Barr - I demo'd a bunch of games today including two of those ones you just mentioned.  I looked at When in Rome - Royal Envoy 3 - Times of the Vikings - Imperial Island - Lauraville, Skeleton Pirates, Magic Time - Jewel Venture and just now Fort Defense.  Yep, suck at the defense things, did ok with Skeleton Pirates, it's exactly like Plants vs Zombies but Fort Defense, I'm stuck already level 3 I think or it could be 4 but it's right at the beginning.  There is no way I will be able to do it. 

lilyr wrote:

Dex -- I share many of your concerns.  In some cases I think upgrading the games will be/is the responsibility of the DEVs. BUT ... what happens when the DEV goes out of business?  I've already read a thread about the 2 YARD SALE HIDDEN TREASURES games not playing on Win 7!  As far as I can figutre out the DEV, SLAPDASH GAMES, is no longer in business.

I agree, the more you think about it the more possible senarios (sp?) keep coming up.  If BFG stops suppling/buying pay for games, and even if the developers are still in business doing upgrades to the games, will BGF get them since they no longer have a relationship with the developer?  It hurts my head to think about it.

I agree that the Cork workers don't really have any incentive to be enthusiastic. I wasn't really blaming the CS rep, was more thinking that if BFG has a problem, they should be finding a fix.  I would never look at the Dove game forum, not interested in the game, no reason to go there.  Did they leave a place for BFG to post notices.  Before, if there was a known issues, it would be brough up in CCC and a mod would comment and let us know what's going on.  I think there should be even one stickied locked thread that we could go to look for these types of issues.  CS is going to get bombarded with questions for every time there is a glitch.  (I'm behind don't know what's going on - just spewing my opinions - maybe this has been covered and I'm just not aware.  I'm a paying member but I wasn't in the forums when all this went down.  I just went one day and it was GONE, I didn't realize the game forums were still there until two days ago.  I have no idea where I should be looking for information - not so much on the BIG issue, but on little technical stuff like I was mentioning).

misscatlady2453 wrote:

Lilyr - yeah that basically my worry. That they won't keep giving us pay for games and then they won't let us keep the games we already bought.

Hi Cat - Lilyr

Butting into your thoughts.  I too am concerned about the future of pay for games, but IMHO we should be ok for a little bit.  In the pay to play games there is a discount on the upgrades if you are a BFG club member. The membership gives you a game credit per month - they have to give us SOMETHING to use those credits on.  When/if the membership changes, that's when I'm going to get REALLY nervous.  I think as long as BFG are in business they will leave our purchase history on the site (should be able to d/l previously bought games) - I can't see any reason why they wouldn't.  What I am concerned about is if they will continue to offer technical support of those games.  We all know in time technology gets obsolete. Will I be able to d/l a game manager into my next computer?  Will the older games stilll play?  Will customer service continue to help us with these issues?  Those are just some of my thoughts.

Thanks Barr!!

I've d/l them and will demo them at some point.  I am so far behind and out of touch......

I used to be a HOG/HOPA fan (and have lots unfinished), and then I woke up one day, and couldn't do it anymore.  Didn't have the patience for them, thought they were all the same.  I really hope that I wake up someday and that switch and been turned back.
I've always played a lot of different genres, right now my favorites are TM (especially road builder - resource management types) and M3's.  I do like puzzle games - jigsaw and things like Mosaics. I try really hard to like tower defense games, but I'm really bad at them and usually give up in frustration - why can't there be more like Plants vs Zombies.  I like a lot of stuff, Marble Poppers would be an expection - don't like them.