I use a Retrode and buy actual cartridges, rather than being locked into Nintendo’s Virtual Console.). *sigh* Ok, I’ve paid for the damn thing and, as much as it hurts, I’ve already spent far too much money on taking the moral high ground for other platforms (eg. Again, why am I made to agonize over a redownload limit and expiry counter on this thing?Īll in all, this screams “Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!” because this kind of out-of-touchness makes me worry about whether they’ll remain competitive enough in the market to avoid going under. The installer acts as if the same download is offered for both trial and paid copies, depending on whether you enter a registration code.In the era of cheap hosting like Amazon S3 and “re-download is better than backup” services like Steam/Origin/uPlay/GOG/etc., is it really necessary to make people with flaky connections worry about whether their download manager’s resume feature will chew up most of their redownloads?.It’s already easy enough and tempting enough for people to pirate it without adding an expiry message so they can’t rationalize it as paying for a booklet of 50 off-site backup coupons. This is retro-emulation stuff with the bulk of it being more than 20 years old.There are many reasons this is a problem: I also made suggestions for a longer-term strategy.įourth, when your selling a game-related product in the era of services like Steam and GOG, this can easily trigger buyer’s remorse: UPDATE: We’re still talking, but I’ve suggested, at minimum, that an explanation of the key’s purpose (unlocking the paid content in a multi-role offline install package) be provided either with or before showing the keys. (Thankfully, the “Forever” in the title does appear to be accurate, as they installed without complaint on the quarantined Windows XP retro-PC that does double-duty as an online activation tester. They’ve passed on my concerns via the B2B communication channels available to them.Īs soon as I saw those, I immediately worried that maybe Amiga Forever and C64 Forever were online-activated products and the installers would stop working if Cloanto went out of business. UPDATE: The seven e-mails are all from their merchant services provider (Avangate) and I received no argument on this side that it’s excessive. Is it really necessary to send three different confirmation e-mails for different stages of the process, rather than just waiting a couple of seconds and sending one combined e-mail?.(Oh well, if Cloanto or Avangate start spamming me, I can just move PayPal to a new alias and delete the old one.) An anti-fraud measure involving them asking me to confirm my PayPal e-mail? What’s wrong with just asking PayPal if I’m a verified user.What’s the point in sending me an e-mail, just to tell me to log into my e-mail account to follow the instructions in the e-mail I’m about to receive? (No joke.) I’m not going to see it until I’ve done what it’s telling me to do!.
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