http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Acropolis free from realarcade (19.99 value) en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:24:43 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24964 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:04:35 +0000 Michelle 24964@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I don't like Spyware Doctor Starter Edition. I have a bunch of problems with it, it takes up a lot of resources still. I use S&#38;D too (downloaded it the other day), though I used it a few years ago too, don't use tea timer in it though. Webroot Spysweeper isn't bad either, but for some reason I always have a problem logging off the computer with Spysweeper. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24959 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:24:56 +0000 sukibabe 24959@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I use Spybot Search and Destroy!</p> <p>It's Free, so is Spyware Doctor if you get it with the Google pack.</p> <p>Don't like Ad"s new new one at all, course I always used the free version.</p> <p>Suki</p> <p>P.S. The only thing I loose is, Myself!!!!!!!! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24955 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:46:49 +0000 Michelle 24955@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>You can loose a cd too. I just liked to have a cd just in case we have no internet or something like that. I got ad-aware 2007 for signing up for superpass from realnetworks with trialpay today. I was a little skeptical at first with that, but it works. It's not 1,2,3 though. I waited probably over an hour after I signed up for the trial to get the information I needed. Lavasoft was the one who sent me my log in details and all that.</p> <p>I have never used Ad-Aware's paid version till now. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24951 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:36:42 +0000 sukibabe 24951@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>LOL, ya need to know how to hack it, which I DON'T!!!! I believe at Fish you can get a cd with your game on it, same for allot of the others. Get the game today, have the cd forever!</p> <p>Suki </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24949 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:45:48 +0000 Michelle 24949@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I tried to burn my games to cd once, I succeeded in doing it too, but when I went to use the games on the disk they were all trials. I don't think you can do it that way or you have to do something else and copy another file to cd so they are not a trial version. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24944 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:14:32 +0000 sukibabe 24944@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I can run my RA games from the folder they load them to, I just made a shortcut of the whole folder!<br /> My question would be(illegal), that even doing that you can't copy them to cd!</p> <p>Although, I bought them, I think it's unfair!</p> <p>Big Fish has some games in their data base that are so old they could be Blue Cheese! At least I know they won't go away! If they did they would give you a credit for a new one, RA won't!</p> <p>Suki</p> <p>Sorry, no Vista downgrade for me! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24867 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:03:46 +0000 sukibabe 24867@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Yes, that give as a gift feature is nice, that is one of the new things they implemented!</p> <p>They used to only allow 5 re-downloads when they used Trymedia systems, I'm glad they got rid of them! When I bought a game, I would get one confirmation from BF, then another from Trymedia, their new system is far better! Looking in my Big Fish folder, Trymedia included another code to activate the game again. Fish dumped them in June of 2007.</p> <p>My take, Fish went the right way, Ra went down the tubes!</p> <p>Suki </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24815 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:21:35 +0000 CreamyPretzel 24815@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Another great thing about BigFish Games: My daughter loves games, and she lives across the country from me. With BigFish, I can buy an extra game credit any time I like, for 6.99, and e-mail it to my daughter. She can then go in and choose any game she wants.</p> <p>Also, even if you ever quit BigFish, your game credits will always be good until you use them. And even if you are no longer a member, if you ever lose a game from your PC for some reason, you can go to BigFish and re-download it at no charge.</p> <p>These guys definitely know what they are doing, and they do it well. -Dan </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24812 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:00:18 +0000 Michelle 24812@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I had realarcade gamepass too, and I thought it was okay except for one problem. I got sick of games that I have the full version of expiring. That's the only problem I had with realarcade that I remember. I was told to redownload the game and install and unlock and that fixed the problem, but things like that shouldn't happen. I would have no way of doing that if I didn't have internet access. I like the new version of realarcade better. Maybe I will retry it once again. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24807 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:15:44 +0000 sukibabe 24807@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Just remember to cancel and request confirmation be sent to you!</p> <p>The first month I was with Fish, I bought 12 games(thus completing my years contract),lol!