Snowfire3
Member
Hi everyone,
Gamehouse is giving away a full version game a day. The game does come with a commercial that plays when you first load the game. Jane's Realty was the giveaway today and the commercial was a Musinex comercial, one I've seen on television. So if you can put up with the commercial, you have a free full version game. I just found out about it today.
Here is the link for Gamehouse:
Snowfire3
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Thanks Snowfire, though someone already mentioned this about five days ago. Well that's the number of games I've got free since seeing the post, Alice Greenfingers 2, Operation Mania, Supermarket Mania, Super Collaps: Puzzle Gallery 3 and today Janes Reality. Nice one. I got an advert for Phoenix University with today's game.
mosweetie53
Member
I should of read the forum earlier this week. I would of loved Operation Mania, and Supermarket Mania.. I am a sucker for time management games. Thanks so much for the info on the giveaway.
sassyladypib
Member
Hi everyone,
I am a newbie on here as far as writing in the forums. I have been visiting this site for a few months now and I really appreciate everything that goes on here. I think I come to this site before I read my email. So when I read about the games from gamehouse I went nuts. I only have one question if I may ask. How do you get to the site? I know this sounds funny but I have been glued to my computer all day trying to log on from the link above. By the way I have learned alot from this site, and some of the people who are here regularly, just by reading your comments. Thanks again
midori
Member
Hello! I just got straight on by clicking on the link above... if it doesn't work for you, just type gamehouse.com into your browser. I also look forward to checking this site... I've been following the extremely informative reviews and now giveaways by Whiterabbit since I first discovered it over a year ago. Plus I've picked up some pretty handy software knowledge and computer work-arounds by the savvy here, even tho I also started posting not too long ago.
albesir
Member
man, I wish I had seen it earlier. I'm not a big fan of time management games, but the Collapse games are horribly addictive to me, and great time wasters. I tried out Jane's Realty, and it was one of the better time management games I've seen, but I tire of them quickly. Also, I think todays free game is another of the same variety. Now I've got another free software site to check every day....XD
nnylrandyb16
Member
I'm actually having trouble installing today giveaway on gamehouse. I download the file and i try to run it but an error message just pops up
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Regarding the free games from Most Fun, do read the EULA. Follow the link below regarding a warnig about Most fun using your bandwidth to advertise:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4123
Not wanting to put a dampner on most fun but I'd be very wary if what is said in the above thread is true.
Regards
Whiterabbit
Flib Gibbet
Member
falands - I use FF3 and didn't have any significant problems. There is a pop-up window for information about the website which needs to be closed and there was a slight delay in getting it to recognise that I had registered for the site but thereafter I was able to download the game without problem.
So there's nothing intrinsically wrong with using Firefox.
My concern:
If Gamehouse is giving away a free game every day, that means that GGOTD (GameGOTD) is not doing so good.
This means, that Gamehouse won't give any software to GOTD, and this means another company trying to rival GOTD.
I'll bet that the people at Gamehouse want to rival GOTD, seeing that it is very popular.
It's good for us buyers, yet not for GOTD. GOTD has changed much in the last year. Less games, less interesting and useful programs, more spammers. That's the bad side. The good side, is that there are more moderators, more users, more administrators.
All and all, GOTD in my perspective, is failing. I just hope the site doesn't crash.
-Webmaster
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Hi Sue, (Hope you don't mind)
You have to register with the site first before you can get access to the freebies. It costs nothing. When you want to download any new ones you must be logged in. You'll need an Email and a password.
Regards
Stephen
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
It seems that a lot of the big developers and distributors are now giving away free games, but there is one big catch. They are all ad’ supported (well most are - with the exception of games from Alawar, but they are few and far between now (supposed to be monthly). Personally I can do without the adverts as I feel they are an invasion of privacy, though i don't mind the gametop games which open your browser to Gametops home page. As that gives me an oppertunity to see if any new game shave been posted. they have no in game advertising). I would much rather pay for my games than use these games; though I will be downloading some either to see if they are worth buying or those that the kids like that I know will only be played a few times then discarded when the novelty wears off.
If the practice becomes too prevalent I do believe we wont be seeing as many original or cleverly constructed games as we have in the past, but then maybe the advertisers are paying a lot of money to get into our PC's?????.
I do wonder whether the giveaway project sparked all of this off though because I really cannot remember any software houses giving away games prior to its inception. I think if the project was to fail it would be a great pity because I much prefer checking out my games without the annoying ads. This world really is starting to look like Blade Runner, lol.
