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Sonarman · 06-25-06, 11:56 AM

Hi Bill
Yes, usually you purchase the game by credit card and download it to your computer enter the supplied serial number. The program then "phones home" to the server which in turn activates your copy of the game. It's an anti-piracy technique to stop multiple installs of the game.

I've got a feeling we will see a lot more of this method of purchase now. It is slightly disadvantageous to the customer, but it will mean we see a lot more niche titles like "Distant Guns" which traditional software publishers would probably see as "too niche" and uncommercial.

Small developers will now get all of the profit making it worth their while. In the traditional publishing model they would probably only get about 5% of the retail price by the time the publisher, distributor and retailer had had their cut.

06-25-06, 11:56 AM	#5
Sonarman The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ayr,Scotland,UK Posts: 1,392 Downloads: 79 Uploads: 0	Hi Bill Yes, usually you purchase the game by credit card and download it to your computer enter the supplied serial number. The program then "phones home" to the server which in turn activates your copy of the game. It's an anti-piracy technique to stop multiple installs of the game. I've got a feeling we will see a lot more of this method of purchase now. It is slightly disadvantageous to the customer, but it will mean we see a lot more niche titles like "Distant Guns" which traditional software publishers would probably see as "too niche" and uncommercial. Small developers will now get all of the profit making it worth their while. In the traditional publishing model they would probably only get about 5% of the retail price by the time the publisher, distributor and retailer had had their cut.