Roleplaying games

Today got an email of a friend of mine, that was all pissed because couldn’t find the quest mode in the card/rpg game I reviewed some months ago, “Magic Stones”. After a brief discussion with him in chat, I found out the problem: he didn’t buy from the original author, but from another site!!!

Often portals or other online resellers have old/outdated versions on their sites, so if you find a demo on a portal that interests you, is always better to try to buy it directly from the author to avoid surprises. It isn’t developers fault, since mostly are forced to accept such deals to earn more money to support themselves. And portals don’t update their games, so if the author 2-3 months later adds new feature/updates, the portals version is always outdated.

You must be careful about search engine ranking problems though, because often you would just do a search for the “gamename”, and not always the first result is the original developer. So in this case if you do a search on Google for the word “Magic Stones” you could find yet another portal reselling the old version. Unfortunately Google just places the result based on the “link” power, so a portal could easily get on 1st places.

What is the solution then? easy! – just google for the developer name! in this case, search “Winter Wolves”, or for other good roleplay games like Avernum, etc, always google for the author/developer name, like “Spiderweb”.

That way, you’ll buy directly from author supporting himself and his hard work, and also you won’t have unpleasant surprises!

Hope this tip will be useful to someone.