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   Dragonlair
   Member

   My count may not be accurate but according to my figures they have hit the 1000 game mark.

   They may, like Jenkat, remove games but that's not easy to tell as it is with Jenkat. Jenkat numbers them.

   They don't seem to do as Jenkat has done for a year and now FreeGamePick is doing -- changing the dates of games to make them "look" newer than they are to give the appearance of new games added. With Jenkat, it's kind of stupid since there is the count and if it doesn't change, it's just a redating trick!

   Yes MyPlayCity has it's annoyances. You do have to carefully uncheck the hijacking of search engines and home pages and maybe on some systems you cannot uncheck them. I've seen that where one person was forced to accept the hijacking if she used Firefox but not if she used Internet Explorer.

   Yes, you currently don't have a choice as to where MyPlayCity puts the game unless you watch for the "full" installation executable (what you initially download is just a stub. Yes it does open your browser at the end of the game. Both of these actions are circumventable. You can either MOVE the game (and then fix the uninstall pointer in the registry) or uninstall/re-install using that larger file where you do have a choice. There are ways to avoid that browser opening but I will not post how to do that -- they might change it and make it much more difficult.

   What is really amazing about MyPlayCity is all the times they have changed their install procedure, they seem to change it for ALL the games -- not just the the new ones but also the ones that have been around for years. I have verified that the past few days getting a few games that I know have been available for years and yet had the newest download procedure.

   Really, whether you like them or hate them - they do have a service of many (now 1000) games that are available for free with no adware and maybe only that browser opening at the end. Let's give them credit for that. They even have some games still available that the developer has abandoned (such as the original Treasures of Montezuma).

   Good job MyPlayCity.com!

   Diane

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Amazing. Pity they have such an aggressive stance on installing stuff at the moment. At least they do cycle through several different strategies over a period of a few years. hopefully the next change will be the one where you only have to check the boxes once. :)

   I dread to think how much they pay out to all of the developers of the games that they have in their library. It's probably one of the reasons they are quite aggressive w.r.t. tool bars, home page changes and browser changes (to the Ask browser) Some are from MyPlayCity, but it's so long ago I can't remember which are developed via MPC.

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   Littlemaggit
   Member

   I'm grateful to Diane (Dragonlair) for explaining what's been happening with Jenkat as I was getting quite confused - I kept thinking "I'm sure they've had that one already". Now I know that they have indeed had that one.

   Being a fan of FROGs, IHOGs, Adventure-style HOGs etc rather than anything that requires quick reactions, I've had a great deal of fun with games from both Jenkat and MPC. I don't mind if some of the games are a bit dated if they are enjoyable.

   I used to use Gamehouse quite a bit, but they seem to be going through quite a lot of problems lately and their ads in the free game of the day are an awful lot longer than they used to be (and often crop up more frequently in the game play). I quite understand that they need to have the ads, but if they are too frequent then I think they may be rather counter-productive (especially if it's the same ad each time). I've purchased some games from GH in the past when they had some very good offers, but they've stopped using PayPal and I'm certainly not setting up an account with a credit card with them.

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   RosnSC
   Member

   "especially if it's the same ad each time"

   Littlemaggit, I don't recall if it was Gamehouse or Mostfun.com that did that, but a long time ago they were running an ad for some hand-held gadget that looked pretty cool; one of those "Oh, I'd like to have one of those". They showed that blasted thing SO many times I got tired of looking at it, and said "Okay, now I don't want one: they made me not want one, anymore". I rarely play the Gamehouse free games, anymore, though I've got (still) several of them.

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   Dragonlair
   Member

   The only gamehouse games I have are "licensed". The quotes are because I do have the full license for them but I didn't pay for any of them. I have avoided giving sites like Gamehouse, Alawar, and Big Fish Games any credit card or other charge information. All my games from any of them have been free (with a coupon or other special deal).

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   Dragonlair
   Member

   Just a comment about a statement made by Stephen concerning MyPlayCity on the recent game giveaway.

   They are NOT more aggressive and they do not force hijacking of search engines and home pages and such. For me, it's a simple case of unchecking 2 boxes and and clicking "Install". I don't get a choice where it puts the game but I can work around that easily enough.

   Some months ago a friend had a problem where she was forced to accept the hijacking -- if she downloaded from Firefox. If she downloaded from IE, she got the same download that I did with no forced acceptance of anything. There appears to be something in some browsers that causes an alternate form of the download to be received.

   For those who are seeing this forced hijacking -- try downloading using a different browser. Not everyone is having that problem -- I certainly am not and I verified that by downloading today's new game "Rolling Idols: Lost City" (the sequel to Rolling Idols).

   Posted 10 years ago #

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