I've been gone for 12 days, and before I left, I placed a notice about the fact that downloads would be disabled on the main page and on every download page. I just finished deleting the 119 e-mails of people complaining that a particular download didn't work

I don't know if you received my ICQ message, but I actually replaced your download script (which was producing errors because of incorrect chmod of your log files) with a static page placing the message about the downloads being offline in the centre of the page! Now you experience what happened to me when my ftp downloads somehow died - stupidity in its purest form

I got your message; many thanks for that. I was trying frantically to finish up a few things here and didn't give it much thought.

It's just so damn frustrating: did all the people forget how to read?

In case this helps you at least a bit: even I - even though I removed all download links from my site - receive some occasional e-mails at the moment asking why the download doesn't work. Huh? Which fucking download link are these people talking about?

:o Now that's really ridiculous... The good news is that more and more people are commenting on my reviews, arguing with my conclusions. It's strange: there's a group of people who actually reads the whole review, and then there's a much larger group of people who don't bother to read a simple one-liner...

Yes, maybe there will be a change in the audience of our sites now - it would be all for the better, at least as far as I'm concerned...

I would not complain... However, I give it very little chance, considering that people ignore the fact you don't have any download links to begin with. It would be interesting to know how many e-mails like that is MobyGames receiving .

Well, it could be 'old visitors' who have still seen the former download links. And there are still quite a lot of hints on the site that it 'once' featured game downloads: the disclaimer, the FAQ etc. I don't think the people who ignore a bold text above my news (saying it is a review site with no downloads) will read those 'hidden' references though, so it is kind of strange. Actually, I answered one of these e-mails and sent the (C64) game to the visitor: he had found a section on the C64 help page telling the text command to download something but it of course didn't work - had to give him credit for trying this command line

http://www.angusm.demon.co.uk/AGDB/Pirate.html

Seems like you were right: people ask for games no matter what the site is and has been! In this case, a pure review site without a real design or any screenshots - just reviews. Still, people are asking for the games. How utterly stupid

I love that site! It's one of the best review sites around, and while sometimes I don't fully agree with their reviews, their consistency is almost legendary. I would've never thought people would ask them for game downloads .

Since you're not interested in Amiga, you shouldn't like that site

It's got many games that were ported to DOS or vice versa

So what? It's not the same.

Maybe the presentation is different, but I found that the gameplay is pretty much the same, at least for those games I played in DOS and they reviewed for Amiga.

Yes, so the conclusion has to be different since graphics are everything!

Here's a good one: I was just invited to join a warez ring .

Maybe the broken download links attracted them - that is a sign of quality on warez sites, isn't it?

Hehe... Probably

I always got a kick of it when someone invited me to join a warez ring, but this is the first one who asked me after the downloads were disabled

You don't actually think this person read that the downloads are disabled, do you?

Of course I don't think so, but it's still funny