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Fair Warning to new or previous Big Fish customers.

I purchased my first Big Fish game over 5 years ago. Up until last week I've never had a problem. Last week I downloaded my 6th Big Fish game. Can you spell HighJack!!! They pushed (forced) a front end Big Fish game loader onto my computer. No choice, no option to refuse, no nothing... just loaded it without permission.

I'm very particular about how I manage my computer files. I partition my drives and every game or application has its own category where I file corresponding information.

On the last download I entered my credit card number (i.e., paid for the game) and completed the download. As it turns out the downloaded file was only an executable. When it was launched, it linked back to the Big Fish games site and started the download... the problem is it interrogated my hard drives, found all the other Big Fish games I had installed, verified they were all licensed valid copies, then downloaded and installed a resource wasting GUI interface as well as several icons on my desktop. The GUI interface is a type of fancy full screen launch pad for all the Big Fish games on your computer.

While some people might like to have all their games pop up in one menu I don't need it. I know where my games are and how to launch them. The download 'that I paid for" never gave me a choice to decline the stupid interface or even select where on my computer I might want it installed. I also don't like a game site linking my computer back to their server and snooping around my computer for other versions of their games. All my games are registered originals but I couldn't help but wonder what the program might have done if it found an unregistered version of a game. Would they have disabled it?

Anyway... It took me over hour to remove the Big Fish interface and all traces of it from the registry. The good news is the actual game I paid for works fine. So... unless you want Big Fish games taking over your desktop and installing utilities without your approval then you might want to avoid Big Fish games.

NET: Big Fish has lost me as a customer! I actually found PlayFirst after I went looking for a new source for my games. I haven't found any bad press about PlayFirst pushing unwanted software with their games so I'm getting ready to download Dream Chronicles 1 & 2. I sure the PlayFirst downloads only contain the game (and not any surprise packages)