Re: Aching Dreams 2
This is my first post here, and before the questions, I gotta say, it's been interesting reading this for the first time, watching it go from "hype" to "It's almost here" to "If you don't gimme, You'll never hear the end of it" and now, finally to "Thoughts on the game and Q&A with the creator." There is a metaphor for the human condition here, I KNOW there is...
I did survey players of the demo. Here's two important questions regarding your comment.
1. Would you pirate AD2S if you could?
2. Would you rather have an offline version or an online version?
The people that voted that said they would pirate the game (at least they were honest), subsequently made up for most of the people that voted for the offline version of the game.
Seeing this made up my opinion above.
1. Well, I wouldn't, and though that sounds like a BS answer, there is a reason. It's been said in this topic that updates are planned in the future, and I can't see a way to get updates with a pirated copy without getting NAILED in the process. So, yeah, purely covering my own ass on that one.
2. Why not a mixture of the two? A .exe program that you run, put in your UN/PW, and it gets all the relevant info from cyberspace? That would allow you to put backups on different servers, in case your main server crashed/got cut off from the net, so customers could still play their game, no matter what. And it would put a .exe on the hard drive to settle the pounding hearts of the customers that hate paying for a pure online game.
I dunno, maybe not the best choice for a first post.