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'''Shareware''' is a software marketing concept where an incomplete or time-limited version of a program is released free of charge or for a nominal distribution fee, with encouragement to further distribute, in order to entice people into buying the full (registered) version. [[Doom]] and [[Heretic]] were both initially released as shareware, each containing only the first respective nine-level [[:Category:Episodes|episode]] in the unregistered version: [[Knee-Deep in the Dead|Doom: Knee-Deep in the Dead]] and [[City of the Damned|Heretic: City of the Damned]].
Part of the reason [[Doom II]] was not given a shareware release, according to [[John Carmack]], was that "[a] lot of people consider themselves to have 'finished DOOM' when they just finished the shareware episode."<ref>Doomworld.com (1999), [httphttps://www.doomworld.com/interviews/int7.shtml Interview with John Carmack], (question 15). Retrieved on April 11, 2008.</ref>
In the same vein, both [[Hexen]] and [[Strife]] received only small three- to four-level demo releases rather than full-blown shareware versions, demonstrating that the concept had more or less completely fallen out of favor with the game industry by 1995.
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