Bookworm Deluxe RIP-OFF by Yahoo Games, Oberon Media, PopCap Games, I-Play and Big Fish Games

‎Thursday, ‎January ‎02, ‎2014  1:00am

I am FURIOUS over Bookworm Deluxe being such a RIP-OFF!!

I am probably sounding like a mad woman because I'm so angry, but I had to vent somehow, NONE of theses companies make it easy to get any answers or help.

I can't find any e-mail addresses for these companies to lodge a complaint against YahooGames, Oberon Media, PopCap Games, I-Play and Big Fish Games, so I'm posting this online in hopes that someone somewhere can tell me how to get my game without having to jump through fiery hoops and wasting DAYS of my valuable time!!

I am so furious I can hardly type. ALL I WANT TO DO IS PLAY BOOKWORM DELUXE. I have PAID for the damned game at least twice, but I keep getting shuffled around.  So far I've had to deal with at least FIVE companies, and I still do not have my game even though I've bought it twice.

Unfortunately, I've had about four computers over the years, and when my computers crashed, I lost the game.  I have never had a CD for Bookworm Deluxe, and that is the problem. HAD I received a CD, I could simply load it onto the computer again and not have to play stupid mind games with multiple companies who all want to either charge me AGAIN or install other files on my computer, neither of which I want.

I do NOT want to download any damned tool bars or game managers, I just want MY game to play on my PC without any interference from "Game Companies".  I don't want any other games.  My ONLY "game of choice" IS Bookworm Deluxe, which is WHY I purchased it in the first place!
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I originally ordered Bookworm Deluxe from Yahoo Games; Here is the information concerning my original purchase:
Yahoo Games 11-21-2004
Yahoo! Games Downloads Order Confirmation
Order #:  43430796  Invoice #:  37509730
Invoice Date:  11/21/2004  Login ID: moonspiri
Order Summary  Quantity 1  Product Bookworm Deluxe
Amount   $24.99
Sub Total  $24.99   Tax (0%)  $  0.00  Total Charge     $24.99
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After one computer crashed, I tried to re-download the game again from Yahoo!, but was somehow referred to Oberon Media.  On November 01, 2012, I did receive the following Registration Key from Derrick at Oberon Support via Yahoo:  E4CC-AF14-4936-0027-2B74-1CA5-0033-53A9-D616-66C4-C535-159A 

However, I do not know how or where I can RE-Download the game and get to a place where I can even ENTER the RegKey without first being asked to purchase it again.
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FINALLY, out of Desperation, I again purchased the game from Big Fish Games,  Order Details:  Order Number: 194061611
Order Placed On: 10/05/13 03:31:28 PM
DESCRIPTION                        QUANTITY          PRICE       SUBTOTAL
- Bookworm Deluxe                     1             $ 2.09          $ 2.09
- Big Fish Game Club Membership    1             $ 0.00          $ 0.00
Subtotal: $ 2.09   Tax: $ 0.00   Total: $ 2.09 USD
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Big Fish Games want me to join their "Game Club". I ONLY want to play Bookworm Deluxe on MY Computer, I don't want to be downloading tool bars or joining "Game Clubs".

I want to have the game that I have paid for twice and just play it and be LEFT ALONE.  I'm 68 years old and have health problems, I don't need the aggravation of all the game sites. 

I am really VERY unhappy because I originally purchased the game from Yahoo! Games and since then, they have referred me to Oberon Media, PopCap Games, then to I-play, etc. 

Not only have I NOT had access to my game, but I HAVE SPENT LITERALLY HOURS and HOURS trying to find a solution to this mess. If I wasn't trying to survive on my poverty-level Social Security income I would have purchased the game again to save myself all the stress of trying to get it back again.

I don't WANT another game, if I can't get Bookworm back I don't want ANY game, but I am extremely unhappy that I EVER bought a game from Yahoo and probably never will again, and I will caution everyone I know about doing so.

I don't want to have to contact customer support through multiple companies (I.E. Yahoo Games, Oberon Media, PopCap Games, I-Play and Big Fish Games!)

WHY can't I just get the game on CD and install it myself with NO interference or superfluous  "add-ons" from ANY "Game Companies"??

