Tofu Hero Gaming

So I’ll just go on google and wikipedia and surely I’ll find lots of free to play games, come on, how hard could it be? I feel so foolish, after the extreme ease of finding and installation of Perfect World International I was feeling very good about looking for free games, I even thought it could be a really fun and interesting thing to do. Granted that was BEFORE I played Perfect World (See review for clarification). I have been searching for a good free to play game which was not a MMORPG as I am mighty sick of them as I’m sure you may have noticed I’m not exactly a fan of MMORPGs.

I found a game that looked very promising, Combat Arms from Nexon, this looked like a very nice online FPS in a similar vein to Counter Strike, something enjoyable to get the last remains of MMORPG blood out of me. As the game downloaded I looked through the screenshots and thought, it can’t look THAT good can it? Then of course screenshots of perfect world international popped into my head, those screenshots looked nice, but failed to point out the extreme monotony inherent within that game. Anyway, the download finished and I went through the usual sign up that I have since come to expect in free games so I’m going to have even more emails to ignore to death (over 600 and counting). Once I got onto the game and had registered I was met by this message:

It seems even people who make completely free games hate Europeans. Why Nexon? Why lock the game to America? It’s a free game it makes no sense to region lock it. It annoys me that with all these millions of checks the free games do whilst registering and downloading they don’t look at what country you live in BEFORE getting the game, then it wouldn’t waste time HDD space. Nexon isn’t the only one guilty of this sin, I had pretty much the exact same thing whilst trying to run O2Jam. So it seems finding and playing these free games is a lot harder than it originally seemed.

Posted by braindead_hero