Well the thing is PayPal is, as you said, not a bank... why use it as such?

I mainly use it as a mean to make smallish payments on the web (using a prepaid card) and for such it works cleanly, and it ads a little bit of security on my transactions. I prefer giving my card data once rather than every time i buy something.

The problem isn't in sending payments, it's in receiving them. When people send you money, you kinda have to use them as a bank, as they have the money until you manage to get it from them.

I downloaded the demo and it is not precisely my kind of game. It feels kinda like that bridge building flash game, and much like it, I can imagine it gets really frustrating in later levels, so I'm not going to buy it even for 1 cent.

However, what these guys are doing is really nice. Offering their game for as low as 1 cent is a nice move to stop people from pirating it and possibly get some money instead. I think PayPal keeps all the money for small payments though, so next time they should keep a lower limit of one dollar or something like that.

Offering the game for every OS is also nice.

Nefarious types can both charge your account with just the #, or make a withdrawal. Charging is not hard, there are plenty of ways to make a charge with just a bank account number. Withdrawal isn't hard either, as any information the bank asks for to verify your identity can be collected or bought.

Also, in the U.S. your bank account is only protected beyond $500. If your ATM card gets stolen, for example, and you don't report it before charges are made, you could be out $500 and a month's worth of hassle.

Can anybody explain all of the rules for playing? I'm stuck on Chapter 1 Level 4... I can get to the tube, but when I do I'm always short goo balls, even when they haven't apparently been chopped up... Is there a time limit or something? What's the deal? The game is missing a How To Play or Tutorial mode...

You need to build a more efficient structure, as only the goos you haven't used to build are collected in the pipe. That level is much more difficult than the first three and slightly more than some of the others after it.

Ah, that was the problem. Thank you.

There seems to be a difference between the green and black ones as well... AFAICT, the green ones are reusable and the black ones are one-time uses? Finished the first chapter (if the number on the main menu is any indication, I managed +69 balls).

Yup. There are five types of goos, plus item helpers (like balloons). The goos you save can be used to construct the tower of Goo, submitting the size of your structure to their online rankings, and to give the game some replayability.

No, only the Windows, Mac and Linux versions are being offered. The Wii version is being sold for USD 10 (which is half the USD 20 being asked for the PC/Mac ones). Note that the WiiWare version is hailed as the best one because of the multiplayer component (people can just pick up a Wii Remote and start helping or disturbing the original player).

I LOVE THIS GAME. I paid $5 for it and told a friend, who paid $5 for the Wii and PC versions combined. I've already played about three hours and hit the third chapter. But it's 2 am... and moderation is important!

And as for hating Paypal... I don't get it. It's a business. If they want to keep making money, they're going to do what they need to. It's that simple.

Are you reading those signs the Sign painter left there for you? They explain a lot.

I put in -$10, and paypal gave me money.

Same for me on Windows, but AFAIK, the server was shutdown due to this action, because it was overloaded. That, or the fact they're being redone is at fault. Anyway, can't wait till I see the towers of other players!