I TOLD John Boehner: I SUPPORT THE PUBLIC OPTION!

Mr. Boehner, it is highly obvious that you do not associate with voters in the working class EXCEPT AT ELECTION TIME.

What will YOU do when you get voted OUT of office and no longer have the GOOD Insurance that WE BUY for you and others of your ilk?

What goes around, comes around, see how the Greedy Insurance Companies care about YOU when YOU no longer have PAID Insurance.

It will be interesting when the opponents of Health Care Reform DO get voted OUT, and they WILL, because the MAJORITY of people in this country are FED UP with having lawmakers wasting our time and our hard-earned tax dollars!

WE have to DO the work WE get paid for, why don't YOU?

WE ARE TIRED OF TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION, which is what we mostly have right now with the current Republicans and the Blue Dog Democrats!

The majority of the current Republicans and the Blue Dog Democrats are all taking HUGE Bribe money from the Insurance Industry, and
WE VOTERS ARE NOT DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND, AS YOU APPARENTLY ASSUME US TO BE.

I will be GLAD to see all you opposers who have NOTHING to offer anyone (except idle talk and vicious character attacks) GET VOTED OUT OF OFFICE INTO REALITY where you belong, and I will do everything I can to MAKE it happen.

I SUPPORT THE PUBLIC OPTION!

MY RANT AGAINST MALE DESIGN ENGINEERING

MY RANT AGAINST MALE DESIGN ENGINEERING

I have a 1994 Pontiac Grand Am. The fools designed it so you literally have to climb up and out to get out of the blasted thing. VERY poor engineering. Especially tricky for those of us who aren't anorexic.

I think a lot of the male designers get too caught up in appearance and don't pay attention to function. Example: Women's restrooms, placement of light switches, size of cabinet shelves, on & on & on.

In women's restrooms, the stalls are fine if you're just standing there, but women have to maneuver a lot differently than men, we're generally wider than men, and a lot of times have little kids in there with us too. There is NEVER enough room unless you go to the handicapped stall, then you need a ladder to get to the toilet.

THEN they come along and hang a paper dispenser as big as a spare tire right in the space where your arm goes, so it's dang near impossible to not injure yourself just trying to get your clothes up & down.

They always have the soap & towels five or ten feet from each other/and/or the sink, and light switches are never in a convenient location. (Even in my sister's modular home, the light switches are in the middle of the room, and it's only a few years old!)

I will say they are doing somewhat better with electrical receptacles than they did in the past, but they could still improve on that account too. They are never spaced right, or at the right height. For instance, in the kitchen I have to pull the microwave out to plug/unplug any other appliance. Why they couldn't have placed them two inches higher is beyond me. It's just frustrating as hell.

They put the ones in the living room & bedroom down by the floor, which is fine if you have no furniture, and LOOKS nice, but for those of us that do have furniture, 99% of the stuff in the house is electrical/electronic, so we frequently end up crawling around in the floor, and/or moving furniture, having extension cords everywhere, etc.

When I formerly worked in a prestigious law office, I was in a fashionable and elegant building that the other firms called "the palace". It really was refined, crystal chandelier, curved staircase, etc. Beautiful but not one bit conducive to WORK.

They had installed track lighting, which would be fine at a home show, but sitting at the receptionist desk, you could barely see the page in front of you. I nearly went blind. It was literally THE Poorest lighting I've EVER seen, bar none, and they had spent MILLIONS on the blasted building. Mickey Mouse could have installed better lighting.

When I lived in a former apartment, the upper cabinets were ALL 9" tall! You couldn't even get a box of cereal in there. At first, I thought they must be adjustable, but NO, they are like that for life. I even called the manufacturing company and complained, not that it probably did any good. It was highly apparent that the person who designed them liked things symmetrical, but had NEVER opened a cabinet door in his own house.

I'm STILL angry over that little stupidity. Yes, they LOOKED great, but were totally worthless, you cannot scrunch down every dish, box & can to fit in that pretty little even shelf design. This was a classic example of totally ridiculous and NON-functional engineering!

I don't mean to be sexist, but NO woman would ever design any of these things the way men have, and they would make things MUCH more functional and User-Friendly!