Re: [Audyssey] LWorks says goodbye to machine based licensing, and hello to a new Judgment day

2009-04-05 Thread Trouble
What is even more ridiculous about renew those keys, is that some want to charge for that replacement. I can see putting up some cash for upgrade, but not key. Those that want it for the key are just plain greedy. If they need cash that bad, bring out another game! A developer shouldn't have to

Re: [Audyssey] LWorks says goodbye to machine based licensing, and hello to a new Judgment day

2009-04-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Kevin, Well, it isn't quite that simple, but it is fairly difficult to keep a determine cracker from cracking a software product. Even assuming a developer makes no mistakes, uses the best known antipiracy security, etc that is no insurence against piracy. The main reason is that if

Re: [Audyssey] LWorks says goodbye to machine based licensing, and hello to a new Judgment day

2009-04-05 Thread Yohandy
Thanks Liam. Really appreciate this. I really wish more developers did this. it avoids lots of headaches - Original Message - From: Liam Erven liamer...@gmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 3:59 PM Subject: [Audyssey] LWorks says

Re: [Audyssey] LWorks says goodbye to machine based licensing, and hello to a new Judgment day

2009-04-05 Thread Constantine
I agree. Especially if the dev doesn't have a lot of time, would be an inconvenience to both him/her and the customers. Good luck and I'm buying judgement day when the new version comes out if I can. contact details: email: tcwoo...@shaw.ca and others msn: the_conman...@hotmail.com skype:

[Audyssey] game piracy - Re: LWorks says goodbye to machine based licensing, and hello to a new Judgment day

2009-04-05 Thread Charles Rivard
It's unfortunate, but true: Pretty much like a residence. If a burglar wants in, the burglar will get in, somehow. --- Gun control only controls the guns of lawful citizens while placing them in control of the unlawful ones. - Original Message - From: Kevin Weispfennig

Re: [Audyssey] LWorks says goodbye to machine based licensing, and hello to a new Judgment day

2009-04-05 Thread Charles Rivard
On charging for a replacement key, I can see the developer's point of vies. They have to take their time that could be spent on further development and programming of games to send gamers a replacement key, so why should we not pay for it? If you buy something from a store, and then you lose

Re: [Audyssey] game piracy - Re: LWorks says goodbye to machine basedlicensing, and hello to a new Judgment day

2009-04-05 Thread Liam Erven
That is exactly what was happening. Certain people, who I won't name names of. Were pirating my games. It's unfortunate, but what can you do? I know that a user based system will make it easier for people to pirate games, but. I want to make the registration process easier for everyone. And

Re: [Audyssey] LWorks says goodbye to machine based licensing, and hello to a new Judgment day

2009-04-05 Thread Liam Erven
That's fine if the game will always take the same key, but what if a piece of hardware cahnges. Some authorization systems are hardware dependent. It's not fair to make a user pay 15 bucks cause they changed a piece of hardware. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org

Re: [Audyssey] Looking for online opponents.

2009-04-05 Thread James Howard
If i could find the games, and make them work, I'd play. On 4/4/09, Ryan Conroy staindadd...@juno.com wrote: Hello, I'm looking for anyone who wants to play Super Tennis, Super Football, Funny Bowling, or Beach Volleyball. If any one is interested, please Email me off list so we can set up a

Re: [Audyssey] LWorks says goodbye to machine based licensing, and hello to a new Judgment day

2009-04-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, That would be ok to charge if it was an ordinary license key and it was lost, but all too often license keys today are tied to a specific computer and specific hardware. as a result it doesn't matter how well you keep your product keys safe any time you have to change a major

[Audyssey] Looking for a couple of emails

2009-04-05 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
Hi all Indeed this is game related, actually about the magazine. I had sent emails off awhile ago to both Josh of Draconus, and Mathew who developed Audio Quake. I've heard nothing back from either person. So perhaps if anyone here is in more direct contact with either of them if they

Re: [Audyssey] LWorks says goodbye to machine based licensing, and hello to a new Judgment day

2009-04-05 Thread Constantine
Wow, that's crazy, charging you the same price for one single key as they charged for the hole OS? Not sure what I'd do if that ever happened to me. It cusks that you couldn't use the recovery partition in that case...this hp had one but I formatted it, not knowing what it was. Sighs. contact