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   Dragonlair
   Member

   Although I have never had any problems downloading/installing games from MyPlayCity other than the shortcuts being set to run in admin mode, there is a new development that you need to be aware of.

   They don't hijack your home page, they don't force (or even try to force) toolbars on you and the games themselves have no ads within them. However, they do have ONE ad ONE time during loading.

   The last few games I've downloaded from them has done the same thing (including the new one "The Last Conundrum of Da Vinci" that was just released today) - the first time you run the game (or until you successfully load the game itself), you get a small "this game is supported by" with a small ad. It's not long and after that first time, you just get the small white window for a few seconds and then it goes on to the normal game load.

   I warn you because it's unexpected and the first ad I saw with Conundrum made my Avira Personal's Guard upset. It blocked it and the loading of the game load failed. I simply tried again, got a totally different ad and then the game completed the load.

   Subsequent loads of the game have not had the ad and there are NO ads within the game. I'm willing to put up with a one-shot deal but if they start putting the ads inside the game, I'll stop using MPC!

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Thank you for the warning Dragonlair. I've stayed away from MyPlayCity for quite a few years because of their previous practces, but after hearing that they had adoptded similar practices to Gametop, I happened to download a game last week following a test run with a game that we were given via the game giveaway (I needed it to write a review). I seem to remember the same thing happened, but my security didn't pick up on it, saw didn't mention it in my post of last week (that was removed due to a problem with a link to what I though was an associated site.

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   RosnSC
   Member

   Dragonlair, I used to swear by mostfun.com because it allowed me to play games, for free, that I couldn't/can't afford to buy. With all the double ad-ding they do - between levels, and the corner ad boxes during game play - I've finally reached the no-tolerance point, and have really pulled back from playing their games. I have now switched to myplaycity.com, for the same very-few-ads reason you mentioned. One of the 2 games I've played from mostfun, I have deleted after downloading from MPC. One game that mostfun has that I haven't seen on MPC is Pirate Poppers, which I enjoyed playing, in the past. I'd like to get it again, but don't really want to bother with mostfun, anymore.

   Posted 13 years ago #

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