Maybe if things did get really bad the game giveaway team could open the games giveaway to up and coming developers or even the better freeware that’s available. At least here the environment is safe. (Then again there wouldn’t be any profit in freeware would there :(
midori
Member
> theWebmaster... Whiterabbit made a point I was going to... that the "free" games are ad-supported, which still makes GGAOTD special and different, imo. Yes, a lot of us don't "mind" the ads being there, but face it, we'd rather they not be. But you take what you can get, when it comes to "free," tho I bet more people than you think refuse to tolerate ads at all. And gosh, I hate to see GGAOTD "crash"... it's been a thing to look forward to and a neat place to come for so many of us since it's inception. So I hope companies will still be willing to deal with GAOTD and offer their games through here. Didn't even realize GameHouse was one of them... can't recall seeing their name listed as the game of the day's site. Here's to Giveawayoftheday's ongoing health and success!
kerikaz
Member
Hi all,
Because I get the Gamehouse Newsletter I knew about the changes to their site and the "Free" game a day promotion right off. I was very excited, thinking a new or newer game would be chosen each day and it would be like GAOTD's games (ad free). Well, their first giveaway was the brand new Mortimer Beckett and the Time Paradox. WooHoo!, this is going to be awesome! However; since that first game most of what is offered are games that have been out for a long time, and in several cases available free at Mostfun or other free sites. And they are ad supported, so no different than the others.
For many of you these free daily games will be most welcome if you've been unable to buy games for financial or other reasons (I've been able to maintain one game site mbrship). Or people who have just gotten into playing casual games, these will be great to try out. I was just hoping we'd see something more recent, like we used to see here.
I don't know if they're trying to compete with GAOTD or not. I know they are part of RealArcade, and as most of you know, lots of people dropped their membership this year and went elsewhere...due to poor game quality and horrible customer service. Maybe they are just trying to gain people back through GameHouse.
nnylrandyb16
Member
gee i hope GAOFTD doesn't stop. I wake up every morning and this is one of the first sites I got to because I get excited
Alianthia
Member
I look forward to every weekend, GGOTD is my first site visited....
For any one who likes adventure games of this genre and missed it when GGOTD offered a while back..
Most fun games has just added EAST END Story.
http://www.mostfun.com/DetailsNeoARM.aspx?GameId=NeoDesk_EastSideStory
This is a fantastic game...
I bought two more of theirs at MDNA games after getting East End
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Darn it I accidentally deleted my post above when all I meant to do was correct a spelling mistake. I don't even have a copy of it either.
I’ll try and rewrite some of what I deleted as I think it is an important point, though my short term memory is appalling, so it will probably come over totally different to what I first wrote..
Personally I think ad’ supported games are annoying to the point that I'll delete them as soon as I've decided whether I'm going to buy the game or not. I'm a firm believer in buying my games if I can afford to; though I appreciate that not everyone can afford to buy any arcade games as they are probably an unnecessary luxury especially in today’s worsening economic climate; (which is probably another reason for their increase ‘I bet’).
Part of the reason I think this way is that I think it important that the developer gets as much money from the sales of his or her games as possible. Many of these small time developers plough most of their profit back into buying better tools to develop better games. Or use the money to live on while they come up with new and interesting ideas. ((You’ll find that most of the games that are sold on the big sites are actually made by small time developers, thought there are a few that do stand out like Divo games and reflexive) I happen to know that the following games were developed by a husband and wife team: Darkside, Arklight, Scavenger, Circulate, Pyracubes, Oddbox, Cubology, System Mania, Grid Lines, Word Juice and a few others, most of which are amazingly original ideas or variations on a theme with original elements. Just take the superbly crafted Darkside a sequel to the brilliant Arklight a breakout space shoot ‘Em up clone that’s fantastic to play… Then there’s another guy who made a series of arkanoids called Ultranium, of which the last two Ultranium 4 and Ultranium 5 were very different to the usual arkanoid (well Ultranium 5 was), and one more another Husband and Wife team that developed a couple of excellent and original breakout clones (yeah I know original and clone don’t sit very well together, but if you downloaded Takarin, you’d see what I menat about original. This breakout is in the form of a maze, but you can only see part of the maze at any one time. (Takamaru and Takarin - (my favorite genre is arkanoid/breakouts, so I’ve written to lots of developers suggesting specific ideas) need I say more…..
If all we end up with is some large conglomerations of game distributors who have bought up the rights to these games and then only use them to sell advertising space, then in my opinion the arcade games industry will soon die a death, mainly through selling boring games. We’re already seeing it in the release of countless clones of hidden objects, Match Three and Time Management games, most of which are so alike it makes me sick. There’s more arcade games being released on virtually a daily basis now, but hardly any of them are original ideas or already tried and tested genres with new ideas added to them, resulting in fewer original games being released (the latest Atlantis and Luxor clones are an exception as are a few of the hidden objects games all of which have added mini games and elaborate story lines includes as well as other additions – e.g. the screensavers in around the world in 80 days and Big Kahuna Reef plus the latest Atlantis game – Call of Atlantis) - I appreciate that many cannot afford the cost of more than a few games, so anything free is welcome; but I truly believe that the add supported game, which seems to be growing in popularity is going to destroy the arcade games industry as we know it.
Oddly I think that the Game Giveaway project may have been partly responsible for this happening. I do not recall any game houses offering free games prior to the inception of the giveaway project. Only Gametop, which I consider a different sort of freeware game, was present when the giveaway project started operating.
