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Sometimes, the people who own the copyright for a certain commercial product decide to re-release said product to the general audience as a free product. Reasons for doing so vary. Sometimes, the product is not doing well, and the people who own the rights don't want the product's community to die out and/or want to keep the product from falling into Keep Circulating the Tapes. Other times, it's being given out as a celebration of some event. A variation is when the product is only released for a certain amount of time before it stops being commercial. Another variation is when something becomes free only for a limited amount of time before it stops being free. May result in said product becoming either an Allegedly Free Game or Freemium. Compare Abandonware and Free/Libre Open Source Software. |
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Sherlock: Starting on April 1, 2022, all four seasons of the series are officially available to view on Crackle. | |
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In 2015, Hi-Rez Studio made nearly the entire Starsiege saga (exceptions being Metaltech: Battledrome the obscure spin-off Hunter Hunted and CyberStorm, the later whose publishing rights had remained with Activision) downloadable for free on the series' official website. | |
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Indian series Lamput was originally on the pay channel Cartoon Network before it was officially uploaded for free on YouTube. | |
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Likewise, Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, also by Midway, was released for free under the same program. | |
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In August 2020, Touhou Fan Music circle FELT started gradually uploading its old albums to YouTube. | |
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In September 2018, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was made free like Team Fortress above, after several months of being free only to play offline and spectate matches. The catch? Servers are now segregated between "Free" and "Prime" (paid) players, and the cost of Prime Access is twice the base price of the game when it was paid. | |
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All of The Bellflower Bunnies (however, it was later region-locked) | |
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Benesse made the 2014 Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō movie available to watch on the Japanese Shimajiro Youtube channel as part of Youtube's Anime Weekend event in November 2021. | |
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Epic then launched their own storefront to compete with Steam in 2019. They would give away up to two games weekly (and very rarely, three games). And while usually it would be indie titles up for grabs, Triple-A titles like Grand Theft Auto V and Surviving Mars have come up for grabs in the past. | |
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Beneath a Steel Sky was also released for free. | |
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PlayStation Plus members get free games that usually have been around for a year or even more than ten years before. Oftentimes the new run breathes life into the online scene. Some larger games that have been offered free include Borderlands 2 and LittleBigPlanet 2. | |
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An Untitled Story and its soundtrack were originally sold for money before Matt released them as freeware. | |
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The original The Suffering was eventually released for free, with ads embedded. | |
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The official YouTube channel for G.I. Joe began uploading full episodes of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero in 2020. G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 would soon follow, with G.I. Joe: Renegades having already taken a turn on Tubi. | |
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Dungeon Keeper Gold was given away free to all users in mid-February 2014. | |
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The original SimCity has been re-released under an open-source licence as "Micropolis". | |
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For a while, the Mektek mod group were allowed by Microsoft to re-release MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries as a free download with their Mekpaks. However, it was removed after Piranha, the new owner of the Mechwarrior IP, objects. Keep Circulating the Tapes ensues. | |
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The latter has also made its home on YouTube with the official channel having the entire series up to Power Rangers Samurai (at current), and Dino Charge. | |
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The Truman Show was temporarily available for free with ads on YouTube Movies, before reverting to a paid option. | |
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In 2004, the former members of Warzone 2100's defunct developer, Pumpkin Studios, released the game and its source code under the GNU General Public License. | |
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Sesame Street has a number of full episodes on their official YouTube channel. They initially consisted of solely episodes from the 2000s, with the exception of one 1993 episode. Since 2022, a number of episodes from more recent seasons have been uploaded. | |
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In the case of the former, The Transformers would be released in full on Hasbro Pulse's channel, Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) and Transformers: Cyberverse on the brand's official channel (with Cyberverse being released during its initial run), and most of the other entries (including Beast Wars, Transformers: Armada and Transformers: Prime's later seasons) making their home on Tubi. | |
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Run with Us Productions has uploaded much of RoboCop: The Series onto their official YouTube channel. | |
