Re: [GD-General] Protecting our game

[brian h. <bri...@py...>]

> Well, it's a shareware game distributed through internet. 

Then don't worry too much about people bypassing your stuff.

> I just don't want people reinstalling it to play 20 games again.

Who is your target market?  Savvy gamers?  Or more casual players?  If 
it's casual players, then you can use the registry and very few will 
actually bother trying to figure out what key to reset.

If you're targeting hardcore gamers, then piracy will be rampant no 
matter what you do.  The thing I've learned is that past a certain 
point, you're rapidly hitting diminishing returns and your efforts are 
better spent trying to increase conversion rates than reducing piracy.

> I imagine some easy ways of
> handling that, for example, creating a 'secret' file in the system 
> folder...

Do not do that.  You'll only aggravate people that hate programs that 
litter crap all over their system directories, and there's a good 
chance that on tightly locked systems you'll trigger a warning/error 
requiring admin privs.

Brian