Dr Who Adventure game now available
Someone at BBC has made a boo boo lol
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/theadventuregames/download/cityofthedaleks
Its not suppose to be available till Saturday but its up on the site for download. Folks in the US won't be able to download it until July.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/theadventuregames/download/cityofthedaleks
Its not suppose to be available till Saturday but its up on the site for download. Folks in the US won't be able to download it until July.
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Its free in the UK but as you said there will be a pay charge for the US.
Edit: What do you mean license fees?
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In the UK, we pay £145 annually per household for a TV license. This funds all the BBC channels, and the BBC radio channels. In return, programmes are aired without advert breaks (only trailers for programmes appear between programmes), and the money has also been used to fund the digital switchover. This TV license fee is compulsory if you own a TV in the UK.
I find it kind of odd that you can not own a TV (and not pay the licence fee) and just watch a lot of BBC content on iPlayer... but it's the people who own TVs who fund that service.
Actully I think it says something somewhere on BBC iPlayer that your not allowed to watch it without one. Well that or it was just talking about the live feed.
That would just be the live feed. From the TV licensing people:
And from the BBC iPlayer terms and conditions:
It's not purchasing the channel, it doesn't matter whether you want to watch the BBC or not - it's a fee you pay just for owning a TV.
Anyway, just completed the first episode. It turned out much better than i expected, but i does focus a little too much on the stealth side. Here's hoping the next episode features more puzzles and running!
There are maybe twenty free channels in America and the rest you have to pay for. So if you want to watch most TV, you have to pay for cable. I used BBC as an example because BBC is one of the many channels that we have to pay for in order to watch it. I guess I was saying that in America we would still have to pay to watch Doctor Who with a cable subscription and then also have to pay again if we want to play the game.
Or, you could, y'know, use a proxy. Like some of us. *whistles*
If only there was some way we in America could get the games...
That's the biggest load I've ever heard. There's no particular difference between british internet and us internet, so why can't people not-in-the-uk download it? this is just going to encourage piracy. Even if they made it cost money for US citizens but they could buy it on the same day, there wouldn't be as much piracy as there is going to be now.
*snip*
All Downloads
All available Adventure Games downloads are listed below.
The download should take around 10-20 minutes. The Mac version will be available from June 15.
When the download window appears, click Save to save the game installer file to your computer. You can choose where to save the file - the Desktop is a good choice. When the download is complete, go to your Desktop (or wherever you saved the file) and double-click on the Installer to install the game.
City of the Daleks
Episode Two
Coming Soon.
*snap*
Well this is what it says if you live outside the UK
"Outside the UK
If you live outside the UK, the first Adventure Game will be available to purchase in early July. We will have more information shortly on release dates and where you can buy them, so watch this space!
If you are in the UK and are seeing this message, you may need to contact your ISP. Please see the Help section below."
(Though curiously Hulu and suchlike work without issue in Hong Kong - It's just Europe they hate
Regardless, I've just finished downloading and I'll let you know what I think when I'm done.
With the IP-based approach, UK citizens who don't pay the license, foreigners visiting or residing in the UK, and anyone using a proxy server will get the game for free. Likewise, UK license payers temporarily residing abroad will not get access. That hardly seems fair.
If the intention behind the download restrictions is to make the game free for license payers, then they should implement it that way, not just use a Geo IP filter.
Anyway. My verdict? 6/10.
It's very short (it took me an hour), far too much emphasis on stealth (seriously), dry voice acting (as I predicted), mini puzzles were very simple (felt like a flash game half the time) and it's way too easy to get killed (I died twice, and I'm an 'expert gamer').
But hey, what do you expect from a free game?
Anyways, whatever happened to the "You can literally walk into the tardis and see it's bigger on the inside, without load screens"feature that triggered the BBC to choose Sumo as the dev? The TARDIS was locked for almost the entire episode, and it certaintly wasn't explorable.
thats it I quit Im gona find out how it ends on youtube or summit
I really cant do it i been on the first one for hours! this would make a very boring tv episode.
Because the BBC (including this game presumably) is funded by the TV Licence fee that peeps in the UK pay, so in essence we've already paid for it. Boom!!
It's the easiest solution to something that's new ground for the BBC at this time, asking for TV Licence details would be very hard to check and timely so the service to the public would be a bit poo. Some non licence payers will get it surely, but non licence payers are watching TV right now, end of the day they get caught and end up with a hefty fine. Most people pay their TV licence down the local post office, it's just not equipped for the digital landscape
TL;DR - TV Licence is hard to track digitally
The Doctor Who website is aimed at children, as are these games (you#ll realise this when you play it), so having such a strict security system to download the games would lock most children out from playing it.
They've done it in a manner that tries to stop the people that shouldn't be getting it for free from getting it while making the whole thing unnoticible for the young audience.
Seriously though, I didn't realise Doctor Who was aimed at people of the young persuasion.
Heck, I sometimes forget that children even exist.
Although Dr Who is enjoyed by many adults all over the world, the creators of the new series have been very careful to make sure that it's primarily a show for minors, what with the action figure and clothing merchandise etc.
Find it odd that you can't do that puzzle though. There's no time limit, so you can go as slowly as you like, and you can drop and pick up the item as many times as you like, so I shouldn't have imagined it would be all that hard to do.
The trickiest puzzle, for me, was the one where you have to match symbols, but that's mostly because I can't tell one symbol for another. Oh well!