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Gore: Ultimate Soldier was re-released for free as Gore: Special Edition a few years after its initial release. While the files are still readily available, they require a user key (similar to a CD-key), which was generated by a website which no longer exists. However, the single-player can still be played by using one of the existing user keys which can be found shared online. | |
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Ready Jet Go!: In late June 2021, PBS Kids uploaded both of the show's specials for free on YouTube: Back to Bortron 7 and One Small Step. However, they're region-locked outside of the United States, but at least it's something. They were later removed in July 2022. | |
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Grand Theft Auto series: Grand Theft Auto and its sequel were commercially released games. The Windows ports of the first two games were re-released as freeware to encourage people to sign up for the Rockstar Propaganda newsletter and on Steam. Unfortunately, there were delisted on Steam for reasons unknown, although they were made downloadable from Rockstar's own website soon after. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was re-released on PC for free for a limited time to promote Rockstar's own gaming platform/launcher around mid-September 2019. |
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Disney Junior has uploaded several episodes of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse to their YouTube channel. The few they had uploaded proved to be so popular that they ultimately uploaded the entire first season. A similar strategy has since been used by some of their sister networks. | |
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The first two seasons of Blinky Bill have been officially uploaded to YouTube here. | |
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Players who had a GOG Connect account and used it to access the service in early June 2016 could download a copy of System Shock 2 to keep permanently. | |
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Angry Birds Rio was originally released on March 22, 2011 at the same price as the other Angry Birds games. However, on January 17, 2013, the game was rereleased for free, initially as part of Apple's "Free App of the Week" promotion. | |
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In 2010, Remedy Entertainment released Death Rally for free. The only part that didn't made the cut for this version is the multiplayer module. The good reception of this release eventually led to a Lighter and Softer reboot. | |
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Elite Dangerous itself would become available for free for one week on Epic's storefront to promote the launch of it's first DLC, Odyssey, in November 2020. | |
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In late 2014, Sniper Elite V2 was offered for free for 24 hours, largely to promote the upcoming release of Sniper Elite III. | |
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Every episode of The Joy of Painting is available for free on the official Bob Ross YouTube channel. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was re-released on PC for free for a limited time to promote Rockstar's own gaming platform/launcher around mid-September 2019. | |
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The original Killing Floor was distributed for free in 2011. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's World was taken off Steam due to Scott Cawthon himself admitting that the game was unfinished and had several problems, and an updated version was later released on GameJolt. Scott even offered a refund to everyone who had bought the game at the initial Steam launch, regardless of how long they played. | |
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In late August 2016, Shadow Warrior (1997) was distributed for free in order to promote the release of Shadow Warrior 2. This original version of the game was redubbed as Shadow Warrior Classic and remained a freebie while the Devolver Digital Classic Redux remaster was sold in its stead. Other stores like GOG.com (which also has Classic Redux) and ZOOM followed this trend. The only exception is 3D Realms' official rebuild, known as Shadow Warrior (Classic) (note the parenthesis on Classic) on Steam. | |
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The entire run of The Red Green Show has been uploaded for free onto the show's official YouTube channel. | |
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GOG.com have numerous examples of this, due to offering many limited-time giveaways of free games and a permanent "package" of free games that can be downloaded and enjoyed just for opening an account. There's even a community-made list of all the games that have been offered over the history of the service: Beta testers who took part in the GOG Galaxy early tests (simply signing up for the service) received a copy of the 1999 Alien vs. Predator for free to test it with. Beneath a Steel Sky was also released for free. Dungeon Keeper Gold was given away free to all users in mid-February 2014. Due to their rights to the classic Fallout games lapsing, GOG offered Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics to all users shortly before they removed the games in late 2013 (although the rights were re-acquired a year later and the games were put back up — and priced accordingly). Users who took part in GOG surveys and system tests on two occasions in 2012 could obtain the entire Realms of Arkania trilogy for free. Flight of the Amazon Queen was released for free as well. Players who had a GOG Connect account and used it to access the service in early June 2016 could download a copy of System Shock 2 to keep permanently. Tyrian, originally published in 1995, was re-released as freeware in 2004 as a gift to everyone else. It can also be found on GOG as a freeware product. A few of the Ultima games were released for free, including Ultima 0 (a.k.a. Akalabeth: World of Doom), Ultima IV, Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire and its sequel, Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams. All of these can be found on GOG. The Jill of the Jungle trilogy is available for free. (its sibling game Xargon is also free elsewhere) |
