thank you marian very much, why do big fish customers demo first.

Family, they try out the demo in the hopes that if they are able to play the game for a little while, they will know for sure whether they like it not and want to spend money on it. Kind of like wanting to read the first chapter of a book to see if it interests you enough to want to purchase it so you can keep on reading it.

I don't find the need to demo HOPAs much because I pretty much know what I am getting and that I will like it, but I can understand why a lot of people wish to play a few minutes of it first before deciding.

The other reason to demo something is to reassure yourself that the game will run on your computer, although sometimes people have issues after the demo, so it's not a foolproof method - but at least you know that the game starts up without giving you an error message.

Like oldbroad, I don't bother with demos. If I like the look of the game I will buy it

Sorry for late reply but thank you very much Susie07 for explaining that to me. Makes sense now why I was seeing no extra credit when I used the Game Club credit to buy a recent game.

Hi, lakerz!

You're very welcome, and there is certainly no need to apologize. I was also under the impression that we would earn 15% back in points if we used points to purchase games, but Marian solved the mystery when she used both points and her credit card to purchase a game and only earned back 15% in points for the portion paid for with her credit card. Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly, but I'm pretty sure we received one Punch Card punch even if we used a Game Club credit to purchase a SE game.

I still have the majority of points I received when my Game Club credits and Punch Card credit were converted because I'm being a lot more selective with the games I buy, and have only purchased them during a sale !

Susan

Thought I might just add that since the new system was implemented, if I buy a game from Big Fish in a general SALE (as a non club member) the price I am charged per game is still higher than the FULL price I would previously have paid for a game that was NOT in a sale !!

Which is what imakes buying games from them these days so much more expensive

Wow! That stinks Mad!

A CE BOGO sale just went up on the website. This should last through the weekend. Their weekend sales now begin on Friday afternoons. This has been true ever since the platform change.

I know it says ALL but have you confirmed that by any chance? The reason I ask is because it talks about Eipix games in the Memory Lane page. It's not just all Eipix games is it?

Anyway, thanks for the head's up!

No, it's all CEs. I already tested it in my shopping cart.

Marian, are purchased games still showing purchased in your account? The ones I just bought, do not, so I checked the one I bought last week which DID show purchased at that time, but no longer does.

I took a look at the download page for Living Legends: The Blue Chamber CE, which is a game I bought a while ago. This is the page where you can download the demo. It has one button to download the demo and the other button says purchased. I then looked for a second game that I purchased since the platform change, and it also says purchased on the demo download page.

Or are you talking about it saying purchased somewhere else? My Order History/Purchase History looks correct as well.

That's the page I'm looking at (the game page). I purchased Moontrain 10 days ago and after purchasing, it said "purchased" on that second button. Now it is showing to download the demo on the left button and purchase full game on the right button. I just bought 4 more games and am downloading one right now. When it finishes, I guess I will have to start Moontrain (which I downloaded when I bought) to see if I have the full game. I am getting worried now!

They all show in my purchase history on the website and under "My Game Downloads" in my account, they all show "available" (status) and "unlimited" (remaining downloads). My game manager looks fine. I don't know why they don't show "purchased" on the game page though, when I KNOW Moontrain did before because I remember checking it.

Also, I can put Moontrain in my cart and it doesn't flag me there either that I already purchased it, although I didn't hit "check out".

The system does not warn you anymore when you put something into your shopping cart that you already own, unfortunately. I really liked that feature.

If everything shows elsewhere that you have purchased the games, I would not worry about it, at least not yet. I still see glitchy things going on that, while they aren't breaking anything, are still present. If things don't look right a month from now, then go ahead and write to them about it. As long as you see that available and unlimited status, I would say that it just isn't displaying correctly on the download page at this point but it's not a big deal (unless you tried to purchase a game that you had already purchased since the platform change, of course).

You are right again Marian! All five games that I've purchased since the platform change are showing as "purchased" today!

I will say that I don't find it as easy to purchase games anymore because I have to really scrutinize everything to make sure I'm getting the right game (CE, Windows, English). I know that is not really much different (I did have to check before too) but there seems to be too many items on the page when you do a "search" now. Somehow it seems harder, though it probably isn't really.

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Actually, I agree with you about this, ob. It seems like a lot more to wade through. I haven't used a lot of the search functions as yet that are supposed to narrow things down more, though, so maybe that will help some.

I'm sitting here looking at my earned points and realizing that they really don't amount to much at all for non-members. If my math is correct, I would have to buy 100 games at full price to have enough points to get 1 free game. That's a lot of spending (which I'm sure will happen AGAIN over time but...) Still though, I don't want my card charged every month. Maybe I will try it again in the future if I find that I am buying a lot of games again.

Yes, Game Club members get far more out of the points system than non-members. We get 15% back as Game Club members and 1% back for non-members. Thus far it has benefited me greatly and I am paying less for Collector's Editions and standard games than I was before the platform change. I use PayPal for my Game Club membership every month and have never had a problem with it.

I'm so glad that we have a place here to discuss all of this.

Becoming a Club Member to get better rewards is not a very sensible move for me.

I have SO many unplayed games across my THREE preferred genres that adding to them (which I still frequently do) is really supremely silly !!!!

I understand, Mad. I have had an especially bad time with Big Fish and trying to keep the numbers down due to the fact that I like HOPAs, match 3 games, adventures, time management games, solitaire, and other assorted genres as well. Yikes!

Well, Marian, this price hike for me at BF will definitely help make me see some sense with Casuals at least !!

The genres for me are RPGs, Adventures and Casuals.
And I have way too many of each still not yet played 😯

I like RPGs too, so add that genre to the list as well.

I am considering becoming a Game Club member but right now am playing mainly on my iPad. As I understand it, the points only accrue for PC and Mac games (I have the latter), so I’m not sure if it is worth it.