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Offline Mokura

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Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« on: December 11, 2007, 07:13:45 pm »
Hey, I have a quick question about buying Aquaria.  Is the unlock key or download you get from buying the full version in any way related to personal information, like your name or a credit card?  I was thinking about buying Aquaria for someone, but I'm unsure about this.  Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2007, 07:21:29 pm »
It is related to the name you give when signing up. Give the other person's name to have it personal to them.

The details you must input are like
Name: Blah Blah
S/N: XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXXXX

and the name you put in there appears on the title screen, so it would be a good idea to put your friends name.

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Re: Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2007, 07:25:19 pm »
Is this during the installation process, or the buying process?  If it's just a matter of giving a name when you enter the serial number, I can just buy the game, put the serial and install file in a zip file, and send it.  Sorry if I'm being difficult, I just want to know exactly where to do this so I don't mess it up.

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Re: Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2007, 07:56:39 pm »
No, it's the name you give when you buy it. They email you a "enter this name and serial number" email, so whichever name you enter in the buying-on-the-website phase is the name that will eventually appear on the title screen.

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Re: Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2007, 08:24:38 pm »
So I give my friend's name here:
https://www.plimus.com/jsp/buynow.jsp?contractId=1724988

But use billing information for me.  Is this right?  Sorry to keep bothering you, but I want to make sure I know what I'm doing.  I'm a tad paranoid.  :o
« Last Edit: December 11, 2007, 08:30:53 pm by Mokura »

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Re: Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2007, 09:39:58 pm »
Yep, put in his/her name in the First Name Last Name boxes. It doesn't matter whose info you put in the others.

Just make sure you put your correct info in the card details page on the next page (if you use a card) for security purposes.

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Re: Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2007, 03:37:02 am »
Good post, I know some people were confused about this.  Maybe it should be stickied, even?

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Re: Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2007, 03:38:21 am »
We're also looking into a gift form to make it easier to figure out. Plimus has yet to get back to us on that I think...

In any case if you run into problems you can just contact us and we'll sort it out.

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Re: Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2007, 04:01:07 am »
Ah, but on the next page, it doesn't request "name on card" or anything of that nature.  I don't want to inadvertently trigger a fraud check because the name I'm entering for ordering (my friend's name) doesn't match my name (on my card).

Quote from: Order Page 2
In order to protect our customers from credit card fraud, we verify billing information with your credit card company BEFORE processing your order.
Please be aware that our servers record the unique IP address that a browser transmits when requesting a page download which can be used by law enforcement officials to identify a person committing credit card fraud, even if that person does not provide his or her real name.

About how long do you think it would take before a gift page/option shows up?  I'm not trying to be impatient.

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Re: Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2007, 04:04:52 am »
I dunno, we asked Plimus about it and they have yet to get back to us.

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Re: Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2007, 04:12:08 am »
I dunno, we asked Plimus about it and they have yet to get back to us.

Well, I'll just order now and see how it goes... thanks everyone for your help.

EDIT:  It seemed to go through just fine.  Sorry for bothering everyone.  :-X
« Last Edit: December 12, 2007, 04:24:29 am by Mokura »

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Re: Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2007, 04:56:25 am »
I had a friend try it just last night and it worked fine for him using the other name.  So yeah, it appears this has worked okay for people (though it does seem a bit strange).

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Re: Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2007, 05:00:47 am »
Personally, I thought it would check the name entered for the customer (the name that ends up registered in the game) against the name on whatever payment method.  Seems kind of odd, but it worked (so far).

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Re: Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2007, 05:23:55 am »
I've seen some Plimus stores do it, but I don't know that it's built into their system yet.  We'll let you know when we find out. :)

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Re: Buying Aquaria as a gift?
« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2007, 12:07:07 am »
Is there any way to make a gift purchase of the game, and then later (say, after Xmas) change the email address associated with the order so the gift recipient gets the product update emails?