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Due to their rights to the classic Fallout games lapsing, GOG offered Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics to all users shortly before they removed the games in late 2013 (although the rights were re-acquired a year later and the games were put back up — and priced accordingly). | |
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When Origin removed The Sims 2 from it's store shelves on July 15, 2014, existing owners were given a email saying that their copy of The Sims 2 had been upgraded to The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection, containing all expansion packs and stuff packs, even if the owner hadn't obtained them yet. Later that month, Ultimate Collection could be obtained for free by inputting in a promo code. After the promotion ended, it was still possible to obtain The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection by showing proof of owning a physical copy of The Sims 2 through EA chat. This was discontinued by late 2018, making them no longer obtainable in legal form. | |
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The Sims 4 was given away for free on Origin during a franchise sale in 2018. 4 years later, EA announced that the base game itself would be free-to-play starting on October 18, 2022. | |
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The Garfield and Friends YouTube channel re-released every episode of the show up to "Lemon Aid; Hog Noon; Video Airlines", as well as the Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas specials for the franchise. | |
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Several episodes of Little Einsteins have been uploaded to YouTube for free onto the show's official channel. Disney Junior uploaded the episode "The Birthday Balloons" to their YouTube channel. |
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Mark Marek, who did the Henry and June segments on KaBlam!, posted the entire series (barring "A Nut In Every Bite!" due to a missing tape master) onto his website in 2015. As Nickelodeon's chances of releasing the show on DVD or streaming services is extremely slim due to copyright issues with some of the one-shot segments and music, this is the closest thing the show has to an official release. | |
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Championship Manager 01/02 was made freeware in December 2008, and partly as a result, it remains arguably the most popular instalment in the franchise despite being twenty years old. | |
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The Official YouTube channel for The Pink Panther has a large portion of the show's archive. | |
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The 2005 Area 51 First-Person Shooter game was another Midway title released for free with embedded ads as part of a sponsorship with the U.S. airforce. While the sponsorship has long ended, the files are still readily available online. | |
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In December of 2015, an HD remastered version of Shadow Complex was announced and given out for free for a limited time through the Epic Games Store for PC. | |
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The first Command & Conquer: Red Alert was released for free as a limited-time promotion when EA released the third title in the series. | |
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All of The Dreamstone | |
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American Girl uploaded all two seasons of their WellieWishers series on YouTube in 2020. | |
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As of December 1, 2020, the official Pingu YouTube channel, which previously uploaded only episode clips, has started uploading compilations of full episodes. However, they later started uploading compilations of clips for some reason. | |
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Comic book publishers sometimes reprint the first issue of an "Event" comic as a part of Free Comic Book Day. Ultimate Spider-Man, Brightest Day, a Justice League of America reboot, and Irredeemable are some of them. | |
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The Jill of the Jungle trilogy is available for free. (its sibling game Xargon is also free elsewhere) | |
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Users who took part in GOG surveys and system tests on two occasions in 2012 could obtain the entire Realms of Arkania trilogy for free. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Arena and Daggerfall have been released as freeware. Arena on the 10th anniversary of its original release and Daggerfall on the series' 15th anniversary. | |
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When obscure Mac video game creators Storm Impact went out of business in the late 1990s, one of the programmers leaked registration codes for the company's two biggest games, TaskMaker and MacSki, on a newsgroup. | |
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The creator of Concealed the Conclusion has uploaded it to his GitHub. | |
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WikoKiko uploaded many of the episodes of Dragon onto their YouTube channel. | |
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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee was distributed freely for a 24-hour period in August 2015. | |
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Like other online multiplayer games, Age of Conan was re-released for free after its creators discovered the miracle of microtransactions. | |
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The official Ghostbusters YouTube channel has been uploading both The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters since 2021 upon the release of Ghostbusters: Afterlife. | |
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Flight of the Amazon Queen was released for free as well. | |
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With the exception of The Kids of Degrassi Street and the Netflix-produced Next Class episodes, three of the Degrassi series - Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High (only the first season for an inexplicable reason), and Degrassi: The Next Generation - were officially made available on YouTube by DHX Media (now WildBrain) in the late 2010s. Both Degrassi High and Next Generation have made it onto Tubi in the United States at certain points, and Next Generation has its own Pluto TV channel. However, in 2022, the three series on YouTube were geoblocked in the US and other Western countries. | |
