Adaptive Game Bundles: Sapphire Select
by Derek Wilson on June 8, 2005 5:33 AM EST- Posted in
- Software
The Process In A Nutshell (Trial and Purchase)
For every game that is installed, links for trial and purchase are dropped onto the desktop.
Running the trial brings up a screen similar to this one for each game:
From here, we can see how much time our trial has left, play the game a little more, or make a purchase. It does take a little bit of time to bring the game up once we've decided to play it, but other than that, there is nothing different than the normal experience. If we decide to unlock the game, we simply click on the buy option. In order to unlock or buy a game, we do need to have an internet connection.
Note that it is quite obvious how to pay for the game. In order to unlock the title for free with the Sapphire provided code, we must locate the coupon button. This is a nice little text link tucked away to the side.
Entering the code is as simple as typing it into the box that pops up. After this, Sapphire wants your email address for "important" emails.
Summing everything up, we see that our receipt is in the mail and we don't need a CD to play our game. That's definitely a nice feature.
And that's all there is to it.
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xsilver - Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - link
#2 explained why its evil -- I thought it was obvious ----also the fact that people can have their accounts deleted and hence be under the total control of steam --- definitley not the "customer is always right"
Jeff7181 - Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - link
I like Steam... I've never had a problem with it. Not sure why other people have so much trouble.I like GameSpy too... although I wish it was a bit cleaner... it just seems sloppy to me. I like how simple and compact the Steam interface is.
Menoob - Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - link
Sounds good to me. I wouldn't want it to be anything like Steam. There shouldn't a be a need to verify your game everytime you want to play it especially when the game has nothing to do with online gaming.xsilver - Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - link
the easiest way to thwart hackers would be to implement a steam type system which would phone home every so often; making it hard to break as it is constant verification (in return, the games can be updtated via this console too) -- but then that would be evil..... :PI like the idea though, as then it will allow people who purchase video cards being able to expect at least 1 good game, as you will be the one to choose it