3 Free Games - Men of War, Arma II and Tower Bloxx Deluxe

They did a similar promotion before (free copy of Necrovision Lost Company) that was a bit more low key and they seemed to handle no problem at all.

I guess the problem here is that they've done a promotion with a major national newspaper for multiple free games, including ARMA2 which is a pretty big title.

I suppose the idea was to drum up interest in their service via a loss-leader like this, get people installing their software so they would consider buying from GMG (Rather than just wanting to stick with say Steam), however the trouble is that most users will have had a bad experience. I still haven't been able to load capsule beyond the checking games porfolio stage, so it doesn't fill me with confidence as to how their service can cope with high demand.
 
My friend managed to download ARMA2 using capsule but he says the installed game is just a big file that he can't unpack, any ideas what he needs to do to get in the directory?

As it is he can't really install any mods...
 
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OK guys word of warning.

I've just discovered that while downloading through Capsule, if I have it on the "Games" tab, then Capsule.exe is whoring 10-20% of my cpu. I suspected this was because it is constantly polling/updating the download progress bar thingy.

Switch to the "Settings" tab, and it drops to 0-1% cpu usage as one would expect.

YMMV, but I'd recommend checking this out if like me you like to download stuff in the background while playing other games.
 
Tried to download Arma2, it says I've purchased it but they have ran out of activation codes and will email me within 3 working days with a code. Pretty happy!
 
Finally got this working after 6 or 7 attempts over the weekend, must say I am impressed with the website + software, when it actually works properly it seems very slick and well presented :)
 
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