Money-Grubbing Square-Enix Is Now Letting Us Play Some Of Their Old Hits For Free_

Old Conventional Wisdom: Square-Enix is ripping us off left and right https://kotaku.com/its-too-bad-this-awesome-final-fantasy-is-so-insanely-p-30786501 New Conventional Wisdom: They’re, um, letting us play some of their old games for free. They’re nice people, after all. Look, Square-Enix is such a big company that they can encompass both Tomb Raider n98 and Final Fantasy. They can price-gouge and demonstrate the wonderful generosity of letting us play high-end games in our web browsers for zero dollars https://kotaku.com/square-enix-thinks-this-mobile-rpg-is-worth-30-5937592 Using Square’s new Core Online service you can play Mini Ninjas and Hitman: Blood Money in a browser right now, for free. Try it right here. (Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light as well as Tomb Raider: Underworld are coming later). There is, of course, a catch: Watching ads is better than paying, yes? You get 10 minutes of game time per ad. Though… the official Core Online FAQ contradicts that official image: How often will the ads appear? You will normally earn 20 minutes of game time for each 1 minute advertisement you view – although occasionally this may vary. Adverts will also appear during loading screens; but the load time is not artificially increased by this, and ads viewed in this way will earn you additional game time. This is all you need: And this is probably what you want to know about: How will the transition between game and advertisement be handled? During loading and when you game-time runs out, you will automatically be taken to the ad block when you earn additional game time. .. Is there a limit to the number of ads a user might watch in order to earn game time? At any point you can accumulate a maximum game time of 60 minutes; as you use this game time, you will be able to top up again by watching additional ads. … What if I don’t want to watch ads? You can always choose to skip ads by directly purchasing pp slot levels or full games. The cost of content will always be listed out on a case-by-case basis. Finally, they said the specs wouldn’t be high to play these games in your browser, and they weren’t kidding: Specs for Hitman: System Requirements Minimum: Windows XP or later Pentium 4 1.5Ghz or Athlon XP Equivalent super slot 512MB RAM DirectX 9.0c compatible video card which supports Hardware TnL and Pixel Shader 2.0 (GeForce FX / Radeon 9500 or higher) DirectX 9.0c Compatible Sound Card Windows compatible Mouse and Keyboard (Gamepads and controller are not supported) Recommended: Pentium 4 2.4Ghz or Athlon XP/64-bit equivalent 1GB RAM ATI X800 series, Nvidia GeForce 6800 series or higher video card DirectX 9.0c Compatible Sound Card, Sound Blaster X-Fi series Anyone have a problem with this? It seems pretty good, no?