodes."
 * but i have the registered version of heretic (1.0 or 1.1, can't remember) and it has the fully working main 3 episodes. and i have that one in one of my CD-ROMS which i'm playing on doxbox.
 * so that means i am able to find registered doom and/or ultimate doom on one of my CD-ROMS? is this possible? i will look soon into them as now i'm busy with something and they are dusted and well hidden which require me to look deeper to find them.
 * and yeah, its annoying to have shareware version of doom because can't run mods and i want to play the goddamnit doom the way id did from doomworld forums but does not work on shareware version. (FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-)
 * 86.124.219.175 15:37, July 14, 2012 (UTC)