stusue wrote:

Tirama, I just have no interest in FTP games.  I don't like straight HOGs like Gardenscape at all and the ones I've looked at just don't compare to all the bought games I have that I'm yet to play.  There aren't enough hours in the day to play all my unplayed games, let alone start playing neverending FTP games.    My sister used to play some farming game on Pogo and she ended up spending so many hours every day trying to get all the tasks done to get awards or whatever that it started taking over her life as it was always, I'll just do one more level, just one more, just one more.  So she just stopped cold turkey one day as she wanted her life back.

I guess that's the very reason I haven't done any FTP games because they sound a lot like a couple I played for quite a while on FB.  Probably the same ones your sister did.  I would wake up early and try to get as many quests done as I could, go to work (they blocked our FB so no play at work, duh) and then worked on them at night.  I played Farmville and Castleville and loved them because they were fun and I met some really nice people (you have to have friends to send you stuff) but the requests got so time consuming that I could never catch up and ran out of room. Then they started adding more farm areas and woods area and I said "enough".  Also quit cold turkey.  I wasted a lot of time when I could have been playing my bought games and working on my other game challenges.

Someone mentioned the Alex Hunter game ~ I think it is also a sale game on Friday at Legacy Games.  Went over there and looked and ended up getting The Fog for $2.95.  Went ahead and reactivated my BFG membership for a month so I could get the Madame Fate and Christmas Carol games.  Haven't really missed it that much as both my parents have been in and out of the hospital since the first of December.  We have put my mom on hospice care since her dementia seems to be in last stage.  She had terrible congestion and thought it might be pneumonia, but diagnosis was hypoxia, something having to do with oxygenation of her blood.  She has really declined since her falls in June so just take each day as it comes.  Off to their community now for a small Christmas dinner and party.

Tee, I'm so sorry to hear about your parents.  It must be really hard for you, especially at this time of year.  I hope your mum's comfortable and I hope your dad's okay.  I'll keep you and your parents in my thoughts and prayers.  I hope the Christmas party was fun! 

And I think Farmville was the game my sister used to play.  She didn't have time for all the challenges you had to do to get all the badges, or whatever it was she got, and so a friend of hers who wasn't working at the time used to do them for her.  I can't remember how many levels there were but when she started there were, let's say, 50.  And when she got close to that she was so happy that she was almost finished, until they upped it to 75. Then when she got close to 75 they upped it to 100, when she thought that that would be the end.  But noooooo!  They upped it yet again.  That's when she realised that it was never going to end, that she wasn't even enjoying it anymore, and she wasn't even playing it but getting her friend to do all the challenges for her just so that she could get the badges.  That's when she realised how stupid she was to continue something she wasn't even playing or enjoying and stopped.

I think also that you could get things in RL with your badges, or coins, or whatever it was you collected.  However, that was only for people in America.  So she was collecting all these things for absolutely nothing.  I don't think she plays anything anymore, other than the games she and I play on Skype together every day while we chat.

How do you know what's coming up on sale at Legacy Games?  On FB?  I can't see anything to say what's coming up on their website.    I hope you have fun with The Fog.  I started it and loved what I'd played but haven't had time to play it for a week or so, so I've forgotten everything.  I thnk I'm going to have to start right from the beginning again, as it's worth it. 

stusue wrote:

Tee, I'm so sorry to hear about your parents.  It must be really hard for you, especially at this time of year.  I hope your mum's comfortable and I hope your dad's okay.  I'll keep you and your parents in my thoughts and prayers.  I hope the Christmas party was fun! 

Thank you, sue. It was nice and she was able to be with us and enjoy it.  Took a pic of my folks with Santa Claus.  They had these small fake candles with a cardinal on top of the glass and when you moved your hand, they chirped and she loved holding it.  They gave a few of the residents bells to ring while they played Xmas songs and she sang along so my heart was full of happiness while I watched her.  My son recently asked if I would be really sad when she passed and I told him "no" because I had done everything I could for them these last few years and had so many things to remind me of them so they would still be with me everyday. 

sue, if you look at this month's games and sales blip on the right side of the Legacy home page, it brings up a small calendar and it shows the Tuesday and Friday offerings.  It says Dec 12 calendar but the games are the ones offered so far and Alex Hunter is showing for Friday.  See on BFG this morning, they're having a "modified" BOGO again in the middle of the week.  Like someone mentioned previously, maybe they figured out about carryover codes working on BPM and they're switching things up.  Definitely getting the Christmas Carol game today and maybe one other 4/5* game.

stusue...Alex Hunter is at GameHouse today.  I d/l using my funpass it looks good and has all the bells & whistles that the BF game has.

I finished Phantom of the Opera and really enjoyed the game.  The main ending could have been fleshed out some more.  Was disappointed in the bonus chapter - it only took me 40 minutes.

Started Nearwood yesterday.  What a beautiful game.  Stuck on a flower puzzle at the parents house right now.

Teeitup...So sorry to hear about your mom. 

stusue wrote:

BFG has the half-price sales in the middle of the week but BOGOF's are normally for 2 days on the weekend, followed by BPM.  Speaking of which, why aren't you waiting to get the Christmas Carol game and whichever other one you decide to get until Monday so that you get the extra punches???? 

I thought about that but the last few weeks they really haven't had a true BOGO so decided to go ahead and get it now; now watch, it will be a true one right before Xmas but that's OK, don't really need a lot of PCC's as that will just keep me locked in again.  Do want to get a couple of SE's I've read you all talking about.  I don't miss it but it sure is fun figuring out what to get.

Thanks, sunshine and Tirama ~ I do value my time with them as they are both 89 and I know I am luckier than most.

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