Dear Oni,

You need to register through this link like the instructions say: http://www.playsaga.com/gaotd.php

I think that this might still be active, even though this offer is over. Otherwise, you can head over to mmohub.

-Fox

Didn't work for me. I did it within the time limit too, what the hell?!

Dear John,

They are giving away free accounts at mmohub still.

Also, to anyone that is having problems installing it or vista problems, could you please make a post on the official SAGA forums? We might be able to help you there. Ayrik (One of our developer team members) handles a lot of support on the forums, and he should be able to help.

Hope you all enjoyed yourselves. If you missed this or had issues installing it, don't fret, you can still get free accounts else where.

Cheers,

Fox

Thanks Whiterabbit !

Thank you Whiterabbit. I appreciate all your info. Have a great day.

That's true John. Sorry you missed it. It will probably be back sometime in the coming months though. This is the fourth time it's been given away now. If you're interested, you can still get the game for free via several diffeent links. I've posted some above. Though you won't get the free cards nor a registered account. You can earn cards during the game, but the unregistered account does lay some limitations on you such as no pvp matches, as well as some other limitations. Still, the free version will give you an idea as to whether you would have liked the game. Alternatively trry the game I refer to called Rise & Fall of civilizations at War, which is available free. Check out the game synopsis in the forums. (Its a sticky on the front page)

It would have been nice to get some warning or a heads up that they were going to resume weekend game giveaways.

Missed it.

I got the Ice Drake but I didnt get the extra troops, how do I get the extra troops?

please disregard my last post, i found the link at the top of this page *blushes*

hello, I downloaded this yesterday. today I'm trying to register and it's asking me for my referring nation and registration key. i have looked in the saga folder under program folders and i can't find a read me log. I can't seem to find any information in that folder about how to actually register this product so I can use it, could someone please help me? thanks

yeehaa... I am still downloading the installer although i got a 100 MBit internet connection...

HI JOn,

you have to log into your account via the SAGA home pages. not directly from your game. If you login it gives you a list of the cities you own, which as a new player should only be one. from that page you have to log in again (yeah I know it's confusing. Once this is done you should see your troops. Only about half as many as the original giveaway. If you were lucky enought to have installed it the first time and got all those booster packs (10 in all) you will now have been upgraded to a full account; plus, I was lucky enough to catch the email that was sent out within the 5 day time limit to clain an ice thingamajig, lol.

Provoded you created an account via the correct page, which was quoted at the top of the page, you will have those troops and the Ice thingamajig Ah yes an Ice Drake. :)

Hi SAcott, sorry I missed your post; I ended up falling asleep at the keyboard shortly after my last post, otherwise I'd have been able to help. You had to follow the link at the top of the page where it says visit the page. From that page you set up your account. Once that's done you should be okay as far as securing the offer. Though you won't be able to tell what you've got until you've downloaded the client and created your city. Once that's done you log in and can see what troops/cards you have. I hope you sussed it before the offer was over?


Hey Midori, this game isn't your usual online game. you can play on your own accomplishing the many missions, which are bot controlled. Unless you want to get really serious, there's no need to play against other human players until much later in the game, at which point you'll probably like the game a lot. :)


Hi Jean, I see what you're getting at, but i'm 'almost' sure that you will still get your cards once you've created your nation. i hope so anyway as I've been saying as much in a few of my posts above. I decided to see if I could create another account for one of my wife as the accounts i have were in my name and I was allowed to. i wish i'd left naming the city until after the giveaway just so as to test out whether it was true. hopefully, you'll be able to confirm as much by installing the client and creating your city. Once you've done that log in to the accounts page. Once you've done that either click on the name of the city it says you've created, and log in again via the second log in button. I don't know why they want you to log in twice, but it seems that way. Maybe it's just for the first time, when you ply for the first time.

Regards

Whiterabbit.

I know this comment comes too late, but I just finished downloading and installing the game right now. Please correct me if I am wrong, but you cannot redeem the booster packs special offer without first creating a nation in the game. So suppose you have registered online over the last two days using the ggaotd link, but have not installed or created the nation yet, like those folks on slower connections, what happens to the special packs offered. Will we still be able to redeem them with just the active account?
Also thanks to Mr. WR and the others for useful advice.I have never played RTS or MMOGs before, just taking the plunge, hope I don't lose heart midway. Reading through old forum links now.

Hey, GGAOTD Team... a big WELCOME BACK!! Hope you lazed around on your vacation and accomplished absolutely nothing besides having FUN!

