I checked it and Albion looks good. I must try to play it. Now i have problem - need to choose from 3 games - KotOR, Star Control 2 and Albion :) But it's good think to have more options :)
Does Albion have freeware status?

Even if a game is available to download in the "dark corners of the net", it is not (usually)freeware. GOG.com also frowns on links such as the above, so do refrain from posting it. I won't tell you not to get it from there, but be aware that "Abandonware" is not a legal term, it's mostly a description.

It is in fact still sold at Amazon for $114.99 :gasp:
http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Byte-Albion/dp/B00188BNHC/ref=sr_1_15?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1338367929&sr=1-15

Woops. I edited my previous post - link is deleted. Sorry for that, I willl be more patient with freeware status.

Just to confirm and eleborate on what JMich said. Strictly speaking, there is no "freeware status" (for videogames). Even if a game has been released as freeware, the rights still belong to the rights holder. So eg. You can get Ultima IV for free here, but you cannot trade or copy it by yourself, or put in on your homepage. Most companies don't give a rats ass about that, so the "established practice" has led to terms like abandonware etc.

But legally, putting Ultima IV on a torrent is the same as putting Diablo 3 on a torrent.

I don't want to critize you or anything, just warn you for the future.

Edit:

Whoops, appearently Public Domain is something like "freeware status" we don't have that in Germany, so I can't really comment on that.

Anyway, Albion isn't PD (sadly), only Abandonware. Which in my book makes it free to pirate anyway.

We don't? Back on the Atari ST there was lots of software akin to what is mostly called Freeware on the PC, and everyone, including the Germans who created and offered it, called it Public Domain software. Didn't realize this was actually a misnomer over here ...

Or £19.99, which is a pretty reasonable price, and as the OP lives in Poland, it would probably be more convenient to order it from amazon.co.uk. The game is well worth that price, and a fare bit more, but not $115!


Go with Albion, if you can live with the outdated graphics & controls, there is a lot to like about that game. KoTOR is probably the easiest to find for a good price though. If you decide to continue with the KoTOR series, make sure to get the fan patch for KoTOR 2, it turns a decent but flawed game into a really good game.

Well, we have something extremly similar

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain#Public_Domain

(which explains it better than I ever could)

So maybe my post was somewhat misleading. As with just about everything when it comes to digital stuff, the legal side is a first class royal clusterfsck.

I gave up on un fanpatached KoTOR 2, so I don't know exactly how much it fixes, but it fixes a lot. It restores plenty of cut content (that was in the code, but never finalized) and also fixes plenty of bugs.

Ok. I'll have to investigate this, thanks. It is good news, and may make me re-play Kotor2 some day. I was appreciating it quite a bit, until the sudden fastforward.

Not quite, but nearly. :)

There was a "restoration project", but that was never finished.
The finished one is "restored content mod" and seems to still be a work in progress, currently at patch version 1.7.

As far as I know, they're not doing new voice acting or stuff like that, but rather piecing together the abandoned work. I played through with 1.1. or something and it was pretty great already.

Agree. It might be great (I haven't played it myself), but I feel $115 is just crazy.

Pretty reasonable. There is one for £25 that includes the box. It would be an insta buy for me if i could actually buy it, but Amazon doesnt ship to Brazil (i think the US Amazon does ship books, but not games). Ebay also doesnt have any right now.