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Portal was made free for two weeks in May 2010 to promote Steam on Mac, and for a few days in September 2011 to promote the "Learn with Portals" initiative. | |
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Postal 2 got another free giveaway on GOG.com in April of 2022, to commemorate the 1.0 release of Postal 4: No Regerts. | |
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Motu Patlu, which airs on Nickelodeon India, has all of its episodes uploaded to series producer Cosmos-Maya's official YouTube channel, Wow Kidz. The spin-off Inspector Chingum, which originally premiered on Prime Video India, also got released on the Wow Kidz YouTube channel. | |
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All of Father Ted has been uploaded to YouTube onto the Dead Parrot channel. | |
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Betrayer was released for free on Gog.com in 2023, several years after disappearing from online distribution after the company that made it folded. | |
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Kong: The Animated Series has been officially released on YouTube for free by its creators, The Ocean Group and D Ocon Films Productions. You can watch the entire show here. | |
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An interesting variation of this occurred with The LEGO Movie: On November 23, 2018 (Black Friday), on uploads of the trailer for the then-upcoming sequel, viewers could watch the entire first film for free as a YouTube pre-roll advertisement. | |
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In May 2018, both Steam and the above GOG.com gave away the original Unreal over a 48-hour period to celebrate the Unreal series' 20th anniversary. | |
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Both of the Happily Never After films have also been rereleased for free on YouTube Movies with ads. | |
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Beta testers who took part in the GOG Galaxy early tests (simply signing up for the service) received a copy of the 1999 Alien vs. Predator for free to test it with. | |
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Left 4 Dead 2 was given away for free during the 2013 Steam Holiday Sale. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords got an Anniversary Edition rerelease as DSiWare in 2011 to celebrate the franchise's 25th anniversary. It was available for free download for about four months, and then gone, only available for redownload if you got it during that window. It was later briefly made available a second time for four days in 2014 to celebrate the success of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, also for free. Notably, unlike the original Four Swords, this rerelease has a single-player mode — and it's anyone's guess when, or even IF, it'll be made available again. | |
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StarCraft is available for free for whoever downloads Blizzard's Battle.net (the remaster, however, is a separate purchase). StarCraft II's multiplayer and Wings of Liberty campaign were made free on November 14, 2017. Those who already owned WoL by itself prior to October 31, 2017 could claim Heart of the Swarm for free instead. |
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Team Fortress 2 was originally a paid game (notably as part of the retail bundle The Orange Box, which included several other Valve titles), but eventually transitioned to a freemium model supported by Loot Box in 2011. According to Valve's own metrics, moving to a free-to-play model (and giving players the ability to create custom weapons, cosmetic items and hats) increased their revenue by a factor of twelve. | |
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Several cartoons have been spotted on YouTube with official channels that have episodes uploaded for free, when the show originally aired on a cable channel which usually costs money. Among these are: All of Fat Dog Mendoza. All of The Dreamstone All of The Bellflower Bunnies (however, it was later region-locked) WildBrain and its various channels have uploaded loads of shows - both animated and live action - owned by DHX Media and its subsidiaries as well as other companies. The cartoons include, but are most certainly not limited to, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Robotboy, Mona the Vampire, Bob the Builder and Mega Man (Ruby-Spears). |
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If you can find them, MechCommander, Mechcommander Gold, and Mechcommander 2 are all free to download—MicroProse is long gone, and the Mechcommander trilogy was made available before their sites shut down. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Quite a few movies/shows originally costed money to watch before they were put up for free on Youku, iQiyi, and other sites. However, this didn't last because they eventually made you pay to watch some seasons. Outside of China, some seasons were available in YouTube for free, and also includes the Bowdlerized version of Great War in the Bizzare World season and episode 341-380. At least, but except the Smart Dodging season episode 34. When the season Dunk for Victories were put on iQiyi, originally the episodes beyond episode 6 were restricted to VIP access, but this was later reversed and the entire season became free to watch for a while. But due to even the factor of dwelling popularity of the season, later the VIP restriction was put up again as Creative Power Entertaining's strategy to Win Back the Crowd and just to earn more money. |
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Brink! was permanently made free on August 2017, Steam version only, without being Freemium, although the DLC which features several new maps and features, still for sale with a price tag. | |
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Elite: Both the original game and its sequel, Frontier, were re-released as free downloads from Frontier Developments, though some wrangling is needed to get them to run on modern machines. The standalone version of Elite Dangerous' multiplayer mode, Arena, was offered for free by Steam in mid-2016. Elite Dangerous itself would become available for free for one week on Epic's storefront to promote the launch of it's first DLC, Odyssey, in November 2020. |