I'm not one for onliners, but thanks for posting the game for those who do enjoy it. :)

Thanks for replying Whiterabbit, but the download just completed, 2 full hours later.

I dont understand how to register this new account. What is the Referring Nation and where do you get the Registration Key? Am I on the right registration page? If anyone knows, it would be appreciated.

This was pretty much a bust for me. I registered with the link provided and installed the sagainstaller.exe which did not come in a .zip file with any intstructions, but no Ice Drake and no troops when I log into my account; so why even bother to build anything?

Hi Rachel, Not to worry; so long as you registered the game via the link provided near the top of the page, or in my post #107 in answer to Pammi's post. If you haven't done so already, I would follow that link before the gamegiveaway has finished to create your account and claim the free soldiers and Ice Drake.

The problem with the download is that the giveaway servers and the SAGA servers only have a certain amount of bandwidth. There's probably well over a thousand community members downloading SAGA, which inevitably will slow down any downloads that are underway - and probably accounts for some errors that are occurring, especially over bad land lines - A friend of mine lives a long way out of town and has a really bad dial up connection. Even when he uses the line to phone, it sometimes is so bad he can't use the phone., so I usually download and send him any larger files he may need. I've probably sent a couple of hundred Gigabytes over to him in the last four years.

You DON'T need to download the actual client yet; but you MUST create an account via the link I provided in comment #107; (‘scuze me I’m repeating myself, lol. I should have been in bed hours ago, but wanted to keep an eye on these forums to the last, lol). I've posted links to several different sites where you can download earlier versions of SAGA. (There are other sites where you can download the SAGA client from as well). It really doesn't matter if you download an older version because once you do connect to the SAGA game servers, they will automatically update your game; however, I would try to get the most recent update if you can, because the earlier versions may take a long time to update.

Just to reiterate; once you've registered an account you can leave downloading the client for as long as you want; even to next year and beyond, because you have your registered account. This is not like the usual game giveaway; once you have a registered copy you will have it for life, provided the developer doesn't go bust.

I hope the above has clarified things for you?

To Gamefreqe, most of what I’ve said to Rachel applies to you as well. I know it can be frustrating having such a slow download when you're used to a high speed connection. I'd wait for another day to download the client, though if you are keen to get started try one of the several links I posted earlier.. As I said to Rachel, so long as you have your account registered you'll be okay. :)

Regards

Whiterabbit


p.s.

Wow, the games getting a higher than usual rating this time around it’s 64%, it’s usually around 50%. That's great.

If you are new to R.T.S. (real time strategy) games; don't let the apparent complexity of SAGA put you off playing this game. As I said in my first post; once the controls become familiar, the game becomes much more satisfying to play. When I first started playing these games, I used to create a standing card, with all the important key bindings. I'd also change the key bindings to suit my left handedness as well as for my preferences, for example I prefer the cursor keys for movement to the WASD keys (simply because I'm left handed as mentioned earlier. If you really get into this game I highly recommend purchasing a gaming keyboard. they come in all shapes and sizes, but most have one thing in common and that's the way the keys are set out, it makes playing these complex games that little bit more pleasurable. I use a Wolf King keyboard for a lot of my gaming now rather than the standard keyboard. It’s a round keyboard, and fits one hand perfectly, giving me easy access to over 50 keys with very little hand movement; (very important when you need to quickly change your troop’s configuration, or to call in reinforcements, lol :)

'Scuze my waffling. I took another morphine capsule about half an hour ago. It always makes me very talkative for a few hours before I crash. :)

That said, I'm not actually playing this game anymore now; I stopped several weeks after the very first time this was given away just over a year ago because at that time they were having problems with the server and nearly every time I completed a mission and was heading for the portal, the game would crash and lose all my progress. I got so fed up I decided not to bother with it again; but that was a year ago, and from what I’ve read from bluehoteyes, the game plays much better now. Still, I'm playing what I consider a far superior game called Empire: total War. The only thing that Empire lacks is a persistent world; otherwise it has everything else that SAGA has, apart from the magical aspect of the game (Empire: Total War is based on true facts).

Damn your server is SLOW. The download speed for this game is CRAWLING. I've downloaded games at over 2.5 megabytes per second before, and this thing can barely hit 1 kilobyte.

