I LOVE BIG FISH GAMES! Whenever I have a problem with a game, I email them and I get a response within a few hours. Also, when a game wasn't working, they gave me me credit without my asking for it. I pay $6.99 plus tax and I get almost all of the really cool games. I try every game for an hour before hand so I never buy a game I don't like. I can't tell you how many times (before finding BIG FISH) I bought games at Best Buy for $20 each and I was bored senseless!
I love my Big Fish Game Club!

I buy my games from Big Fish and Shockwave. I think they are the best around. I have never had a problem with either of them, and chose no when asked if I wanted to install the toolbar.

I always get my games from Big Fish Games....I have only gotten one other game somewhere else and that is a game I got from the dell website when I got my new dell...it is called "Fate" and I really like it too. Haven't played it any since I found VVI and VVII....seems like all my time is taken up with my little children and their tribes.

I have never had any problem and I personally love the tool bar. I go right to Team Bingo...it is much faster.

Virtual Villager: The Lost Children is only my 3rd game ever to get from online. The first two games, which just happen to also be LDW games, are Virtual Villager: A New Home and Fish Tycoon.

I bought Virtual Villager: A new home from Arcade Town.
Fish Tycoon I got from LDW, and Virtual Villager: The Lost Children I got from Big Fish.

I much prefer having the CD and so try and wait for the games to be released to retail on CD. However, the one hour trial play of Virutal Villager was not enough and I had to have this game. I was hooked. Upon finding the LDW homepage and Fish Tycoon, well what can I say, LDW makes fun addictive games, I couldn't wait for them to come to CD.

I can't say that I won't purchase anymore online games, but for me they would have to rival the LDW games. So far LDW has blown away any competition they might have had and so the chances of me buying more online games only depends on when LDW comes out with Plant Tycoon and the next installment of Virtual Villagers

Big Fish has the exclusive rights to VV2 is the ONLY reason i bought from them, i had to take out 3 things they tried to put into my computer just for buying that one game, they are the worst i've ever used for adding in unwated stuff

Mary obviously you never tried AOL or had to deal with getting rid of all sorts of hidden junk from it. At least Big Fish gives you the option to uncheck items when you download. That's far better than many sites, gaming or otherwise. Also, alot of the game sites these days seem to give you the "more games" icon, but it's easy to get rid of it if you don't want it on your system.

I'll never buy from Big Fish again. And I do hope they'll give me money back for this so I can buy it later from somewhere else. I cannot get the game to authenticate and Big Fish's fix includes adjusting my security settings which I don't want to do and I've never had to do for any game I've purchased in the past (including Fish Tycoon and VVI). That and their toolbar which you can opt out of, but just feels like spyware to me. I can't even run the demo anymore because any new download just tries to authenticate and then hangs up.

I'll definitely never buy from Big Fish again.

Rach

Check out my response to your other post about Big Fish Games.

Thank you, Barbara!

Rach

I always buy from Iwin because their prices are really good. They don't have VVII yet, but say they will in a couple weeks.