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Revision as of 16:48, 22 December 2010
Shareware is a software marketing concept where an incomplete or time-limited version of a program is released to entice people into buying the full (registered) version. Doom and Heretic were both initially released as shareware, each containing only the first respective nine-level episode in the unregistered version: Doom: Knee-Deep in the Dead and Heretic: City of the Damned.
Part of the reason Doom II was not given a shareware release, according to John Carmack, was that "[a] lot of people consider themselves to have "finished DOOM" when they just finished the shareware episode."[1]
Notes
- ↑ Doomworld.com (1999), Interview with John Carmack, (question 15). Retrieved on April 11, 2008.
External links
- Doom: Knee-Deep in the Dead v1.9 (and text file), at the id Software FTP site.
- Heretic: City of the Damned v1.2 (and text file), at the id Software FTP site.
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- Shareware Wikipedia article