If you read their Support page here it explains a lot of it. It sounds pretty handy and easy to use.

Ana

No, it skirts all around the reason but never gives it.

Gil.

Hi Gil,

this is quite simple; we had two choice to 'protect' the games and the developers, while trying to limit piracy.

The first was to give activation code for the games and let the user download the games from the browsers: but we feel this is a limiting choice! You can't change PC, you can't play on more machine, the links expire etc. So we decided to use a client software to activate the games: it's small, not at all 'heavy' for your PC and it has a lot of nice, simple features. Plus you can login in your account from whenever you are and download/play your games immediately, without searching for links, asking permissions and so on.

I'm sorry you don't like the system and I invite you to try it (with a Demo, for example).

Thanks!

Thanks for stopping by Zodiac store! I thought it had some great features as well.

Ana

Dear Zodiac_Store,

It was very gracious of you to reply but for me the choice is no choice at all and I must decline.

All the same, thank you for having the courtesy to explain your position clearly to everyone.

Gil.

just downloaded this game but it will not play also can,t find it anywhere on my computer any help appreciated. zodiac contacted me immediately after sending email solved problem thanking you tracee

Glad you got it sorted out. Have fun!

Must admit I felt as you do initially but I went ahead anyway and had some problems with a 301 error as the game itself wouldn't download. anyway, cutting a long story short, with help from the Zodiac people I eventually did manage to download everything and am very glad I did. No problem at all with having Zodiac in my machine and certainly easy to access the game and the fact that you can access your game on your other computers is, I think, a bonus. I've already had a problem with another game when I had to upgrade the computer and at the time didn't have a laptop, but with Zodiac I could have simply downloaded and accessed the game from that instead of having to start the whole process from the start when I got the new computer - of course the whole thing is "horses for courses".

Will the game play on XP SVGA s3 graphics?

There is a link in the first post for a demo. It is best to try it out and see Cruise.

Ana

I just tried to d/l the demo, but I just can't. I got to the zodiac website ok, but ther're no d/l link for the demo. Flash Player is newly installed (from the link at the site).
Help?

WE'll have to wait for someone who has downloaded it Cruise. Did you sign up and download the client?

I am not sure if this is how the demo works since I played the whole game from start.

- Try downloading the Zodiac downloader - by clicking on the text link at top right of Zodiac webpage.
- Then download the demo by clicking on the "free" demo link.
- Then open the zodiac downloader and check "games".
- Open or play the demo.

Ok, I d/l Zodiac, but I still cannot find the d/l link to the demo. Its simply not there.

The only thing that I can find on the zodiac page is where you have to sign up - and it requires that you enter your payment info, address, etc. Why didn't you tell me I had to sign up if I wanted to d/l the demo?

We stated that you have to have the "Zodiac download software" to download the demo-game from that site.

OR you could have read the rules on that site yourself. If you didn't want to - you could have stopped.

As for the demo - click on the frame "to buy" beside the FREE text on the demo page.