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chrissie - 03 January 2015 01:06 PM

I’ve tried again with the game - this time I registered 1st then downloaded the game. On installing it there is a ‘skip’ button to avoid agreeing to the Alawar search engine (hopefully?) & I can now play the demo (in theory!). To purchase the game (& it’s only at this point the site tells you how much it is!) you click on something like ‘remove time limit’ but clicking on the Paypal option & then ‘Pay’ doesn’t work!

The site is absolute rubbish & tells you nothing about pricing unless you want to pay for a subscription but if you want to go ahead with the game I (in theory) can play the demo in the hope that I might be able to buy the rest of the game when the demo finishes! The site tries to fob all this other stuff on you & I think they’re keen to sell their 1 day subscription for $1 because if you fail to unsubscribe within 24 hours you will be relieved of $24.99 (or something like that) for a month’s subscription! I’m not impressed with these kind of tactics but hopefully have avoided the worst from Alawar so far!

I’ll be interested to know how it works out. If you can write out a workaround that gets you to the point where you can purchase the game without the “Alawar-shit” as IZ calls it, maybe it can go back on the “playable” list.

I’ve contacted BFG customer service to see whether I could buy five or six copies of the game. I probably won’t hear from them until mid-week at the earliest. None of this makes much sense. If BFG has the game on their servers so that people who have already purchased the game can re-install it, then why are they not able to sell it? The only explanation I can think of is that there is no place to send the royalty checks. I.e. every company associated with the game is out of business. Selling the game under that circumstance is probably against the law. Doesn’t explain what Alawar is doing….

I’ll report back when I’ve heard from BFG. Now for Time Dreamer!

I didn’t have any problems with the download for Time Dreamer, so I’m ready to go.

Had to seriously amp the music, though, 100% compared to 50% for effects, just so it wouldn’t be too quiet.

I watched the intro but I’ll keep my WTF?-comment for the specific thread…

Well I’m not going ahead with Wishmaster under current circumstances.

It’s ironic that Lady Kestrel didn’t vote for the game because it was not available for Mac. And it turns out that the only legitimate download of the game, (other than the ones previously purchased from BFG,) is a Mac version of the game available from G5 games.

As for other comments, in point two of my last post I said that it takes a minimum of 8-10 players for a good community playthrough. Wishmaster has, I think, five people who are capable of playing the game. Not enough.

If I had known what a colossal PITA this would become I would not have nominated the game. Sorry.

I will be catching up with the playthrough when I get back from my trip across the pond.  I’ve played the game before, but I don’t remember much about it, which is good from a replay point of view.

rtrooney - 04 January 2015 09:18 PM

If I had know what a colossal PITA this would become I would not have nominated the game. Sorry.

No need to apologize. Alawar seems to be to blame here, not you.

The sad part is that this has made me even more curious, though.

chrissie - 05 January 2015 12:18 PM

It’s easy enough to access the Alawar website Tim - I’d be interested to know what you make of it? & it would also be useful to have another opinion apart from Izno’s & my own!

I went as far as the screen where you get to purchase the game. Having to download their software was slightly annoying, but BigFish has similar software (although a lot more informative and just plain better). I hadn’t seen anything else that was downloaded as well, but that could still come with the game.
It wouldn’t bother me too much if that happened, though. I clean my PC regularly of unnecessary/annoying programs.
I’m still up for Wishmaster.

But I totally get the decision to not go through with it now, and Alawar does seem dodgy, especially when compared to BigFish, so I get it if others lost interest as well…

To the best of my ability to reconstruct what is going on, the following players have Wishmaster on their computers or can reload it from BFG: Me, Crabapple, Becky and furgotten. That’s four players.

The following people are willing to endure Alawar to get the game: TimovieMan and Lady Kestrel. (I’m including LK here because a Mac version is available from a reliable download site.) That’s two more players.

That gives us six players, and I don’t think that is enough to sustain a CCPT. If we can get up to eight, even though I consider that the bare minimum, it might be worth a go.