Re: Freeware, shareware, or both
Shareware is typically a free download but time or feature limited until you hand over some cash. Some titles like massive-multiplayer game clients with a trial period almost fit this model, although I doubt most people would think of them as shareware. Most demos and multimedia related to commercial games are not shareware.
Added a bit of clarification: Some game demos are glorified trailers - you can watch, maybe interact, but you cannot play. Some demos are feature limited versions of full games - maybe you can play the first level of a game that has 30 levels. However, unlike many shareware titles, one doesn't download a key to unlock the full game. Instead one uninstalls the demo, goes out to the store and buys the software as new. I suppose that is what distinguishes playable game demos from shareware, but I accept there is a grey area there.
Maybe something like GameSpy's
http://www.fileplanet.com/ is similar to your site, albeit perhaps with slightly more bias towards patches and modifications. That is listed in Freeware/Directories at the moment. 'Directories' has a few slightly different uses at the moment that we may need to iron out internally
. It is perhaps worth mentionning that video games freeware, shareware and some of the platform categories have been evolving as part of a long-term reorganisation over the last 12-18 months.
