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Retail Descent 3 still available and its less than $8!

http://bigdaddysoftware.com/descent3.html

$10.90 for D3 and Mercenaries at GoGamer.com, including their standard 2nd-day shipping.

http://www.gogamer.com/cgi-bin/GoGamer. ... ew/001DES3

$5.95 here and just received mine, fast delivery. Disc one blewed up when I tried to re-install so I re-purchased the schmear.

http://discountsoftware.zoovy.com/c=ibV ... t/DESCENT3

$4.95

http://www.chipsbits.com/itemdesc.asp?i ... EIR&eq=&Tp

the chips & bits guys were cool when I dealt with them in the past. I would recommend them and their price is frkn cheap.

x2 on the guys @ chipsandbits. They threw in some free copies when we placed an order for ChicagoLAN.

Let me be a bit of an itch here.

OK who is actually pocketing this money? Sure aint Outrage. Vertigo? Interplay? I doubt it. Guess it just those stamping out the CDS.

I ask this because of the subject of the thread. Is D3 officially an "abandoned work"?

I have no problem in still purchasing if someone is still legitimately making money, based on a copyright or trademark.

Failing that, I think it should be plastered all over the P2P networks as ISOs.

EDIT: Hmmm. A quicky search on eDonkey says it already is.

Nos if there is money switching hands someone, somewhere, is making money. why steal what is basically free? there is no "robin hood" effect to that, just down right greed and laziness.

shell out the $5 ya tight a$$ bastiges.

It's usually stock that has been paid for in the past.

I assure you that nobody is stamping out CDs for Descent anymore. What is for sale is overstock. Chances are whatever money was to be made was made years ago and the retailers are just trying to cut their losses and dump the leftovers.

True. Interplay originally received money for all of these copies when the retailers initially purchased them; now that they're trying to get rid of the extra copies they have, any money you spend is going to said retailers. I don't see any problem with that, seeing as how they were the ones who bought copies in the first place.

Nosferatu: D3 was pirated a week before its release. I know this for a fact because a buddy of mine on Kahn released it on his Finger server.

OK who is actually pocketing this money? Sure aint Outrage. Vertigo? Interplay? I doubt it. Guess it just those stamping out the CDS.

These guys bought it from Interplay and Interplay stamped out the CDs.

Pug: as you saw in the other thread, this doesn't necessarily apply when you're talking the Linux version... couldn't find it mirrored anywhere, and hardly anybody sells it cause it's *out of print.* Windows version, I'd say buy a copy. Linux version, good luck finding one.

That's what we have to deal with cause we're hating on Bill. I'd rather burn a copy of Linux D3 than install Windows on a computer I built.

By the way, I "diff'ed" the hog files in the WIndows and Linux versions, they're the same (d3.hog, extra.hog, and extra13.hog which is copied over from Merc anyway). I don't know what else you'd need to run it, I'll have to try it and see. Okay, maybe I *am* a little curious.

Most Linux versions of games use the same .pk3 files (or whatever) from the Windows version, like Quake3, Doom3, UT2K4 and RTCW. For some reason they decided to release D3 as a separate game. Weird.

BTW all of you, dont get me wrong.

Please read the fourth paragraph in my post

We actually plan to provide the files for the Linux version up on Descent3.com. I just need to find out which files are different and find someone who has them.

Hm, who is "we" ?

"we" is I and Matt Toschlog.

Come on, tell Mr. Toschlog to hit up the DBB once in a while and show us that he still cares about his brainchild.

I'm not his boss.

Did I say tell? I meant persuade.

I don't personally see a problem with putting up the Linux-secific files online. You can download the full Linux executables for *most* games and use them with your legal Windows copies (which I have done). If the game were new, I'd say no, but come on. This is going on 10 years in the hole.

Somebody somewhere is still stamping out CD's of WinD3, but the supply of the increasingly rare LinD3 is not. And yes, there is *ONE* copy of LinD3 on Amazon, not stocked by them. For $20. I bought mine on eBay for the same price, because there was no other option.