<br /> I have since tried to control myself, which is tough for a gamer(I don't think I beat Whabbit though)!<br /> The $3.00 difference allows me 5 extra games a year.</p> <p>Suki </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24803 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:49:18 +0000 Buckleysmom 24803@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>haalam.....yes I know they are "2 different animals", like I said I was just having a brain cramp (happens more often the older I get :D). Anyway the problem is not in installation it is with my start menu items. I will follow your tips and let you know the outcome. Thanks for the info.</p> <p>Everyone.....I thought RA's Game Pass was free to members, never even read the details and I signed up for it. Then while reading further I realized there was a monthly fee so I called them this morning to cancel Game Pass and "Sylvia" said I have it on free trial till 4/29 and I have a $20.00 game credit. She suggested I keep it till then and use up my credit then cancel and owe nothing. Cool! So that's what I"m going to do. Just thought I'd let you know that good things can come from RA - lol. I just got Big Fish a couple weeks ago so I haven't had much experience with them yet. I must say though I have found so much free stuff, especially games to play online, since I've been at this forum that I won't need to spend $$$ for a while. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24786 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:07:16 +0000 sukibabe 24786@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I had a phone chat too back in November/2007 from India, the chick told me she could access it on her end and it must be a fault with my wireless router. When I tried to explain to her that it was not on my end, she hung up!!!!!!! I had gone directly from my cable modem to the back of my Laptop(bypassing the router) to rule out that fact!</p> <p>This is when I went to the Email support(at first also from India), they got my name wrong! They finally decided they could not help me and elevated me to Tier 2 Tech support, which is based in Washington State. I have a folder in my inbox that if I were to print it out, would take 140 pages! They asked me to send them all the system info,dxdiag and the V2 R2 test result which I did for all the PC's. Never heard from them again!</p> <p>Buckleysmom, when I belonged to Game Pass, it was $7.99(all others $14.95).<br /> Now it is $9.99(all others $14.99), they did however change the time limit from 1 to 2 months to use or loose your game credit! I am on the RA forums, and when I posted the price increase, they edited it out, lmao! I switched to Big Fish in 2006 and have never regretted the move! When I went to cancel game pass they kept trying to bribe me with a free game(hoping I would forget about the extra month, which I didn't)which I took! I called them back( which they require now for cancellation) and told them to just forget it, and send a confirmation Email that my membership had been canceled(which I kept encase of future charges to my card)!<br /> At Fish, I pay $6.99 a month(all other games $6.99), I never loose my credits and customer service is good!<br /> The price and customer service is not the only reason I left. They are very slow to get games! Case in point, I do what they call Evaluations(beta test) for them. We usually get from 1-5 a week. This last Thursday (3/27) the 2 games we got were: The Count of Monte Cristo (released on BF on 3/2/2008) and Can You See What I See (released on BF on 3/15/2008)! They still call it beta testing if you want to sign up, but most of it is, "Will You Buy this Game from RA"!<br /> I'm not trying to change anyones mind here, just stating the best bang for your buck!<br /> If RA works for you, then I'm glad! Big Fish also Upgraded their site around the same time(RA was May 2007), didn't screw it up and most important to me, Didn't Raise the Price!!!<br /> Maybe if they would have taken some of the advice that was given to them from their customers, they wouldn't have lost so many!</p> <p>Suki </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24736 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:43:00 +0000 robm 24736@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Kerikaz<br /> I had a live phone chat with Real Arcade Customer Service a month ago and because of some incompatibility issues they were not forcing everyone to version 2 and assured me that I could stay with V 1.4 and even offered me a link. I think that they accept that the web based version cannot work for everyone and would rather not lose anymore customers. Not that I would necessarily trust everything they say.</p> <p>I have the same problems with the updates to the player (I think V 1.2 and 1.4 are very similar). </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24714 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:08:26 +0000 kerikaz 24714@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Halaam,<br /> I have RA V1.2 on both computers, not V1.4. For whatever reason, my systems have never updated from this version. Even when it checks for updates, it tells me I have the latest version....go figure. I heard that they are starting to phase out the old versions and force people to the new one. Maybe that's what's happening with my Vista. Tag, I'm it. LOL Keri </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24711 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:50:49 +0000 robm 24711@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>After reading the comments above I will play it safe in the future and not tempt fate by downloading any further games from Real Arcade, even if they are free. We have mostly had similarly annoying experiences with Real and their Customer disservice.