I bought it about a week after it stopped being free lol, got it for about $5 iirc. I’m constantly surprised that a company like Microsoft is continuing to support a game I paid $5 like a jillion years ago lol, one of the few “wins” a guy can get these days.
Same; I was one of the first buyers. Got a few people interested in the game. It’s wild to imagine now, but at that time nobody had heard of it, obviously. Which meant it was an uphill battle to get them to play it, because ‘the graphics sucked’.
I put thousands of hours into it. It’s still the best value for money game, ever.
Tried looking the receipt up out of curiosity, but it was before 2010, so it would have been on my old hotmail account. Managed to get logged into that, but Microsoft has deleted all my old emails, so that’s unfortunate.
As far as looking online, I see a few places where people are having this exact same $5 / $10 debate, but neither side seems to have proof.
At this point, I’m just gonna say you’re probably right, lol.
I bought it about a week after it stopped being free lol, got it for about $5 iirc. I’m constantly surprised that a company like Microsoft is continuing to support a game I paid $5 like a jillion years ago lol, one of the few “wins” a guy can get these days.
Same; I was one of the first buyers. Got a few people interested in the game. It’s wild to imagine now, but at that time nobody had heard of it, obviously. Which meant it was an uphill battle to get them to play it, because ‘the graphics sucked’.
I put thousands of hours into it. It’s still the best value for money game, ever.
I think the lowest it ever was is 10 bucks. That‘s what I paid in alpha and in nearly 15 years I‘ve never heard of it being as low as $5.
It’s very possible I’m misremembering.
Tried looking the receipt up out of curiosity, but it was before 2010, so it would have been on my old hotmail account. Managed to get logged into that, but Microsoft has deleted all my old emails, so that’s unfortunate.
As far as looking online, I see a few places where people are having this exact same $5 / $10 debate, but neither side seems to have proof.
At this point, I’m just gonna say you’re probably right, lol.