Hi GGAOTD, I am so dissapointed that the saga installer didn't work, I tried downloading from gamegiveawayoftheday and after 7 hours of downloading it said it was missing files and to run it again, I did through the saga page and the same thing happened. It says:Saga has not been totally installed because of the following reason, audio/music/nature_domain1.gom:( this file contains invalid data) You will have to run this utility again to completly install saga.
What a let down, did anyone else solve this? I am out of time
Rach

Hi Merrysea,,

I'd still keep your account active as eventually you will get a video card or a new computer with a video card that will support the game. In fact, I have a spare video card that is of no use to me because all my Motherboards do not support AGP graphic cards. (Actually I have two, but have promised the other to another giveaway user) If your Motherboard supports AGP you are welcome to have the graphics card for nothing. It's an NVidia 7500 GS 128Mb card. If you're not sure what type of socket your motherboard has, unplug the computer from the mains and open up the side. Make a note of the motherboards model and name then Google it on the net. You should then find details of the motherboards specifications. AGP sockets are slowly being phased out, but some manufacturers still make them with AGP, though the standard at the moment is PCI-E. Another way to tell whether the Motherboard has an AGP socket or a PCI-E socket is to find an image of each socket type then compare them with the one on your motherboard. If you are interested, go to the forums (if you haven't registered, do so, then PM me). I’ll give you my email and then exchange addresses. I’ll happily send you the card for nothing.

Just in case anyone is having problems downloading the SAGA client from either the links above or from the SAGA site (due to the servers being overloaded), you can also download the client from any of the sites I've listed below. Some are older versions, for example one of them is less than 300Mb, however, this is not a problem as the game will be updated once you sign in with your account when you want to play it for the first time. I would recommend going for the most recent one if you can though, as the older ones may take quite some time to update. If you have a poor internet connection, and there's any possibility that a break occurs the update could be corrupted and you'd have to start afresh. Jusy a though. all the sites apart from filefront haven't been given WOT ratings yet, so I can't vouch for the integrity of these sites:


http://files.filefront.com/Saga+Client+Updated/;12393835;/fileinfo.html

And there are loads more :



http://www.bestfreewaredownload.com/freeware/t-free-saga-freeware-vfjvpsbu.html

http://www.sharewareconnection.com/download-saga-from-sharecon.html

http://www.brothersoft.com/saga-80505.html


http://www.mofunzone.com/download_games/saga_client.shtml (older version at only 282Mb)

http://www.fiberdownload.com/Download/14046/Saga

regards

Whiterabbit.

p.s.

Have a great week folks. Don’t forget to check in to see what excellent free games are posted in the forums. We’ve had some brilliant ones over the past month. Wizzard is taking my slot this week because I filled in for him last week. rO will be posting as usual next Friday and possibly the weekend as well.

I tried and tried to play this game when it was first given away. I was able to download and install but never able to log in and play. The forum at Saga was very helpful but it turned out that my video card wouldn't work with the game even though my computer wasn't more that 18 months old at the time (HP Media Center - XP SP2 at the time).

I just wanted to mention this to people who might be having problems.

Still wish I could play it but haven't been able to upgrade.
Welcome back GGOTD!

Thumbs down here.

As posted this is a re-issue of a game that was issued a few months back. I had issues with original download, and then spent several weeks talking to tech support only to find out my computer will not support the game due to no video card.

Their response "buy a better computer!". I requested they cancel my account and to date they have not, and I still get e-mail from the company about game issues and upgrades.

this company is not responsive to users needs or wishes.

Hi charlene, w.r.t. download times, it really depends upon what sort of connection you have. My average download speed is over 1.2Mb per second, so it took around 7 minutes to download; conversly if you have a dial up speed of say around 50Kps, it's going to take around 2.7 hours. At a download speed of say 20Kps, which may be the case if loads of community members are downloading it's going to take around 6.7hours. As mentioned above, you can download the client from SAGA's download page at any time so long as you've registered an account. Using a download manager that allows you to resume a stopped download it could be accomplished in stages.

If you haven't got any r.t.s. games I'd say it's well worth getting. alternatively I've posted details of a great free all the time r.t.s. game in the forums called Rise & Fall of Civilizations at War, which you can check out via the following link:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4359

It's slightly smaller at only 410Mb. It is add supported, but you only get banner adverts in the menu's and not in game. Follow the link above for some You tube videoas of game play.

Not an RTOS type of guy, but I am happy the Give-a-Way is posting games again and just wanted to tout that. Glad the vacation, though well deserved, I'm sure, is over with. :)

I got it installed, works fine but I think my laptop cannot run this game.. what a pity.. :(

does this work for Vista? i have read mixed reports. how long does this take to download?

I got back for half hour or so.. logged in.. I still don't see ther giveaway stuff.. I wrote suppoprt.. no answer.. I regitered at the right place and got my e=mail.. was thee anything else I am missing ?

