Uhh... Bittorrent... or anything else that can download that isn't FP? From the looks of it, he can save precious hours downloading the demos when they're released by downloading them beforehand. There's no way that's worth $40 per year. It's fine if you have nothing better to be doing than sitting and waiting for demos to be unlocked, but otherwise, it's utterly pointless.
The worst part is that the more people pay for small services like this, the more and more we, as gamers, are going to be expected to shell out for little things that cost nothing. FP has people paying them to reduce the stress on their servers when big demos come out by spreading out the load.
First: Maybe you don't remember what Fileplanet was like before, when it was all free. It was an awful mess, with waits for like half a day.
Second: Bittorrent is for thieves and brats with no jobs. When you use it to download a demo before it goes live, then you're stealing, even if it is something free.
When did kids on the internet think it was their god-given right to get everything they want the second they want it, no questions asked? *sigh*
But you're probably right, I bet maintaining thousands of terabytes of information's worth of servers, 24 hours a day 7 days a week, while keeping their website constantly updated with news and new information on upcoming demos and mods almost every other day...probably doesn't cost a dime and is in fact really easily maintained for free.
How dare they ask for two weeks of an average 13-year-old's allowance a year...everything should be free and given to you right away!! Hand-delivered, even!! /sarcasm
Other demo download sites are one thing, but when you start complaining that you can torrent the thing early and for free, well...nobody makes you pay for Fileplanet, man. You just have to wait your turn.
Either way...Supreme Commander, Enemy Territory, and Vegas are going to be really great demos. Ought to be a good change of pace after that crap BF2142 junkpile.
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