Lantos Piroska,

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Hi Lantos, thanks for your explanation. I must apologize, I'm supposed to be moderating, but I'm so busy at the moment with my daughters revision, (she has mock examinations for her A levels at the moment and needs to show her teachers that she deserved the projected grades they gave her. Because of the grades they said she would get, she's been offered interviews at all the dental schools shes applied for. We've been tutoring her for months now and its been exhausting. My moderating has consequently suffered significantly.

At the moment I'm basically reading comments without really seeing them (unless they contain expletives or are obviously targeting community members. I don't think Robert meant to be sarcastic or to bite your head off and I agree to a degree with what you said, that said, a large proportion of the present giveaway community do enjoy these games a lot. It would be great to see a more diverse selection of genres given away, but we have to rely on the generosity of others and for the most part, the community are very grateful for the opportunity to get these free games. There's a fantastic and diverse number of great indie games of all genres available out there, the main issue is finding developers willing to give thousands of them away, We do occasionally see the odd indie game here, usually as a limited Steam key giveaway. At least what we do get is free.

Generally we have a fantastic community here, where most community members respect one another. If there is any bullying, inappropriate words etc, the culprits are usually warned to stop their behavior. If it continues they are then black listed, which means any comment they post will be invisible to the community and is usually placed in the spam bin, or if extreme deleted immediately. we do get the occasional troll, but these are ignored once they have been blacklisted.

I hope the negative comments didn't upset you? regards Stephen

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Helló Lantos, köszönöm a magyarázatot. Bocsánatot kell kérnem, moderálnom kell, de mostanra annyira elfoglalt vagyok a lányaim felülvizsgálatával. Az általuk megkapott besorolások miatt megkapták az interjút minden fogorvosi iskolában, akiket kérnek, és most már hónapok óta tanítunk neki, és kimerítő volt.

Jelenleg lényegében megjegyzéseket olvasok anélkül, hogy igazán látnám őket (kivéve, ha felderítőket tartalmaznak, vagy nyilvánvalóan a közösség tagjait célozzák. Nem hiszem, hogy Robert szarkasztikusnak, vagy a fejét megharapni akarja, és egyetértek azzal, hogy milyen mértékben azt mondta, hogy a jelenlegi ajándékközösség nagy része élvezi ezeket a játékokat, és jó lenne látni, hogy a különböző műfajok szélesebb választékát adják el, de mások nagylelkűségére és nagyrészt a A közösség nagyon hálás a lehetőségért, hogy ezeket az ingyenes játékokat kapja, és fantasztikus és változatos számú nagyszerű indie játék létezik az összes műfajban, a fő kérdés az, hogy megtalálják azokat a fejlesztőket, akik hajlandóak több ezer helyet adni tőlük. A páratlan indie játék itt van, általában korlátozott Steam kulcsfontosságú giveaway-ként.

Általában itt van egy fantasztikus közösségünk, ahol a legtöbb közösségi tag tiszteli egymást. Ha bármilyen zaklatás, nem megfelelő szavak stb. Vannak, a bűnösöket általában figyelmeztetik a viselkedésük leállítására. Ha folytatódik, akkor a listán szerepelnek a fekete listák, ami azt jelenti, hogy minden hozzászólás láthatatlan lesz a közösség számára, és rendszerint a spam binbe kerül, vagy ha azonnal törlésre kerül. kapjuk az alkalmi trollot, de ezeket figyelmen kívül hagyják, ha azok feketelistára kerültek.

Remélem, hogy a negatív megjegyzések nem idegesítettek meg? Stephenre néz. Ui kérem, hogy kifogásolja a rossz fordítást, Google Fordítót használtam :)

Whiterabbit-uk, Dear moderator, no problem with the community here. Your attitude is very correct, and your style is very good. As you can see, your work is well-known, so you don't need to be free. And if I was ambiguous, sorry! I don't criticize you, I just wanted to, but I understood your reasons first, why is it. Of course I am also happy with the free options! I'm sorry if I have a discussion with someone commenting, and I gave you extra work! There is nothing wrong with me about this forum. More good weekends for you!
Sincerely, Piroska