Every day seems to be 48 hours for game GAOTD

I like precisions and exactitude

Sorry to be borrow...

Well I have used the link that has the GAOTD on it and I registered myself and my son. Both accounts show registered with no units. I will email their support as see if I get a response.

thanks whiterabbit, i'm good now. i kept getting that error over and over, kept trying because i thought it might be heavy traffic to blame, then finally gave up. tried again about an hour later and it connected no problem.

Hi Steve comment #108, thanks for your advice, the above you've detailed is very good advice and should stand any newcomer to the game in good stead. If you have time would you post it in the forum thread that I've linked to in my first post. If you don't read this i may copy it over later and credit it to you. :)

regards

WR

When you first log on make sure you give the same user name and password. Otherwise it will create a trial acct for you without the specials here.

Contrary to what was said on other site. You really can play this for free. Is it as easy as buying things? No. When is it? It is possible to get every troop in the game given time. You just need to decide am I going to do quest for 100 hours to get this great troop or just buy it. Now that said I would suggest buying three Dragons/Flying Forterss. Should run around $10. They will make it so you can do some far more productive quest far easier. They will make the game less frustrating at first. But there are people constantly on the game that will join you to get you pass a difficult territory quest. They will help you get the free lvl 20 Ice Drake so you will have two. Ask in chat it seldom takes more than a few minutes.

If you do decide to go the free route. Use game gold to buy 12 Light Calv and 12 Heavy Calv. Light Infantry is also good. Many players use these troops to build large powerful armies. They are useable in all six Nations. You will want more Human Archers as well later on. Build full units, partial seldom work well. Trade for some Spells, then for some Flying units and so on. Many have built large armies this way but most decide it is easier to part with some money. There are also some free offers that provide credits used to trade for troops or buy them from Saga.

Go to playsaga.com if you can't get the installer to work. You can download it from there directly. They also link to forum help. It is down sometimes for mostly brief periods but longer if they do a patch (Thursdays generally). Sometimes you just need to try back later. They try very hard to keep it up all the time during shorter promotions like this it seems.

Hi Pammi comment #105,

And anyone else who thinks they only have the unregistered version of the game. You have to visit the following page to create an account. The address is specifically for Gamegiveaway users and will expire around 13 hours from the time of this post:

http://www.playsaga.com/gaotd.php

You don't have to download the actual client from the download link provided here at the gamegiveaway site. You can download the client directly from SAGA. This means anyone on dial up should still be able to get this game and play it as they can use a download manager and download the client at their leisure

Hi Terry from Canada, (comment #102),

Thank for your kind words, though wizzard of oz and reverseOrder have been helping as well. All three of us have been trying to find the best free games possible. rO will be continuing to provide a free alternative to the weekend free games from the main GameGiveaway project.

As for this being a double day – Whenever SAGA has been given away it’s always been a double day. I really don’t know why some community members complain about this. At least the gamegiveaway team are back, and I’m sure they are going to have some great games for us in the coming months. So what if we get lots of ‘dross’ games, the point is we are getting FREE. As many have said before, if you don’t like it come back another time. There’s always going to be a day when there is a game you’re going to like. AND, besides, if you are really looking for a particular type of game and it never seems to be appearing here, why don’t you buy it. Games have come down in price amazingly over the last few years that the game giveaway started. That’s one of the reasons they are finding it harder to get free games. I recently downloaded the Steam client (was forced to actually after buying a couple of games that would only work via the client. They have amazing game bargains every weekend. I’ve bought over 70 games via steam since January, most of which have been purchased at a fraction of the usual price. For example last weekend I bought Red Orchestra for only £2.99. and purchased a second copy of Empire: total War which is this weekends offer for less than £18. I wanted it because you get some special forces which can give you an advantage later in the game. You can buy the standard game for less than £15. The reason I mention Empire is because it’s a state of the art real time strategy game that’s on the same lines as SAGA except you play battles in real world events from the British establishing Jameson Town, to fighting the French, the War in India and across Europe. The graphics are amazing (compared to SAGA, which look like its from the dark ages in comparison (not meaning to knock the game as I do happen to think it’s a great game for free. Empire: total War has both single player and Multiplayer options as well. The Steam offer ends tonight (though the weekend offers seem to last until the morning of Monday in the UK. But I presume that’s due to time zones. If you’re interested you can get a Steam client from the following address:

http://store.steampowered.com/


Here's a link to a whole load of you tube videos of Empire: Total War:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=Empire+total+war&aq=f

You have to create an account, but that’s free. There are some games available such as Half Life 2 – Deathmatch and Half Life 2 – Lost coast available for free if you have either an NVidia or ATI graphics card. If you get those you could join the giveawayoftheday Steam community in their next match which is on July 4th. See the forums for more details nearer the time.

