Does the free version of this game still have Starforce on it? On the page it says to download the patch right after the link to the game but I'm not sure if this is meant to imply that the free version still has Starforce. Maybe I'm just being stupid. I'm also a little nervous about clicking some of the links on this website as my browser has recently started behaving funny after clicking some links.
Topic on Talk:Area 51 (2005)
The free version had ads in it, so it had to connect to the servers with the ads before you could play the game.