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Aquaria => Support => Topic started by: Lady-Succubus on May 19, 2010, 10:41:14 pm

Title: Will we still need to prove ownership of the game in the future?
Post by: Lady-Succubus on May 19, 2010, 10:41:14 pm: Maybe for further updates? or some other future bonus for Aquaria owners? xD

I was wondering how that would work with the Humble Bundle... since all we got was a download link from the Bundle site itself. :S
Title: Re: Will we still need to prove ownership of the game in the future?
Post by: Alphasoldier on May 19, 2010, 10:51:35 pm: I don't think we have to, Aquaria will probably become freeware shortly after having gone open source, seeing there's not much more to gain from it, or so I think

And any further updates will be made by people working on open source so as said in another topic, there will be a mod site with said patches and perhaps mods.
Title: Re: Will we still need to prove ownership of the game in the future?
Post by: Lady-Succubus on May 19, 2010, 10:53:17 pm: Freeware? But I paid for it. :(

Maybe we could have people own the game before they're allowed to get said mods? :3
Title: Re: Will we still need to prove ownership of the game in the future?
Post by: Xiagan on May 19, 2010, 11:03:52 pm: Quote from: Lady-Succubus on May 19, 2010, 10:53:17 pm
Freeware? But I paid for it. :(

So what? You paid not much for 6 games. and every cent helps the developers to make new games.
I paid more than once for it and if it'd go freeware (which I doubt), I'd donate instead.
Title: Re: Will we still need to prove ownership of the game in the future?
Post by: Lady-Succubus on May 19, 2010, 11:06:20 pm: *blushes* I guess I need to learn to be less jealous. xD
Title: Re: Will we still need to prove ownership of the game in the future?
Post by: Alec on May 19, 2010, 11:11:36 pm: It's not becoming freeware, I don't know why people have that impression.

Open Source is not the same as freeware!

Read: http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Open-source-software-is-not-always-freeware
Title: Re: Will we still need to prove ownership of the game in the future?
Post by: Lady-Succubus on May 19, 2010, 11:14:21 pm: Yay Alec! Now if we ever have to, what do we need to prove our ownership of your wonderful game to you? ^.^
Title: Re: Will we still need to prove ownership of the game in the future?
Post by: Alec on May 19, 2010, 11:19:04 pm: Perform a fire dance, and send it to me as an animated gif. O0
Title: Re: Will we still need to prove ownership of the game in the future?
Post by: Lady-Succubus on May 19, 2010, 11:21:47 pm: I'd probably end up burning myself by accident trying. ._.
Title: Re: Will we still need to prove ownership of the game in the future?
Post by: Alphasoldier on May 20, 2010, 12:48:56 am: Well besides that people were able to get it for 1 cents and that it's becoming open source soon, AKA, half-free, or able to do with it what you want...

Yeah I guess not much.

Not to be intruding on your privacy, but DOES Aquaria still sell?
Title: Re: Will we still need to prove ownership of the game in the future?
Post by: Lady-Succubus on May 20, 2010, 02:02:01 am: Quote from: Alphasoldier on May 20, 2010, 12:48:56 am
Not to be intruding on your privacy, but DOES Aquaria still sell?
I'm curious too. ^.^
Title: Re: Will we still need to prove ownership of the game in the future?
Post by: Qwertyuiopas on May 28, 2010, 01:30:28 am: Well, I think that I might have read that they intend to kep the downloads and thus keys available for as long as possible, and for the statistics to remain real-time and updateable, they must store how much each user paid.

The data is probably there, so it may be possible for the people who organized the bundle to set up a system(maybe a one way key to unique code mapping?) that would allow developers to see if a user purchased without them giving away their download key...

Wolfire has enough information to prove that you purchased(proof: downloads still available, statistics claim to be real-time, from purchased screen you can update your individual stats, the key resender uses your email address), so if they wanted to, they could possibly theoretically have a system where you take a URL from here, it asks you to type in your email, you do, it sends you an email containing a key generated according to specifications, you take that key to aquaria, if the key meets the specifications(and it could possibly encode payment quantity into categories like <5$,5$-10$,>10$) then they could confirm your purchase...

However, all of that is only based on my theories of how much data a wolfire kept, and in the theoretical situation where both wolfire and bit blot wanted to set up such a system...