Hi zagnut comment #95,

Have you actually created your account using the link I’ve provided above? If so I wouldn’t worry too much at this juncture. It could be that the sudden influx of new users is overpowering the SAGA servers. I had a similar problem when I first tried to play this game. Do ensure you’ve got your registration and then just keep trying to play the game. Maybe it needs updating?



Finally, if there are any relative newcomers to this project. The community has posted an incredible number of freeware games (well over 700 now), some of which were commercial until recently as well as loads of old abandonware games. You can find a large list with links to the appropriate post in the forums game synopsis which was put together by G@rgoyle:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4534

I downloaded from the site mentioned on the download page...

To take advantage of this offer players must "visit the page" created for this offer. Any account created from this "URL" will become fully registered with additional account bound troops.

You must click on either of those links --URL-- or Visit --This Page--

I installed on Vista 32 ... I cannot get back to log in page (Which I got to fine this morning at 4AM ... so I have not seen my credits. But I registered a use name and got their response in my junk mail... Hope this helps and hope they find out why the links all of a sudden are not working on the GAOTD download page. Its the only way to get the credit... it needs to connect to... http://www.playsaga.com/gaotd.php ... it seems to be working again.. but I am out of time right now... hope this helps... it will say Welcome GAOTD when you go to registration page!

I downloaded the file direct from SAGAs website without problems, my question is how do I know I received the extra troops and drake? I don't even see a drake on my account.

This seems like a great opportunity. A $20 game for free plus a little extra to go along with it. An online game, too.

Also, for those complaining about the size, that's nothing compared to games I've downloaded. An example, Crysis Warhead. It's 15GB, which is over 30x this amount.

Guys, this is an online game. You get the "serial key" using the registration link.

That is all. Download and play when you want.
Just make sure you have internet connection

Happy to see GGOTD's return; thanks to Whiterabbit(etal) for keeping things interesting during the vacation.
I am not very well versed when it comes to this type of game (prefer puzzles and word), however I decided to download SAGA because it looked like fun and I am always open to trying more extensive gaming. The process of downloading ended up with me being confused, a little afraid of the subsequent downloads (Acrobat), incertitude, and difficulty comprehending the help files for beginners. I finally gave up on the game only to find it again today, and I am wondering if all of the additional material could be integrated so a novice like myself has half a chance to understand the program.

Thank you GGOTD for providing a great service!

(Whiterabbit - thank you for your assistance and reviews of all games; I missed you on GOTD during the last while as well glad to see you here.)

The download looks like it is giving the right file which is huge. I still have not finished the download yet. I will see if it works. That tiny file they had before did nothing, but give the same error message over and over. Glad to the the Game Giveaway back. Hope to see them again next weekend.

Awe, come on. Yesterday I was glad to see you're back, but the same game for 2 days? It was bad enough when you went to weekends only. But now is it always going to be only 1 game per week?? Pretty soon you will phase out the games altogether.

Ok i cant seem to reqister this game. When i played the game, certain boxes came up that says you need the full verison in order to access this feature. This told me that this gmae is still a trial version. Can anyone tell me how to activate it??

Welcome back team! Thanks for the game, hope yall had some time for fun and relaxation during your vaca! And to poster #93, the norm around here is for a lot of people to complain. Some people don't seem to understand the courtesy that the ggaotd team along with various game companies are providing here. Either way, that sucks about your pc, hope someone can help, this game looks cool, i just don't have the time to invest in something like this.

thanks, installed ok but 'Error: connection try exceeded' when trying to create my nation :( anybody else? i disabled firewall etc still no luck. somebody hep me pleez

this is one I have suggest to everyone. I've been playing since the last time it was given away and I absolutely love it. incredible amount of fun

The download wasn't in zip format and there is no readme file. Based on other GOTD downloads I think this is missing something.
Does anybody have it or know where it can be found?

Jeez, where were my manners yesterday?

Thank you so much for letting us play this game for free! :D

What troops other than the Ice Drake were you supposed to get?

I got this the 1st. time it was offered. Didn't care for it. Uninstalled, unsubscribed from their email a couple times [at least i thought i did]. I still to this day get spam from them wanting me to play. Not a good sign if you ask me.

Thanks for fixing the download link :) hopefully will work this time. And Mr. WR I am huge fan of your posts, am a quiet lurker so don't comment much.