Kedves moderátor, semmi bajom az itteni közösséggel. A Te hozzáállásodat pedig nagyon korrektnek találom, és a stílusod is nagyon jó. Ahogy látom a munkádat is lekiismeretesen ellátod, szóval semmi szükség szabadkoznod. És ha félreérthető voltam, bocsánat! Én nem bírálni-, csak KÉRNI szerettem volna, de megértettem az indokaidat elsőre is, miért van így. Természetesen örülök az ingyenes lehetőségeknek én is! Sajnálom, ha vitát gerjesztett valakinél a hozzászólásom, és ezzel plusz munkát adtam Neked! Részemről semmi rossz érzés sincsen ezzel a fórummal kapcsolatban. További jó hétvégét nektek!
Üdvözlettel: Piroska

Lantos Piroska,

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Nem kell bocsánatot kérni. :)

Pamela,

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Hi Pamela, It may be your security that is blocking the installation. The giveaway is wrapped in Themida code for protection. Unfortunately Themida code has also been used by some unscrupulous hackers to hide malware; so, some anti malware suites automatically block, and in some cases delete anything containing Themida code.

There are three ways you can sort this; assuming it is your security that is blocking the game installation.

1) ... White-list the giveaway files.
2) ... reboot your computer in safe mode with networking, install the game, then reboot as normal.
3) ... Temporarily turn off your security until the game has been installed.

The giveaway team have been giving games away regularity since October 2006, initially via the main giveaway site, then from Dec 2006 via this dedicated game giveaway site. They have 'never' given away a game infected with malware; so, it's a very good bet that today's game is also safe; add to the fact no one has reported any problems with malware today, it's very unlikely the game has any malware included. If the game had been infected we would have received hundreds of comments about the issue.

If your security software isn't the cause of the issue, please check the FAQ's thread that you can access HERE. The FAQ's thread includes most of the issues that the community have had with game giveaways over the years it's been live. If the FAQ's thread or my suggestion above doesn't help (which i hope it does), please don't hesitate to post another comment.

regards Stephen

Lantos Piroska, Speak for yourself! Just because you don't like them, that doesn't mean we all agree with you. In fact, a majority of people who comes here, do like them. Why do you think they offer so many?

Lantos Piroska,
I am a huge fan of HOGs and love them more than any other game.

Robert,
Wow, calm down! The person was speaking for her/himself and asked a simple question making a polite request to the site mods. No need for such an agressive reply.

jboy, Lantos Piroska actually included the phrase "which everyone does not like". Maybe Robert was just trying to clarify that Many of us do like and appreciate the HOG games. I know I do. :)

Donna,
You may like HOGs, as do I, and had Lantos stated 'which everyone hates', that would be an incorrect statement. However, he/she stated, as you point out, "which everyone does not like". Therefore, if there is even one person who does not like them, that is a correct statement. I stand by my original point, that the hostile tone of Robert's reply was unwarranted.

Donna, Donna, "90% of the games offered here are "Hidden Objects" which NOT EVERYONE likes. Could there be several other types of games at times?"
In fact, I wrote this, but unfortunately I did not check back the google translator as I translated what I wrote in Hungarian.
I never speak on behalf of someone else, as I do not want someone to give me an opinion in my name.
It was a translation error.

"Az itt kínált játékok 90% -a "rejtett tárgy" játék, amelyet NEM MINDENKI szeret. Lehetne-e több más típusú játék is néha?"
Valójában ezt írtam, csak sajnos a google fordítót nem ellenőriztem vissza, miként fordította amit magyarul írtam. Soha nem szoktam más nevében beszélni, ahogy én sem szeretném, ha helyettem mondana valaki véleményt a nevemben. Ez egy fordítói tévedés volt.

Lantos Piroska,
You translated it correctly as I pointed out above. There was nothing wrong with what you stated.

jboy, Thank you! :)

BobR, "like the brightly lit Kitchen scene make many of the objects look like blurry blobs"
Same here on a 1920*1080-screen

BobR,

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Looks like a default 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 resolution from the screen captures I took, which covered two monitors that I'm using at the moment. The game showed up as a tiny square about an 8th of the size of the screen capture despite the game being in full screen mode.. The game is 12 years old, so you could argue that the high res monitors we all have now were only available to those willing to pay thousands of dollars/pounds for one, so the developer didn't bother to increase the resolution of the graphics. I agree, this was a refreshing change from the usual mystery novel HOG's (and, after playing it a while longer actually found it mildly entertaining considering my general avoidance/bias against playing most HOG's

Ootje, My screen resolution is 1920 x 1080 also and I can see and play just fine. Maybe check your screen's brightness setting?