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While Halo 3 is now a free download for the Xbox One, you need to have an Xbox Live account to download it. | |
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Fantastic Children and the 1989 Kimba the White Lion anime, previously released by Bandai Entertainment and Geneon respectively, were rereleased for free outside of Japan (albeit sub-only in the case of the latter) courtesy of AnimeLog. | |
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent was given out free in September 2015. | |
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Angry Birds: The original game was originally paid for on iOS devices and PC. However, when it was ported to Android, the developers decided to make it ad-supported freemium. But only the Android version. The other versions are still commercial. Averted for the games released after the original, as they were available as ad-supported freeware for Android from the start. Angry Birds Rio was originally released on March 22, 2011 at the same price as the other Angry Birds games. However, on January 17, 2013, the game was rereleased for free, initially as part of Apple's "Free App of the Week" promotion. |
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All episodes of the faith-based children's series May Bukas Pa are available for free streaming on ABS-CBN Entertainment's YouTube channel. This is also the same on some of the network's past television shows, such as 100 Days to Heaven, Ikaw ay Pag-ibig, Honesto, Nathaniel, and many more. | |
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Tyrian, originally published in 1995, was re-released as freeware in 2004 as a gift to everyone else. It can also be found on GOG as a freeware product. | |
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A few of the Ultima games were released for free, including Ultima 0 (a.k.a. Akalabeth: World of Doom), Ultima IV, Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire and its sequel, Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams. All of these can be found on GOG. | |
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Toys for Bob, the creators of the Star Control franchise, released the partially ported files for the 3DO port of Star Control 2 to the fans, and it was eventually finished and officially released for free as The Ur-Quan Masters for a variety of platforms, followed in 2024 by an official release on Steam as Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters. | |
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The first Alpha and Omega film has been released for free with ads on YouTube. | |
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Also from Brazil, but better regarded, the Monica's Gang channel uploaded a feature that had been out of circulation for a while (they also have many of the regular cartoons inspired by the comic). | |
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Grand Theft Auto and its sequel were commercially released games. The Windows ports of the first two games were re-released as freeware to encourage people to sign up for the Rockstar Propaganda newsletter and on Steam. Unfortunately, there were delisted on Steam for reasons unknown, although they were made downloadable from Rockstar's own website soon after. | |
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StarCraft II's multiplayer and Wings of Liberty campaign were made free on November 14, 2017. Those who already owned WoL by itself prior to October 31, 2017 could claim Heart of the Swarm for free instead. | |
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Microsoft temporily made Crackdown free on two occassions to promote the release of Crackdown 3. They would do likewise with Crackdown 2 when the game was added to the Xbox One's backward compatibility program. | |
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Most of the Nickelodeon run of Doug has been uploaded by Studio 100 (under license from Viacom) to the Kids TV English YouTube channel. | |
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Igor has been made free to watch with ads on YouTube Movies as well. | |
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All of Fat Dog Mendoza. | |
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The entirety of Code Lyoko has been uploaded for free viewing to official YouTube channels in French and English, respectively, alongside bonus videos, music, and the Sequel Series Evolution. | |
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Sarah, Duchess of York has made most of Budgie the Little Helicopter available for free on her official YouTube channel. | |
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Once Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball's DVD sold out entirely in 2019, the director uploaded both discs' ISO files to the Internet Archive. | |
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All of the original Voltron series has been uploaded to YouTube for free by both World Events Productions via the official Voltron channel and DHX Media's Wildbrain channel. | |
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Two of Hasbro's other major properties, Transformers and Power Rangers have also dropped many of their seasons on both YouTube and Tubi. In the case of the former, The Transformers would be released in full on Hasbro Pulse's channel, Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) and Transformers: Cyberverse on the brand's official channel (with Cyberverse being released during its initial run), and most of the other entries (including Beast Wars, Transformers: Armada and Transformers: Prime's later seasons) making their home on Tubi. The latter has also made its home on YouTube with the official channel having the entire series up to Power Rangers Samurai (at current), and Dino Charge. |
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Happy Heroes: The official YouTube channel has uploaded Seasons 1-6, Seasons 10-15, and the second movie for free viewing. As of 2020-2021, the Season 10-12 episodes were unfortunately region-blocked outside of China and the playlist containing the episodes were removed (as of this day). | |
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