</p> <p>I thought that I was one of the few who had experiences problems but it sounds like there were many. I am grateful for Bigfish Games and their pricing/selection of games and excellent customer service. I have received many free games from them and they carefully read and understand what I am saying. It is one of the many reasons they have retained me as a long term customer. There is also much less drama. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24709 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:44:36 +0000 haalam 24709@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>kerikaz: I am not sure that RA V1.4 is compatible with Vista, so that is probably why your laptop installation of RA is telling you to upgrade to V2.</p> <p>Buckleysmom: When you say "install" do you mean where the game shows up in the Start Menu instead? Two different animals. The location of the actual game files installation can not be changed, it is in the Windows Registry as is. The icons in the Start Menu CAN be moved. Go to Start, Settings, then Taskbar and Start Menu. Then click on the "start menu" tab at the top, then Customize, then Advanced. That opens Windows Explorer right at your Start Menu. From there you can move the game icons to the folder of your choice -- ONLY MOVE WITHIN FOLDERS UNDER "START MENU". If you move them anywhere else, they will NOT be in your Start Menu! Good luck! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012/page/2#post-24697 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:04:50 +0000 Buckleysmom 24697@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>kerikaz....Oh, I'm sorry, had a minor brain cramp. It's not the installing that's a problem it's the shortcuts on the startmenu. I have one Real folder under All Programs and 2 more folders inside my Games folder. That's 3 Real folders each one with different games. I've tried to put them all in the same shortcut folder but then they don't run. Ugh! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012#post-24689 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:47:27 +0000 kerikaz 24689@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>From reading the posts in the RA forums, some people have absolutely no problems with either the old version or the new version of RealArcade. I had had no problems until I tried to put this (Acropolis) game on my Vista machine. I had downloaded demo games from RA on it up to about a week ago without the prompt to upgrade. </p> <p>Buckleysmom - Here is how my games show up: In my C:Program Files I have a folder called "Real" and within that is RealArcade which is the game player installer, also RealGames which is empty (???). In my C:MyGames each game that I have has its own folder with the game files. Not sure why these are here and not in the RealGames folder. Then in C:MyDownloadFiles is each games installer. It would be nice if they were all in the same place, but they're not. Is this what you're seeing?</p> <p>I'm going to try downloading a different demo game from my V1.2 version on my Vista and see what happens. Maybe I'll get lucky. I'm willing to try the new version, I just don't have the time now to have to redownload all of my games...so I've been putting it off.</p> <p>I have always been happy with RealArcade until I had a few problems and had to deal with their customer service. That is everyone's biggest complaint, if they would fix that they may not loose so many customers.</p> <p>Keri </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012#post-24682 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:04:35 +0000 Buckleysmom 24682@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I'm surprised at the problems you guys are having with RA mentioned here and on the Galapagos thread. I haven't had any problems with them as far as the games go. I do have trouble getting them to install where i want. It seems when I get a new game a new "Real" folder is created instead of the new game going where the old ones are . As a result I have 3 folders now. Anybody know how to stop that from happening? I did just get the free Acropolis and the game pass as well so now I have credit for a second free game. Not a bad deal. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012#post-24681 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:02:51 +0000 copmom 24681@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Me, Vista?? NO WAY! XP here. I'm using Firefox too, but did try getting their d/l in IE as well. I can right click on firefox and have the option of viewing in IE if needed. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012#post-24674 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:43:25 +0000 sukibabe 24674@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Are you running Vista?</p> <p>These instructions are for XP. I have XP Media Center(aka xp pro).</p> <p>As for the V2 R2 tests I saw you tried on the Galapago page, I tried it from the link and I am using Firefox, lol, you should have seen what they said! Somewhere in the jumble of errors, I saw they had detected that I had V1 installed. I don't think they like Firefox, as the new site always opens in IE. I even tried going thru Firefox on my Desktop, it brought up the page no problem, this time I saw download and buy buttons, but I couldn't download the game using Fox.</p> <p>I like messing with Mikey at Tier 2 Tech support at RA, I think it's about time I sent him another Email! It seems when they match the version and the installer I can't download the demos. I didn't install the 2 Evals we got because I already played the Demos from BF 2-3 weeks ago. I was always able to download them, they use a different address. Will see if that corrects my problem on the desktop.