Where to buy Freelancer CD?

I know the problem very well.
A while ago my CD fall out of the box, fell on the ground and ……broke. And i couldn’t find or buy a new one!!
Almost all online stores in the netherlands i have searched. Everywhere it was soled out, and they don’t get new ones.

Gladley i had 2 good friends from Germany and they arrange to buy a new original cd from Ebay.

And now i copy 5 times the cd for backup and put the cd safe in the safe
On this way i keep my original disc!

But you are right. If nobody can catch a cd anymore, how must the game survive?

It sucks but before long people will have to resort to illegal means to acquire FL.

They won’t make a new one dude. Its not for a console and isn’t worth their time.

Agreed. If it’s not an Xbox title or something they can make an enormous profit out of… they won’t even consider it.

NeXoSE wrote:

Forsaken wrote:
It sucks but before long people will have to resort to illegal means to acquire FL.

Hey, Forsaken, you remind me. I just searched ed2k network with keyword “Freelancer”, but unfortunately, only ~>20 source related FL CD image. (I got lot of “TNG NO CD” lol). Thats may means, not too many people got FL in illegal ways.

BTW, why Modders not share mods on ed2k? that is a good way to share files on Internet.

Let’s back to talk some lawful things. I mean, If is possible to talk Microsoft or the publisher to continue make new Freelancer CD?

edk is outdated

I know there is a pretty good-seeded torrent file for the FL CD.

Save your pennies, on Amazon US it’s obviously become a collectors item, check those prices rofl
http://www.amazon.com/Freelancer-Pc/dp/B000085AHJ

Bit more reasonable here: (Xarian, pay attention lol)
http://au.shopping.com/xPO-Freelancer

Also here: http://www.terragame.com/cdgames/sims/freelancer/index.html

And here: http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/games/pid/7376420/a/Freelancer.htm

And also here: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=2187489

And lastly a couple from the UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B0007OWNHW/ref=asc_df_B0007OWNHW539856?ie=UTF8&condition=new&tag=pgsoftware-mp-21&creative=7978&creativeASIN=B0007OWNHW&linkCode=asm

Quite a few on eBay obviously…

Oh wow… someone actually cares… those reviews are pretty cool too nice to know there’s a place to buy a few “backups”… or pressies… lol

and how in the world did it get to that price on amazon?? OMG

The “buy” links on Microsoftpage are dead
With a bit luck Freelancer will be “abadoneware” (freeware)

I bet on most sites it’s buyable.
But if you order it, it’s out of sale.

Atleast i have that experience in the netherlands.
Searched a few evenings to get one.
Sent emails to stores if they still have one or can order one.
All answers where no… we are sorry, but we can’t get any of that anymore.

Okay, nobody want’s to hear this, so…

:whispermode on:
The game is antique
:whispermode off:

@ Syd

Not all their links are dead, in fact they all work but out of the shops listed claiming to sell FL, only Walmart actually does.

@ NeXoSE

No offence but what the hell do you expect for a game that’s 7 years old, or soon will be? It’s obvious it’s going to more and more difficult to buy a copy as those who have actually taken a reality check here have already pointed out. It’s time to get heads out of clouds and drop back into the realworld. Microsoft don’t give a rats arse for this game anymore. Get used to that fact, FL is dying, slowly. There’s a few thousand hardcore fans out there, me included who just love the game and won’t let it die. Forget forcing Microsoft to print up more cd’s, not going to happen, ever. Get used to it. Same with FL2, not gonna happen and i wish people would finally realise that but that’s for another topic. I suggest you buy a copy while you still can because it won’t be long before it’s extinct. It’s just how it is.

And to be honest I’m waiting for the point where the game becomes unavailable in most of the world. Why? Because then we enter a gray area that gives us additional flexibility to promote the game.

If you cannot legally purchase a copy of the game… Just look at oldie games and how they’re handled most of the time.

So - shouldn’t some of you entrepreneurial types go and buy the copies that remain and store them for selling on when posterity ends?

Ther’s no way microsoft ic going to sell anoterh freelancer CD. They don’t have the brains for that. It’s a mass market ecconomy. Ths they have the copywrite, And if they can’t make another billion $ on it they won’t let someone else make $50 on it. They could have made a sequel and got rich all over again. But they didn’t have the brains to do that. Most corporate execs are not that smart after all. their only skill is counting money, And some time sthey can’t do that well either. look what they did with mario bros. they sold three different versions. Talk about making money! Why can’t eddison Trent fall into some new adventure and face new dangers? Who wouldn’t want to buy into that? I know I would. A new storyline would interest me far more than new ships and weapons. After all there’s more to RPGs than flying and shooting. It’s the story that keeps you wanting to get to the nex lavel in the game. You sit on the edge of your seat hopping beat the next challenge. And when you’ve done that you look forward to the next! Another game I’d like to see done agian is Tachyon. I’d still be playing that if I haden’t lost my product code. And who wouldn’t want to see Jake Logan embark on a new and dangerous adventure? Maybe he could return to Mars and fight evil there. Or go to the unknow reaches of space with the Bora. Wouldn’t that be great?

Well for a start you’d have to wrestle Jake Logan (Bruce Campbell) off of the tv series “Burn Notice”. For those of you who don’t know, he did the voice for the hero, Jake Logan. I bet he’d charge a lot more now as well. There is a free remake of Tachyon being done using the Freespace 2 engine if i’m not mistaken, check it here: http://fringespace.org/

As to more Freelancer, you may or may not know, FL2 was being developed for the XBOX so nomal pc players would have had no chance of playing it. Thankfully it was dropped. I agree a nice new shiny FL would be cool, with a new story but how many times can you play the same storyline over and over? Juni’s arse would just simply not look as good after the 1235th play through.

Get on Youtube and search for Freelancer 2 demo…