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   Dragonlair
   Member

   OK, I'm still waiting for a response from an email last week to FreeGamePick. Maybe someone can clue me into what my message means.

   Originally, when I tried to download the game "Hidden on the Trail of the Ancients" it did a countdown of about 20 seconds and the just said there was an error connecting to the server and to try again later.

   Now the message is "Error connecting to the server, this download is not available for your location. Please try again later." What do they mean by "this download is not available for your location?"

   I've had a friend in another state try it with the same result. She hasn't seen the new message - I just found it a few hours ago.

   The requirements for the game are: OS: Windows 7/ 8 CPU: 1.40 GHz RAM: 2024 MB DirectX: 9.0.

   DirectX 9 is rather old. It makes no sense that it requires only 9 but yet a minimum of Windows 7!

   It appears to be a rather new game to be seen in the freebie circuit -- earlier this year and after seeing more and more about it, I'm not sure I would keep it but after all this, I would at least like the download to run.

   I'm getting more and more angry and upset with FreeGamePick. This is the second email that has gone totally unanswered and, unless they've been bought out and totally changed how they do things, the old install files you may have saved from a few years ago may give you a bit of a shock if you use them again. You may have an apparently clean install and then be unable to play the game unless you agree to install a toolbar! Same install file -- different installs. Now that's NASTY!

   Posted 8 years ago #
2. 

   ChrisS
   Administrator

   "This download is not available for your location?"

   
   usually means that the copyright writers have determined that your IP and/or Country is ineligible for the download content.

   In the this case, though, it probably means FreeGamePick has a problem. FWIW - I got the same error.

   The DirectX 9.0 requirement is probably left over from the basic game components being XP compatible. It will run fine on Windows 7/8.1, assuming it's ever available for download.

   Posted 8 years ago #
3. 

   mikiem2
   Moderator

   Well, I got curious... I fired up the Tor Browser, which routes your connection through a few anonymous proxy servers, the 1st time exiting in Romania, with a Romanian ip address, the 2nd time exiting a French node, with an ip in France. Same message. SO I right clicked the page in Firefox & took a look at the source:

   <div class="error" id="download-error"><span class="highlighted">Error</span> connecting to the server, this download is not available for your location. Please try again later.</div>

   Looks like Any error & you get the same message.

   It shows 4 links besides the one I get normally, with en, es [what this example shows], pt, de, & fr -- tried all of them, getting the same message after the countdown.

   http://freegamepick.net/es/hidden-on-the-trail-of-the-ancients/download/

   Lower down the page it lists their hottest games, including "Hidden on the Trail of the Ancients" -- click the link & it took me to the mobile version, or was supposed to, since the page had a 404, not found message.

   So I did a quick search with Google -- Hidden on the Trail of the Ancients is sold on Steam, with a release date listed as 8/5/2015. Saw a few links for downloads, but from very questionable sites or sources, e.g. oceanofgames, where they offer the ISO -- Google them for reports of bundled or inserted keyloggers etc.

   Posted 8 years ago #
4. 

   Dragonlair
   Member

   You basically found what I did on the search. I saw the Steam reference but I found one site that listed it as released in April of 2015. The August date is just last week!

   It seems like a very new game to be on this sort of site. It may be listed as "hot" because everybody and his brother is trying -- but getting nowhere!

   This isn't looking good for them. It's like they're trying to hide that they have a problem by changing the message saying "it's not your turn" (taking a page out of Microsoft's book, I guess) rather than admit they've got a problem.

   Posted 8 years ago #

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