</p> <p>Suki </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012#post-24664 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:40:15 +0000 copmom 24664@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>My program files doesn't show realarcade at all.. but there are games I've got on here that did come from there, just not under the "real" directory, just have them in folder called 'games' in the c: drive. And I did the same thing... made several folders on my desktop for different categories. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012#post-24659 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:30:45 +0000 sukibabe 24659@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Open My Computer<br /> Navigate to: C:Program Files\RealArcade\Installer\uninstaller<br /> In here you will find scripts for every game you have installed as well as the scripts to uninstall RAC v2</p> <p>First run: fullclientrar.rguninst<br /> Second run: fullcatalograr.rguninst<br /> Third run: Appresourcerar.rguninist<br /> Last run: Realarcade.rguninist</p> <p>These steps will uninstall the new real arcade without affecting your games.<br /> I would do what I did, send the games folder to your desktop first. I have a folder on my Desktop called my games, I just dragged the folder to it.</p> <p>Suki </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012#post-24656 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:09:41 +0000 copmom 24656@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Maybe that's why I cannot download their installer.. they've probably got pieces are parts hidden in my registry. Guess I could go to start/run and type in regedit and then in the registry editor do a search for all their files and delete, but that's work! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012#post-24654 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:05 +0000 sukibabe 24654@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Well, they screwed it up again with the new version I listed above,Lmao!</p> <p>I tried it this afternoon, and I can't download demos again, just hangs up!</p> <p>The 2.3 version worked, but it had a different installer, now they made the version and installer the same again! I think this is where their problem is. </p> <p>But, they are smarter than a fifth grader, NOT!</p> <p>The reason they didn't prompt me to upgrade, is the fact that I removed every trace of the V2 versions on my Laptop. Something they taught me how to do! They have stuff hidden on your pc, that if you didn't know where to look you would never find it, or for that matter how to take it off!<br /> I wouldn't buy from them again anyway!</p> <p>Suki </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012#post-24623 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:51:06 +0000 funkymom 24623@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>i don't disagree with the people who don't want to download, but i've had no problems. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012#post-24614 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:55:14 +0000 lonehiker 24614@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>kerikaz, thank you for your info. Based on the problems others seem to be having I will not be switching to the web version. With the old version, I don't have any trouble accessing my RA games. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012#post-24608 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:26:56 +0000 copmom 24608@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I can't even get their download manager to work to get the player download! As I recall the same thing happened several times when they had a free game offer in Reader's Digest. All I get is their page with a bunch of boxes with red X's and nothing happens! So who knows! Maybe there was a reason I originally deleted it from my machine??<br /> What I have in my download folder in explorer is Realone player v2.. got 12/2002, RP 10 gold 8/7/05, wonder if either of these would work?<br /> Nope.. those are mainly their 'players', and don't pertain to their games! Grrrrrrrr </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012#post-24604 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:31:53 +0000 kerikaz 24604@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Sukibabe - I'm not sure the age of the game is the difference. Loaded to V1.4 on my XP PC, but wanted me to upgrade to the new web version on my Vista Laptop. Not sure why it worked on one, but not the other. I know from the RA forums that it appears to be requiring upgrading at random. Who knows though, right?<br /> Keri </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012#post-24591 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:28:22 +0000 sukibabe 24591@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>robm</p> <p>Yes it did download to V1.4 just fine! I believe the problem is when the switched over to the new system in May 2007, all newer games added after that date would require the new system.<br /> Since this game was on their old system(I played it when they had a cheap deal going, when I was still a member to see if I liked it)that is why it didn't mess with V1.4!</p> <p>Thanks for letting me know! After I had to re-download(or I believe, over write) all my games(about 75)because the new system did not recognize them, which is stupid in itself, because they said it would,Lmao!<br /> There were however 2 games I had problems with "Poker Superstars Invitational" (don't think it's in their data base anymore) and "Diamond Detective" (which now shows up as online only)! To get Diamond Detective, I had to come back here to the post with the link from it! "Poker Superstars" is still in my games folder, but will not show up in the new RA player! So make sure you find that game folder and put it in a safe place!</p> <p>Suki </p>