Anyway, I’d better stop my rant as I’ve not finished tomorrow’s game review yet. Got to find some You Tube videos, or shoot one myself.
One final thing, I agree with Midori in that there are probably a large number of people who wouldn’t touch these ad’ supported games. I’d also take into consideration what was written the other day about Most Funs ad supported games. I can’t find the post at the moment, but it stated in the EULA that by agreeing to the contract to use the game for free the company would be able to use your bandwidth to redirect advertising elsewhere. Now that I think is scary, and certainly an invasion of privacy. Those on capped limits would soon find themselves blocked from downloading more if they used these games. I’ve not got any of Most Funs games so cannot confirm the validity of the above and I would be very grateful to anyone who has downloaded a Most Fun game if they could confirm what I’ve said, or expand on it. You should find a copy of the EULA, usually in the HTML format within the games folder. Thanks in advance.
Hi Kerikas, I dropped my RealArcade membership over a year ago because of those reasons. I've already re purchased some the games I got throught the membership offers which is annoying (maybe I should give my old log on details away so someone can enjoy the benefits of those games (Chicken Attack, Ricochet, Timebreaker and others). I really don't like games that depend upon a games manager to work, and even find those games that have to be activated online a little annoying. One of my computers isn't connected and I've not been able to connect it for some reason, so several games I do have I cannot play such as Hong Kong Mahjong (the four player version of Mahjong) and a couple of great Garage games (Marble Madness Gold and Chain Reaction) as well as lots of others (e.g. Battlefield 2142, which requires you to log on to a server before you can play) because they require online activation.
regards
Stephen
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Oh yeah, I still think The game giveaway project is brilliant, even though I hardly bother with the games given away as there is always the occassional one that I don't already have, or that I'd like to have.
There is still nowhere else apart from abandonware and freeware games where you can get good quality games for free with no strings attached. And actually nowhere for commercial games (unless you call the inability to transfer from one computer to another once the giveaway is over a 'strings attached'). Many of the games actually are free standing, so can be moved around at will, and can even be played from removable media.
Hi, WhiteRabbit and kerikaz and some others,
I too am concerned about the practice in the games-industry. Small game design and development businesses must shut their doors or are taken over by global players.
They -like RealNetworks- churn games out like ten a penny. Not quality counts. When you know one match-3, one hidden-object, one dash or tycoon then you know the other 99 too. However, my greatest misgivings are about the disrespect of my rights as user and person. Some arguments have been discussed here by WhiteRabbit and others (Mostfun, Gamehouse, RealNet), yesterday I found one which was new to me - maybe not to you. I did not know how the game industry handles DRM.
As it is really an unreasonable demand to read all those "Notices""Privacy Policies""Terms of Use" and whatever other small prints will come, I must confess that I did not read the hole bible. Though enough to see red :(
http://www.gamehouse.com/notices
Quote:
"d) You may not use the Software in an attempt to, or in conjunction with, any device, program or service designed to circumvent technological measures employed to control access to, or the rights in, a content file or other work protected by the copyright laws of any jurisdiction.
...
5. DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ("DRMs").
The Software may include a DRM from RN or third party DRMs as plug-in components which are subject to their own license agreements. DRMs are designed to manage and enforce intellectual property rights in digital content purchased over the Internet. You may not take any action to circumvent or defeat the security or content usage rules provided or enforced by either the DRM or the Software. DRMs may be able to revoke your ability to use applicable content. RN is not responsible for the operation of a third party DRM in any way, including revocation of your content. RN is not responsible for any communications to or from any third party DRM provider, or for the collection or use of information by third party DRMs. You consent to the communications enabled and/or performed by the DRM, including automatic updating of the DRM without further notice. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless RN for any claim relating to your use of a third party DRM.
You acknowledge and agree that in order to protect the integrity of certain third party content, RN or its suppliers and licensors may provide for the Software security-related updates that will be automatically downloaded and installed on your computer. Such security-related updates may impair the Software (and any other software on your computer which specifically depends on the Software) including disabling your ability to copy and/or play "secure" content, i.e. content protected by digital rights management. In such an event, RN and/or its suppliers and licensors shall use reasonable efforts to promptly post notices on the RN web site explaining the security update and providing instructions to end users for obtaining new versions or further updates of the Software that restore access to secure content and related features."
Quote end.
...including automatic update... they may come and go into my system just as they want to ?
NO THANK YOU !
graylox
Stephen, in the meanwhile I brought your comment back LOL
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Thanks ....now I must go and sort out that darned review before I fall asleep.
Regards
Stephen
midori
Member
Stephen, thanks for your additions to the "brought back to life" original statement of yours. Review?? Must mean we're getting a game tomorrow! So write a short one and get some rest. ;)
To notblocklox... Wow! Thanks for reading some of the fine print and posting it here. And yes, I'm one of those who simply think: "blah-blah-blah... I accept." Some of that is downright scary! =8-0
nnylrandyb16
Member
CAN'T WAIT FOR TOMORROW'S GAOFTD GAME!
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