It works, the zip doesn't need password but the installation window does.
Ugh...I now feel how you feel #2759. It's a pain to help people who can't help themselves.
This is the writer of thread 2759. The complaint you received about the password not working is part of the many, many, many things I consider negative remarks here. This is exactly what I meant when I referred to people MOSTLY replying to complain OR to ask for more games. Such behaviour as the person asking for the password when it was IN PLAIN SIGHT and the person claiming the password did not work are only TOO TYPICAL of the people here in my experience.
In my experience online and in real life, people don't read because they are too lazy. They see 5 lines of text and refuse to go on further. Here, they see lines of text and they don't read. What they do is zero in on the download link and that's it. In real life, they are too lazy to read too. They expect everything, EVEN LIFE to be a case of "a gif sums it all up". I am an adjunct prof at a uni and my undergrads refuse to do the readings, and when I give them a movie of the book to watch, they claim they have short attention spans and can I give them a gif that sums up the plot of the book, the themes of book, how it relates to the course. The department tells me to give in to these undergrads. Ugh.
As an upshot, you get people like the person claiming that they don't see the password and learning to help themselves if they want the game.
In the second case regarding the person who says the password doesn't work. That's a case of people NOT reading past instructions AND not wanting to help themselves. In the past I have stated REPEATEDLY that they should check file size from the download site (such as MF, sendspace, whatever) before pressing the download button and comparing it to the download size of the file once download has completed. But they do not do this. Instead, they complain that it's troublesome to do this when their computers already say download has finished. When I point out their connection could have died halfway and this would result in their computers downloading the file incompletely, resulting in only less than 100% of a 150 mb file (for example) being downloaded, I tell them that an incomplete file results in the zip/rar file failing to unzip/extract successful. BUT they claim checking file size before and after downloading wastes time, gives them more "work" to do instead of "click and download", they never found the need to do so in the past, and they don't see why they should start now.
Even if people heed this instruction to check file size before and after downloading, they don't bother to get new winrar (which is free and easily found on the internet if one searches for it) and use new winrar to unzip the file. When I explain that this is STRONGLY ADVISABLE, they tell me how sad they are that their joy at getting the game has turned sour when they failed to extract the game from the rar/zip file, AND it's troublesome to get new winrar and install it when they already have winrar on their computers. I explain that files zipped/compressed with new winrar can't be opened with old winrar, and this accounts for why their unzipping failed even though they have the correct file size. BUT they repeat the "why should I get new winrar when i already an existing version" spiel. Ugh.
It's annoying to see that after people like me get told off for being unreasonable towards the young who don't know better and don't know how to do things, OR am told off for being selfish for not wanting to help, such behaviour is still present here.