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   jgf
   Member

   I post here since I can no longer post in the comments section.

   For years you have warned us about downloading games from MPC. Now you are getting games from them; games which contain the very things you warned us about all these years.

   "Instead, why not tell me what you think about the game and how it could be improved instead of complaining about the methods the giveaway team are using to get more games..."

   But these topics are interrelated. If I decide not to download a game because of the required procedures or because the download version will hijack my browser, shouldn't the developer/distributor be as interested in that as in comments on the game itself? (When you buy a house you consider things such as proximity of schools or shopping, things which have no bearing on the quality of the house, but will certainly have bearing on your decision to purchase it.)

   Today's game sounds interesting, but it's too irritating to remember to terminate by killing the process in task manager rather than exiting "normally", lest I sit there twiddling my thumbs waiting for Firefox to load just so I can close it before continuing work.

   I appreciate all the work this site has done to bring us games over the years, but you are transforming into the sites you claimed to be superior to in the past.

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   Philipgreenwood
   Member

   Philip here from Canada. Spellweaver. I did not enjoy playing this one. Its Giveaway for today but I Downloaded problem free 2 weeks ago. I couldn't get past the first card game challenge (Moderator- mentions this as well). It does have good graphics and other great qualities. For me became a No, because not simple and seems to be so many different games in one. I decided I didn't want to cast spells anyway. On GGameSite, I pressed red Join and win button and then the green button to Download came up. Yu can download it free- no need to win one.. The Site doesn't make this clear and people are confused. Most could do well to read Moderators comments.. on the other hand why not Post; even if others have already said the same thing. Good luck for those who enjoy this Genre..

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Hi Philip, Actually what you are getting if you follow the process to its conclusion is a deck of cards that isn't available in the free game, thus enhancing your game play. It's similar, but not as large as the two paid for dlcs (£14.99/$19.99 each) that are available for the game.

   To jgf, I've only just seen your post of two months ago. If you are referring to my warnings, they were not warning not to download the games from MPC. I actually have no issues with MPC though personally I no longer download from them unless I require a game to check out for review, then it is deleted. All I do is warn the community to be on the look out for those check boxes to make sure they check them so as not to have toolbars and home page changes take place. I've never warned the community not to download the games from MPC. If I was warning them I'd actually not mention them at all, yet virtually every week that we have received an arcade game I've always posted a link to MyPlayCity if the game is available from there. That is nothing like a warning not to download.

   Everyone has the right to complain. All I've tried to do so many times over the last several years is explain that constructive complaints about the game and not the processes would help to attract more developers, whereas general complaints will just come over very negatively and ultimately reduce the number of developers interested in giving games away. It seems my predictions have come true as hardly any community member has bothered to post constructive comments about the games we've been given over this past 10 years.

   I've occasionally posted statistics on how many constructive comments have been posted about any game and generally it lies between 0.001% to 0.002% of the community that have downloaded the games.

   It really saddens me to see the site in this way. I'm still hopeful that things will improve, but if we continue in the way it's been i.e hardly any comments about the actual game and loads of comments about how the site is no longer giving decent games, or other complaints then I think things will just degenerate further.

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   jgf
   Member

   Lol, perhaps I could have been more clear; your warnings were about installing (remember to uncheck those boxes) not downloading.

   Those statistics are, unfortunately, quite believable. I heard there were typically tens of thousands of downloads for a game yet the comments section usually had a few dozen comments, good and bad.

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   Philipgreenwood
   Member

   Military Join and win.. I gave it a shot- or a shoot ,,, ter.. Stategy and Tactics Wargame edition.. I know all are turn based game.. All seem good. . System requirements are good as well- low to normal. Moderator has a very good full review on GameGOTD , read it., like I do every week.. Thanks

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   Philipgreenwood
   Member

   I Heard about a Military Card based game (Like Spellweaver) Called Battle of the Bulge and something about Nuts. Which as we all know was the American Generals response to If he wanted to Surrender - as in are yu ... a very famous word..This seems like a game to get just for the real scenes from 1944 battle.. During this time period it was also very important to remember the Password.. Your life literally depended on it. I forgot my microsoftee Account one yesterday- but they sent me some codes so I got fixed..My uncle passed away last week he was a WW2 airforce veteran.. now we can't ask him about this battle, but if yu know a vet still around talk to him or her.. bye all..

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   mikiem2
   Moderator

   My uncle passed away last week he was a WW2 airforce veteran.. now we can't ask him about this battle, but if yu know a vet still around talk to him or her.. bye all..

   Condolences on your uncle.

   Lots of WWII vets won't talk about it -- if you know one, maybe tread gently if you do ask.

   It was a dark period in history where even today you have the official government version, & the version they didn't want to publicize that the fighting men & women saw. Most of those in the services during WWII never saw action... my dad was stuck in a Navy desk job while they tried to convince him to be a navigator on a bomber, so he spent most of his time saying FU since he was always deathly afraid of flying [never did get on a plane in his 85 years]. My uncle was a Seabee, who spent the war in England. My father-in-law saw action, threw his purple heart in the ocean off Greenland, and if anyone asked him about WWII, his answer was generally in the form of a right cross.

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   Philipgreenwood
   Member

   TY,.. I do know what you mean by "What they saw", yes I agree. I saw a german game today of Panzer claws . Anybody know of English site or any info about this game. PS I have read about Seabee's and other famous WW2 battles. History is nice subject for me.

   Posted 8 years ago #

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