While waiting for US release, Rise of Flight's core-game is now free.

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Originally Posted by kimosabi

Don't worry. Soon you'll have to pay a fee just to fire up a game. Just because you didn't read the License Agreements over 9000 pages. Gaming industry has surpassed music and movie industry. Wonder how.

Doubt it. Their model is quite clear now: pay for the components rather than the base game. It is just a natural (like it or not) extension of the DLC model so making it harder to access the base game would be daft. Will be interesting to see how well this works - good on them for having the courage to try something new though.