What Happened to free game guides?

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#1 thedarkherb
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Hey gamers,

Just a quick question about gamespot pdf guides.

A couple of months ago, I was Happily downloading pdf guides to my hearts content. Now, when i go to download a guide, it tells me that i have to be a gamespot plus member for access to PDF guides.

Why have gamespot started charging?

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#2 caddy
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I think that has been the case for a good while now. Anybody could access the guides online, but you needed to be a subscriber to download them.
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#4 AndreSegers
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I'm still relativley new here, but it's to my understanding that while the online guide has always been free, the downloadable PDF has always (or at least, was supposed to) require a GameSpot Plus account. Sorry for any confusion.
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#5 megagood
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The PDFs of game guides are usually a perk for our Total Access users. From time to time, an advertiser will sponsor the game guides, making the PDFs free for all users for a period of time, usually a month. You probably were accessing during a period when the PDFs were sponsored. Hope that clears things up for you!
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