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Remember Popcap Games? They wrote these
really wicky cool games like Bejeweled and Rocket Mania and Alchemy and all
those other nifty things.

One bit I liked was that all their games were in web-enabled form, so I could
try things online before buying or downloading. The downloadable versions were
just Java VM apps, which could run anywhere, so I could play it on my Linux
machines anytime.

Popcap has TOTALLY sold out. Not only are they selling out, they're
completely misleading their userbase.

G'head. Try one of their 'online games'. You can play from the Web! Click
through and check them out.

Oh, btw. Make sure you're running windows. Because their so called 'web
games' won't work on anything but a windows browser environment. Why? Because
they're all ActiveX games.

NOWHERE do they mention this. Their slick marketing-speak pages go on and on
about wonderful web-games and 'play now!' and everything, but at no point do
they mention that they only support Microsoft. Ashamed? Perhaps. Why don't
they mention that? You know, maybe it'd be bad for business if they proclaimed
that their webgames only work on one monopolies' platform.

This is part of a disturbing trend. Had a look at Shockwave.com lately? Lots of interesting
games and toys over there. Oh, very few of them are actually Shockwave / Flash
games. They're mostly downloadable executables for... wait... I'll let you
guess.

Something's shifting back into the Microsoft camp, and it's really beginning
to make me twitch.

Cloned from: Planet Geek!

Category: Life. Don't talk to me about life.

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