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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]], and [[Hexen]] were all both initially released as shareware, with Doom and Heretic both 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]]. Later, all three games in the shareware release were brought together in a pack called the "Doom Triple Pack," where the player gets to select Doom, Heretic, or Hexen to play in the shareware release.
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), [http://www.doomworld.com/interviews/int7.shtml Interview with John Carmack], (question 15). Retrieved on April 11, 2008.</ref>