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Re: Kimochi, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!
Oh, I missed that on account of your main points being about the payment processing part (i.e. facilitating the purchase, rather than providing services such as hosting etc). To use the anology provided, if you pay for goods on Steam with Paypal, you don't particularly care if Paypal disappears because Steam is still there.
Permenancy of services could indeed be an issue, but perhaps not as much of an issue as you think. For starters, I'm not sure that Kimochi would be providing these services, although that's more due to the fact that Kimochi has been fairly ill-defined in what they say they're going to provide. Also I'd point out that provided they provide a sufficient number of downloads, it's probably fine. For example, there's a lot of indie games hosted on sites like Sendowl (e.g. Rimworld, Prison Architect before it was a Steam game), but no-one seems to complain too much that Sendowl only provides a limited number of downloads. Finally, any new entrant to this space would have the same limitations, so this isn't a Kimochi specific issue (although I will admit that their difficulty in keeping the forums up doesn't bode well...)
So provided that Kimochi doesn't seek to implement some kind of always-on DRM solution or online features (like Steam), I don't think permenancy is that big an issue.
That wasn't the main part of my point though.
Even if your CC information is safe, spending $50 on some games only for that transaction to be wiped from their database and having no record of it, or it closing down due to not being able to keep the site up and losing access to what you bought, are concerns.
Steam works because you have confidence that it'll always be there and that they likely won't screw you over.
Oh, I missed that on account of your main points being about the payment processing part (i.e. facilitating the purchase, rather than providing services such as hosting etc). To use the anology provided, if you pay for goods on Steam with Paypal, you don't particularly care if Paypal disappears because Steam is still there.
Permenancy of services could indeed be an issue, but perhaps not as much of an issue as you think. For starters, I'm not sure that Kimochi would be providing these services, although that's more due to the fact that Kimochi has been fairly ill-defined in what they say they're going to provide. Also I'd point out that provided they provide a sufficient number of downloads, it's probably fine. For example, there's a lot of indie games hosted on sites like Sendowl (e.g. Rimworld, Prison Architect before it was a Steam game), but no-one seems to complain too much that Sendowl only provides a limited number of downloads. Finally, any new entrant to this space would have the same limitations, so this isn't a Kimochi specific issue (although I will admit that their difficulty in keeping the forums up doesn't bode well...)
So provided that Kimochi doesn't seek to implement some kind of always-on DRM solution or online features (like Steam), I don't think permenancy is that big an issue.