hi hct,Thank you for your post, If you have read the rest of the post in this forum (or even in this thread) then you will see that for most people the service works perfectly fine.anyhow - to your problem I assume that you're having trouble downloading? Did you take a look at our various forum sections etc? I see that you've only posted once so you didn't ask any other users for help in this forum that is dedicated for inter-user help.From your post it seems that you're having trouble contacting our customer support team. This could be because you're not replying to the automatic mail.Let me explain: Our customer support team get so many mails about problems that are very simple to solve that we placed a post on the forum and direct all emails to this post with an autoresponse, if users don't find thier response they are asked to REPLY to this email, not write a new one, to get through to a suppport agent.this is because the email system we use can tell the difference between a reply and a new email. if it's a new email, it'll always send the auto response. so please make sure that you REPLY to the automail. That way you'll get through to a real person.as for refunding. We're, as our partners tell us, a bit too nice when it comes to refunds.If you subscribed and you haven't used the service (we can check), you can prove that none of the games will work on your PC, and you have made a significant effort with our support team to get it working on your PC, then in most cases we refund.You will need to contact our support team for this.

i have also asked for my money back as not been able to use this product and also get told the same thing goto forum or email the place where i emailed in the first place. they just want the first month payment then want you to cancel.so i have and advise the rest of you to do the same find your local office by going to this web sitehttp://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/ ... ers.cfmget the email address for your local office and make a complaint the more they get the quicker it will get sorted.

Quote: I was actually talking more generally about the whole international distribution rights issue with regard to services like Metaboli (UK) and Gametap (US/Canada).

You're talking generally about specific services? Most games are acquired from local publishers who only have local distribution rights themselves. So they have the rights for their region and anything else is outside of their remit. I suspect the reason why people can use Metaboli and Gametap outside these regions is that theres little reason to care about such usage at this point as these types of service are relatively under developed and "small fry". If it becomes highly profitable I guess it'll adopt a similar model to movie distribution where they are highly protective of the region and go to great lengths to stop unauthorized usage.

Quote: And talking of billing address - do services such as this necessarily know a (valid) billing address - they are dealing with a Credit/Debit Card account number they are not sending out monthly bills to addresses.

The billing address is passed to the credit/debit card company as its part of the verification check they do. If the address provided doesnt match the address registered to the card, they wont process the transaction. There isnt much opportunity to provide "fake" billing addresses in card transactions online. So the opportunity is there for Metaboli to filter out overseas users quite easily.

wow o.0i have had nearly no problems what so ever cept for somewhat slow download speeds over X-mas which is not suprrising to be frank seeing as it is the hoildays which lots of people probly downloading from this site as a way to get away from pesky family.this site rocks

I was actually talking more generally about the whole international distribution rights issue with regard to services like Metaboli (UK) and Gametap (US/Canada).And talking of billing address - do services such as this necessarily know a (valid) billing address - they are dealing with a Credit/Debit Card account number they are not sending out monthly bills to addresses.Anyway - this is all way off the original topic - but far more interesting.

ops I made someone quote wrong person sorry!!Actually those free games got very nice to play, I love arcade games it doesn't mean now like new games come out that people are playing, lots of people prefering playing Nintendo or sega and lots of more!I love it^^

Quote: Quote: Quote: Hmmm.I tried stalker, it started at 1000 and settled at 700.Guess ill be playing stalker then.Though my nerves cant handle those games :p Its not that bad (got the CD version).I'm trying to make my own Gauss rifle as i type this.... damn hard to mod but i love stalker to pieces and i cant wait for clear sky. No, no.. This wont work.Cant think of any thing worse than be chased by mutants.And the poltergeist, what the hell is that?Need to be drunk to play this, and I don't drink.I guess I'm a wuss... [:((]

To DionHi, just wanted to tell you I subscribed it yesterday and I am able to play all 900 games, even I am living in Uk. You can try it!

Quote: Quote: Hmmm.I tried stalker, it started at 1000 and settled at 700.Guess ill be playing stalker then.Though my nerves cant handle those games :p Its not that bad (got the CD version).I'm trying to make my own Gauss rifle as i type this.... damn hard to mod but i love stalker to pieces and i cant wait for clear sky.

No, no.. This wont work.Cant think of any thing worse than be chased by mutants.And the poltergeist, what the hell is that?Need to be drunk to play this, and I don't drink.I guess I'm a wuss... [:((]

Does that mean I'm here illegally since I live in Norway?Maybe I should go in to hiding :p

Just bare in mind Gametap is for US and Canadian citizens only (due to publishing rights) and yes even the free ones. Its also worth noting Gametap uses the Exent player just like Metaboli;so you get the same issues