find a fire hydrant

[deVada2]

Dear Slitherine.
After finding 45 fire hydrants, 25 pedestrian crossings and 15 bicycles I have decided not to buy anything from you untill you stop abusing me with google machine learning (co called captcha).

Google is too powerful already, why are you inflating it?

Glad I can at least login to this forum without google scripts.

[zakblood]

no real answer to that, everything is in place for a reason

[RFalvo69]

ORIGINAL: zakblood

no real answer to that, everything is in place for a reason

...Until what is in place surpasses the reason.

[Hellen_slith]

ORIGINAL: zakblood

no real answer to that, everything is in place for a reason

If the reason is to drive away customers, it is working.

I, too, walked away from a purchase because of that.

Wallet closed.

[zakblood]

so you'd all like it open?

so every spambot in the world can come and post each and every day the bring the forums to it's knee's?

and break it for everyone, sounds great, i'll pass on the messages to admin as it's them that make the rules, i'm just a user same as all you, my opinions are my own, it's been in place well before i came, and i'd guess it may be here well after i'm gone, but maybe wrong, who knows what a new board / forum will bring, like a new years, things change

[Hellen_slith]

ORIGINAL: zakblood

so you'd all like it open?

so every spambot in the world can come and post each and every day the bring the forums to it's knee's?

That is a specious argument that does not address the issue.

What I (and others, no doubt) want is the ability to simply purchase a game and shop without going through these unnecessary hoops. I shop on other web sites that work just fine with a simple login.

Just like this forum works just fine with a simple log in.

[zakblood]

fair point, i'm just pointing out, that's imo it's better with the protection on, than off, then again i look after the forums etc, so each to their own, been passed on, so hopefully soon someone from staff will pop along and give their comments on it also

[IainMcNeil]

Sadly without things like Captcha we get massive amounts of spam and stolen credit cards using scripts place lots of false orders where we lose thousands of dollars. We understand its frustrating but we try to keep it to a minimum.

Sadly, being a gaming site, where you can buy something from us, get a steam key, which can be resold on other sites, means people can actually make a criminal living out of it. We fight them but to defeat them have to make life slightly harder for normal users to buy. I wish we didnt have to!

[Hellen_slith]

Ok, I just navigated through the store from a new computer / new device, and I did not encounter the captcha ...

but I did not navigate all the way through, so I'm not sure if that is still required or not to complete a purchase.

I'll try it again with the CC and if it lets me through, I'll buy. If I have to look at pictures, I won't.

And to whomever added that discontinued game I wanted to buy but couldn't ... I just did the download gratis, so ... THANK YOU, whoever you are.

My TOAW collection is almost complete. Just need to find that TOAW I disc.

[zakblood]

I just did the download gratis

downloading is one thing, without a serial number means playing is something else

[Lobster]

ORIGINAL: Hellen_slith

Ok, I just navigated through the store from a new computer / new device, and I did not encounter the captcha ...

but I did not navigate all the way through, so I'm not sure if that is still required or not to complete a purchase.

I'll try it again with the CC and if it lets me through, I'll buy. If I have to look at pictures, I won't.

And to whomever added that discontinued game I wanted to buy but couldn't ... I just did the download gratis, so ... THANK YOU, whoever you are.

My TOAW collection is almost complete. Just need to find that TOAW I disc.

Amazon has new and used copies.

[Hellen_slith]

Serial number was included

So it is all good!

[Hellen_slith]

ORIGINAL: IainMcNeil

you can buy something from us, get a steam key, which can be resold on other sites, means people can actually make a criminal living out of it.

With all due respect, that does not make sense.

But I do not have a criminal mind.

To me, if what you say were true, every site (no matter WHAT they sell) would be using the Googly "look at the picture and tell us what you see" routine to defeat these nefarious and cunning criminals to which you refer.

I maintain that that is an unnecessary "gate" which is driving customers away from your door.

Including me, if I encounter it.

[zakblood]

ORIGINAL: Hellen_slith

ORIGINAL: IainMcNeil

you can buy something from us, get a steam key, which can be resold on other sites, means people can actually make a criminal living out of it.

With all due respect, that does not make sense.

But I do not have a criminal mind.

To me, if what you say were true, every site (no matter WHAT they sell) would be using the Googly "look at the picture and tell us what you see" routine to defeat these nefarious and cunning criminals to which you refer.

I maintain that that is an unnecessary "gate" which is driving customers away from your door.

Including me, if I encounter it.

But I do not have a criminal mind.

stating you got something for free, eg didn't pay for it, gratis implies otherwise i'm sorry to say[:(]

Serial number was included

So it is all good!

[Hellen_slith]

Your attempt to impugn my integrity is so laughably wrong, it doesn't even deserve this reply.

Thankfully, this web site at least provides the means to ignore that sort of ilk.

Bye!

[IainMcNeil]

Guys if you are able to download the installer it means you already have a serial registered, which is also why you see the serial. You must have purchased it a long time ago and forgotten about it. There is no way to download a game without having purchased it, unless the game is actually free, like Order of Battle. Discontinued games are not automatically given for free. They are usually discontinued as they have been replaced by more up to date versions or we no longer have the rights.

[Hellen_slith]

Looked to start buying a game today.

Found a FaceBook script originating from Matrix, trying to track me.

I didn't get a screen shot of that, only this.

Closed wallet.

Do not track me. I wonder how many other customers turn around because of this?

[Blond_Knight]

ORIGINAL: Hellen_slith


Do not track me. I wonder how many other customers turn around because of this?

Not nearly enough, or sites would stop trying this crap.


Thats OK nothing I want either. I gave my 50% off coupon away a couple months ago for the same reason.