Ad supported AAA games for free!

Fileplanet has Farcry, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and Rayman Raving Rabbits for free. These Ubisoft games are all ad supported (I could not find a perma-link on fileplanet, so thanks Kotoku). The ads appear on the title screen, loading screen and death screens for ten seconds each (at least for Farcry). Not too bad considering they're free. Farcry still retails for 20 bucks.

I've been a long time supporter of ads in video games. I've always considered it an interesting alternative to pricing games high. The same way broadcast TV can give you excellent tv programming (for the most part) for free.

Alternatively, more advertising support in newly developed games gives developers more funding. This allows the developers to concentrate on producing quality games instead of buckling in to publisher time line demands.

Please support Ubisoft's decision to release games for free with Advertising support. A positive reaction to this in the gaming community will only bring about more free games as other publishers experiment with the same format.